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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUruk III / #JemdetNasr: the #UrukIII period which succeeded #UrukIV saw #Uruk itself being fully reconstructed, with Uruk-form tablets disappearing outside of southern #Mesopotamia.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAwan / #Avan: one of the oldest city state kingdoms of #Elam, #Awan arose c.2600 BC, but little is known of its origins and, culturally, #Elamites achieved less than #Sumerians.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUr / Urim: by the #EarlyDynastic III period small farming villages had mereged into a thriving centre of industry, with #Ur being sacred to the god #Nanna / #Nannar.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUruk: this was already a major city by 3300 BC, being here that #Sumerian civilisation seems to have reached its creative and social peak with familiar urban human themes emerging.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialGawra Culture: for about six hundred years this culture flourished in the north and east of #Mesopotamia in competition with much more powerful cultures from the south.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialKish: this city flourished in the full bloom of #Sumerian civilisation during the #EarlyDynastic, at the start of the 2000s BC, and was of major importance before eventual decline set in.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialPriest-King of #Uruk: in the mid-3000s BC there are several #cylinderseal impressions in Uruk, #Susa, & #ChogaMish showing a bearded male figure, possibly the first #priestking.
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@historyfiles.bsky.social#UrukIV Period: at its start c.3900-3800 BC the number & size of settlements vastly & enthusiastically increased, especially in two regions in southern #Mesopotamia: central & south #Sumer.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialShuruppak: enduring for about a millennium, starting in the early #JemdetNasr (3100-2900 BC) & ending during one of many dramatic #Antediluvian regional floods.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialSippar: evidence shows that this was occupied from the #UrukIV period, actually two cities named #Sippar, now known as the #archaeological mounds of #TellAbuHabbah and #ed-Der.
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@historyfiles.bsky.social#Sumerian Effect in #Iran: #archaeologists worldwide had fits in the early 2000s when evidence was found of a long-lived culture with a vast network of societies & early cities.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialLarak: location unknown, but believed to have been on the west bank of the #Tigris, east of #Kish & with a patron deity in the form of #Pabilsag, #GodofTrees.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialBad-tibira: second city state in the #Antediluvian #Sumerian king list, #Badtibira was on the #IturungalCanal, near #Umma, now the site of #TellMadineh.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialEridu: one of five cities built before the #GreatFlood according to Sumerian mythology, #Eridu was founded by the deity named #Enki, known by the #Akkadians as #Ea, #godofwater.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUbaid Culture: the crossover between prehistory & early urban civilisation, named after the type site of #Tellal-Ubaid in southern #Mesopotamia, where pottery was found.
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