@martinesumner2025.bsky.social#HISTORY & 2026
I’m a Canadian 🇨🇦 living upstairs from the USA so watching
📺 The FALL of CIVILISATIONS
🇺🇸 The Fall of CiviliZations*
right now seems apropos
#Podcasts ⚱️
1️⃣ SUMERIANS #8/21
Fall of the First Cities
Inventors of writing & mathematics
(Ur - Cradle of Civilisation - #IraQ) #Sumerians #USA
@historyfiles.bsky.social#Lullubi: far from living isolated from the world, #Kunara built a thriving economy based on #agriculture, then expanded into commercial relations with distant parts.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialJemdet Nasr: this provides the type site for the eponymous #JemdetNasr period in #Mesopotamia history, otherwise known as the #UrukIII period as it succeeded #UrukIV period dominance.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialArina: otherwise referred to as a fortress, this was conquered by #Shalmaneser I in the mid-1200s BC when he campaigned to subdue eight northern 'countries'.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialFirst #Writing System: the first revolution in human communications occurred when the #Sumerians developed a written language, followed closely by a similar system for the Egyptians.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialGutians / #Gutium: one of a number of groups which lived in ancient #Mesopotamia although they arrived late on the scene to occupy the central #ZagrosMountains.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAkshak / #Akcak: this city first appeared in written records around 2600 BC and, during the period of its ascendancy in the 2400s BC, it was at war with #Lagash.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAdab: today's site of #Bismaya / #Bismya - was between Girsu & Zabalam, with its principal deity being the goddess #Ninhursag, not to be confused with Tell Bismaya.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialHamazi: this city was thought to have been located in the W #ZagrosMountains, probably between #Elam & later #Assyria, but recent research gives it a better spot.
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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.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.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.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.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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