ACS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fertile Crescent, Puabi, Lugal
16 Mar 2018
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Means - land between two rivers (tigris river, euphrates river: modern iraq and northeastern syria, often called the fertile crescent. Need for food created civilization because it leads to organization and coming together to work as a community. End of fourth millennium (3500-3200 bce) we start to see population growth, and people ghting for land and technology . Built walls to protect monumental buildings and resources from enemies. Bringing order and judgement into the world. Tokens sealed inside a ball of clay. Eventually marks were made on the outside. Cuneiform - symbols onto 2d objects 9clay tablet: became simpli ed and easier to follow. Scribes: lawyers track what city is spending money on, they become elites because they control power, they also became involved with religion as the people who record the world of. God and answer questions like who is god why are we here? .
