Classical Studies 3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cylinder Seal, Fertile Crescent, Mass Production
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Early middle bronze age: the earliest contacts. Uruk: the first city: the population by the end of the 4th millennium was about 20 000 people, this was up to 80 000 people by 2900 bce, mass production of wheel-thrown ceramics and textiles. Industrialization: cuneiform already in place before hieroglyphics, the first attempts for writing were for accounting which were not meant to be preserved. Invention of the cylinder seal: ziggurat was the focal building of a mesopotamian city, solid platform with a temple on top, legendary city of gilgamesh. Includes the immortal man utnapishtim and the great flood: life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands. Ebla: 2400 bce, located in the northern levant, near modern day aleppo in northwest syria, crossroads between levantine corridor and western route to.