CAS AR 100 Lecture 11: Notes 10:19

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100s of kms of reservoirs and dams for irrigation from tigris and euphrates successful agriculture. Massive city at ur: 5000 kya, 34,000 people, massive ziggurats as temples, trade/export from harbor to arabian peninsula, burial of woman with 20 soldiers to protect her in the afterlife. Nippur, girsu, uruk, ur fertilized by tigris and euphrates, different scenery than present-day iraq. Cut down almost all the cedar trees. Lots of writing about floods: gilgamesh, each god had a power and a city to rule over. 2000 bce assyrians dominated mesopotamia and overthrew the sumerians, established babylon. Northern geography: hilly, enough rainfall to farm without irrigation, wild wheat. Southern geography: flat, hot, arid, few natural raw materials. Population increase with the introduction of canal irrigation. Manufacture of hard-fired clay tools (sickles, hammers, axes) Not so attractive for settling early on because lack of resources. Began as small shrines as cities grew, so did temples.

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