CAS AR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Marsh Arabs, Social Stratification, Urban Revolution
7 Apr 2016
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Ar101 lecture 17: the urban revoluion & the rise of state-level socieies. G: mutually complementary & interdependent members of a community. & crat) & public welfare: temple administrators oversaw major works & vast labor pool; canal upkeep; growing inequaliies in access to food & exoic goods, ur sumerian city-state, royal cemetery (2500bc) not sure if royal. Queen"s tomb (puabi: 3 atendants; 4 grooms; 5 guards (ramp, sled w/ 2 oxen, gorgeous jewelry, lyre, wood chest, bodies throughout pit. King"s tomb (looted: 6 guards (ramp, 6 oxen, 2 wagons, 54 bodies, ram in the thicket famous symbol, game board, standard of ur funcion unknown, great death pit funcion not known. Willingly sacriiced: uruk period (4100-2900bc) dominance of uruk (city, 1000 acres; mud brick architecture, great ziggurat & associated workshops & storage magazines. Temple & granary as a place of concentraion of social surplus.
