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Cities, States, and Living in Ancient Mesopotamia

Tides of History

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A Brief History of Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia was the source of innovations and ways of doing things that have left a long and complex legacy to day. We see an extremely hierarchical society, with a division of labor that went beyond kinship groups and tribal structures,. A sophisticated economy with complex chains of production, imports and exports, even war. And after this, well, cover the long period of war and rivalry between cities that eventually produced the world's first empires.

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