Uruk - The Cultural Period of Mesopotamia

Uruk would have been the home to thousands, and needed to be governed much like a sovereign state in its own right. The pots excavated during this period strongly suggest that they were constructed using the tournet will technique. It also appears that irrigation techniques had spread out from the fertile crescent as we can see evidence of it at modern-day sites such as yemen's indus valley. Elsewhere in the world, china had developed expert ability in the cultivation of wet rice which was being grown on flooded paddy fields.