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Hussana pottery |
Found over a very wide geographical area Distinctive cream slip with red/brown paint, linear designs |
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Hussana |
Architecture- Larger and more complex than other communities Had storage- this means that had surplus. |
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Samarra |
Architecture- Fortification. Intergroup warfare Practiced irrigation, unlike Hussana who only did dry architecture |
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Halaf |
Stamps showing who made what. Economy, buy and sell First use of clay seals- leads to writing. Evidence of social stratification |
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Half pottery |
Polychrome rather than monochrome Traded up to 600km away |
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Ubaid |
-First culture to move down into the Tiger-Euphrades alluvium prope- due to the development of irrigation agriculture -over time developed into the first towns and temples (ziggurat) |
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Site of Eridu |
5400 BC Home to the water god Enki. Shows importance to irrigation. Population of 5000 Located in Southern Iraq |
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Ziggurat |
Temple Town built around the temple, closest people were most elite Played economic role as well as religious |
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10 ways to make up a civilisation |
-monumental architecture -standardization -long distance trade -writing -sciences -site complexity -specialization -class structure -administrative class -control over surplus |
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Uruk period |
4200-3000 BC First city states Uruk- considered to be the first genuine city in the world More ethnic diversity Military Intensive Agriculture around cities (could control flow to other cities) change from worship of water (Enki) to Eanna and Anu, love war and the sky |
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Uruk writing |
Economic, no poems etc Proto-Cuneiform= Wedge shape Cylinder seals- evidence of administrative activity |
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Uruk Expansion |
Social changes lead to expansion of Uruk styled settlements -Trading outposts -Colonies founded by individual city-states -migrants Uruk tends to dominate the cities surrounding them |
