9 28 15 Stamp seal Warfare Ubaid period potter s building at Tell Kasak Shamali was Indication of specialization specialist craft structures storage spaces pottery kiln workshops Tools and style patterns repeating indicates that these things are being made by less and less people Beginning of a tradition Signature Two identical seals found 100 miles away from each other Small stone clay balls dating back to the Ubaid period Used for slingshot Evidence of organized group violence Uruk 6200 1500 BP Cities Countryside began emptying out Small villages turned into cities People were not food producers Uruk Reorganization of food production processes 8 major urban centers surrounded by small towns surrounded by farming villages urban core Each is a politically separate unit Biggest site in the world until 2000 years ago when Rome grew Big monumental structures 1400 acres Temples Not seeing a castle or palace because the rulers in these cities were the deities who lived in temples People thought inequality was okay if it was through religion Keeps people from rebelling Ziggurat platforms on top of each other in a pyramid shape with temple on top Made of sundried bricks Redistribute economy in these cities Resources are gathered in one central place
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