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How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Rulers from the third millennium BC onward protected palace claims on the labor of their citizens from being disrupted by debt strains of the type to which subsequent Western civilization has ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets discovered in Iraq reveal intricate details of how empire was governed
The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...
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The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the third millennium BC, Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true ...
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Shahr-i Sokhta
make this site a rich source of information regarding the emergence of complex societies and contacts between them in the third millennium BC. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 ...
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Kach Kouch, the first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb before the Phoenicians
More in-depth research on the third millennium BC, linking the final Neolithic of the northwest Maghreb identified at Oued Beht to the Bronze Age currently emerging at Kach Kouch, is imperative ...
Looking back on poetry and how we weren’t averse to reading verse
Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...