discuss how urbanisation took place in southern mesopotamia and the importance of temple in this process.
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What were the reasons behind the growth of urbanization in Mesopotamia?
Cernowain Greenman
Answered 3 years ago
Urbanization in Mesopotamia and other areas started with successful farming and food storage. The nomadic style of hunting could be abandoned when farming was successful enough to produce harvests that could feed a whole city. Storing grain to be accessed year round allowed a large group of people to be able to stay put in one area.
After that, a diversification of skilled labor could develop, as not everybody had to be out in the fields. And the rise of skilled labor led to commerce and trade.
Trade between rising urban centers was key to strength of the cities. Trade created the rise of wealth for the ruling class of the cities.
Mesopotamia had the advantage of two locally adjacent rivers which helped create a number of cities in the same region. The development of bronze further strengthened Mesopotamian’s Sumer civilization.
Rulers would go to war to protect trade routes, as well as to forcibly take the accumulated wealth of other cities. Unskilled laborers (including farmers) could easily be turned into armies. People living in the rural areas would move to the cities for protection during wartime, and this added to urbanization.
Verbal communication to organize cities became stretched and the invention of written texts helped a great deal. Oral traditions (such as epics and religious stories) were able to become literature with writing. Religious liturgy, music, art, architecture flourished in the city.
It is because of writing on clay tablets that we know more about the Mesopotamian cradle of civilization more so than that of the Indus civilization. When the Sumerian library was burned during war, many of the baked clay tablets survived. Other writing materials did not survive as well.
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