Mesopotamia and the East : an archaeological and historical study of foreign relations ca. 3400-2000 BC
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Mesopotamia and the East : an archaeological and historical study of foreign relations ca. 3400-2000 BC
（Monograph / Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 37）
Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-327) and index
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This is a comprehensive study of a wide-ranging subject in the period covering the rise and early development of urban civilization in the Near East. Critically assessing a diverse body of archaeological and textual evidence, it aims to be of use to students of ancient Mesopotamia and a useful case-study for anthropologists, archaelogists and historians with a cross-cultural interest in the role of trade and booty in the emergence of complex societies, the relationship between trade and conquest, the integration of archaeological and textual evidence, and related issues. Throughout antiquity, the fortunes of Mesopotamia were intimately tied to relations with her eastern neighbours. Urban life in the resource-poor Tigris-Euphrates alluvium was heavily dependent on trade in metals, stones and other raw materials from the highlands of Iran, Central Asia and the Persian/Arabian Gulf. ASwell as copper, common stones and other staples, this trade included luxurues like lapis-lazuli found in such abundance in the Royal Tombs at Ur.
In politics too, earlt Mespotamian historyis dominated by the vacillating fortunes of diplomacy and warfare with Elam, Marhasi, Magan and other eastern kingdoms. The warrior kings of sumer and Akhad marched deep into Iranian territory, their conquests celebrated and emulated for millenia after. And the rulers of these lands in turn would seize any opportunity to pillage the rich cities of the Babylonian plain - on famous occasions bringing down the two great third-millenium empires of Agade and Ur. Thus were the two regions locked in a complex and shifting relationship, their broad economic interdependence perenially at odds with a deep political and cultural animosity.
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