2)+Events+and+Leaders+-+Sumer+Rise

** **EVENTS AND LEADERS:**  ×  First bicameral congress in 3000BC  ×  Consisted of two houses, “senate” (assembly of elders) and “lower house” (assembly of arms-bearing male citizens)  ×  War congress called together on the issue of war or peace between Kish and Uruk.  ×  Kish ’s ruler was Agga  ×  Uruk’s was Gilgamesh  ×  Uruk held first congress  ×  Lower house called for war  ×  Senate called for peace  ×  King declared lower house right  ×  Gilgamesh formed friendship with Agga before war could break  ×  many city-states all vying for power at same time  ×  constant wars ×  Kish (Tell al-Uhaimer), Uruk , Ur (al-Mukayyar), Sippar, Akshak, Larak, Nippur, Adab, Umma, Lagash (Tello), Bad-Tabira, Larsa. ×  All major city states by 3rd millennium BC   ×   Epic of Gilgamesh ×  Sargon  ×  first recorded war between Lagash & Umma in c. 2525 BC  ×   one city-state usually had power at time  ×  Old Sumerian Age (three dynasties)  ×  Kish, Early Dynastic Period 1, the Golden Age (2900-2700 BC) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Important city <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Centre of first Sumerian dynasty <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  First big building in Kish was palace instead of temple <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  King in power not high priest <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Uruk, Early Dynastic Period 2, the Heroic Age (2700-2500BC) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Modern Warka <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Enmerkar, king of Uruk and Kullub named “he who build Uruk” known from two epics <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  According to legend Enmerkar was first to write on clay tablets <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Lugalbanda was third king <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Gilgamesh grandson of Enmerkar, famous through Gilgamesh-epic <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Gilgamesh made walls around Uruk <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Ur and Lagash, Early Dynastic 3 (2600-2350 BC) <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Ur has dominance in this era. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Lagash extreme south of Mesopotamia
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