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	ooBdoo
		The upper Tigris River valley seems to have been ruled by Sumer, Akkad, and northern Babylonia in its earliest stages; once a part of Sargon the Great's empire, it was destroyed by barbarians in the Gutian period, then rebuilt, and ended up being governed as part of the Empire of the 3rd dynasty of Ur.
		Unlike the situation in the Old Assyrian period, the Anatolian metal trade was effectively dominated by the Hittites and the Hurrians.
		In the Neo-Assyrian period the everyday language of Assyria was strongly influenced by the Aramaic language.
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	Mesopotamia
		The period from about 3000 © to 2300 © is called the Early Dynastic period because it is the earliest time for which historians possess information about ruling dynasties of Mesopotamian kings.
		Gutian kings did dominate part of the south in the late 22d century ©, but little is known about them and the length of their rule is uncertain.
		The period was a productive one for literature, mainly because of the activity of scribes in compiling and systematizing the literature of the past, rather than for any original compositions.
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	UFO.Whipnet.org \| Creation \| History of Ancient Sumeria 1
		The archaeological transition from the Ubaid period to the Uruk period is marked by a gradual shift from painted pottery domestically-produced on a slow wheel, to a great variety of unpainted pottery mass-produced by specialists on a fast wheel.
		The end of the Uruk period coincided with a dry period from 3200-2900 BC that marked the end of a long wetter, warmer climate period from ca.
		Over the large period of time involved, the names inevitably became corrupted, and Berossus' Greek version of the list, ironically one of the earliest to be known to modern academics, exhibits particularly odd transcriptions of the names.
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	gutian
		With the fall of Agade, a period of anarchy ensued.
		The period between the collapse of the Akkadian Empire and the rise of the Ur III Dynasty was one of anarchy, economic disruption and decline.
		The Gutians were a tribe from the Zagros region of Iran.
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	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Black and Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia
		The period is sometimes known also as the Sargonic period, after Sargon (a Biblical form of the name of the founder of the kingdom, Sarrum-kin).
		It was the collapse of this kingdom that the Gutians took advantage of, and a Gutian period of uncertain length marks their control of at least parts of Sumer and Akkad at this date (although the Sumerian city-state of Lagas seems to have remained independent).
		The kings of this Old Babylonian Period (or First Dynasty of Babylon), including Hammurabi (reigned 1848-1806 BC according to the now preferred chronology), sometimes made their official pronouncements bilingually in Akkadian and Sumerian, but as a living language and culture Sumerian was by now obsolescent.
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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Chronology of the Ancient Orient
		Preceding this date is the Gutian period, variously estimated to have lasted between 45 and 120 years.
		In this period the rulers of Kish were Simudarra or Simudar (2399-2369), a contemporary of Sargon.
		The principal points of uncertainty, due to gaps in the text, concern the length of Dynasties IV and VIII; for the reading of the figure giving the length of the former is disputed, and the summary at the close of the latter omits to state its length.
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	Guti (Mesopotamia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gutian kings came to power in Mesopotamia circa the 22nd century BC (short chronology) by destabilising Akkad at the end of the reign of Shar-kali-sharri.
		The last Gutian king was Tirigan, who was preceded by 21 kings, reigning roughly a total of one century (estimates vary between 80 and 120 years, with 91 years often quoted as probable).
		The most remarkable ruler of the Gutian period was the governor of Lagash, Gudea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gutian_period (875 words)

	Ur-Nammu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His death on the battle-field against the Gutians (after he had been abandonned by his army) was commemorated in a long Sumerian poetic composition.
		His main achievement was state-building, although Ur-Nammu is chiefly remembered today for his so-called legal code, which is arguably the oldest surviving example in the world.
		He was known for restoring the roads and general order after the Gutian period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ur-Nammu (204 words)

	akkad
		Gutians invaded at the end of his reign and caused destruction and the break down of communications.
		The invasion was said by the Sumerians to be divine judgement for Naram-Sin's destruction of Enlil's temple at Nippur.
		However, he was the last great Akkadian King and the Gutians were beginning to invade the land.
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	Naram-Sin - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Part of mesopotamian mythology has it that the Goddess Inanna abandoned the former capital of Akkad due to Naram-sin's plunder of the Ekur (temple of the god Enlil) in Nippur.
		In his anger, Enlil brought the Gutians down from the hills to bring plague, famine and death throughout Mesopotamia.
		While this story is mostly mythological, it does suggest that Gutian raids contributing to the downfall of the Akkadian empire began during this period.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Naram-Sin (299 words)

	11. Intro Sumerian Kinglist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In the period between 1845-1854 he discovered and explored the ruins of Nineveh and specially the ruins of the library of King Ashurbanipal, king of ancient Assyria (669-633 BCE).
		The antediluvian period is also seen as the era of divine revelations, such as the invention of agriculture, the invention of writing etc.
		The Early Dynastic period ran from 2900 BCE to 2370 BCE and it is this period for which we begin to have more reliable written accounts although some of the great kings of this era later evolved mythic tales about them and were deified.
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	Ancient Sumer History in Mesopotamia
		They are the Uruk Period -- which saw the dominance of the city-state of that same name -- the Jemdet Nasr Period -- the Early Dynastic Periods (2900-2370 BC) -- the Akkadian Period -- Ur III Period; the entire span lasting from circa 3800 to 2000 BC (A).....
		The history of this period is not widely known and the use by some historians of later literary narratives concerning earlier legendary rulers is questionable (Page 809 2).....
		The wild Gutian hordes were not very qualified for the leadership so the individual cities in Sumer and Akkad fell back to the old city-state (D) localized hegemony.....
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	Chapter 5
		Although the three phases are recognizably distinct, it was at the same time essentially the same civilization in process of development, as seen in such already mentioned features as the type of burials and the use of palettes of stone for the grinding of eye-paint.
		In the north the period approximately contemporaneous with the Uruk period.
		There were projections on the inside walls of the building, and it is noteworthy that the long mud-bricks bore thumb-marks on their upper side, a phenomenon unique at Eridu at this period, the equivalent of the 'frogs' which in modern bricks are intended to hold the mortar.
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	Sumerian History
		Following this period, the entire region of Mesopotamia seems to have come under the sway of a Sumerian conqueror from Adab, Lugal-anne-mundu.
		Following the fall of Sargon's Empire to the Gutians, a brief "dark ages" ensued; however one prominent Sumerian ruler of this time was Gudea of Lagash.
		The Gutians were finally driven out by the Sumerians under Urukhegal of Uruk, who was in turn defeated by Ur-Nammu of Ur, who founded what is known as the 3rd dynasty of Ur.
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	Time will tell of stars that fell... Part Two
		But in the first century of their existence, after a period of experimenting with apostles, prophets, teachers, bishops, presbyters, deacons and the like, they established a well-organized body of clergy possessing wide powers of discipline over the laity.
		The period from the death of Augustus to the death of Marcus Aurelius in
		The sculpture of the later republican period was clearly an importation from the Hellenistic East, but the portraits busts and statues which are the most characteristic form of the Roman sculpture have a realism that reflects the Roman interest in individual personality rather than in idealized representation of human types.
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	Ur-Nammu - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Sometimes called Zur-Nammu or Ur-Engur, Ur-Nammu came to power towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC (perhaps ruling between 2065 BC and 2047 BC short chronology).
		He founded a new Sumerian dynasty, the 3rd dynasty of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, following several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian rule.
		Ur-Nammu is chiefly remembered for his legal code, which is arguably the oldest surviving example in the world, although Urukagina of nearby Lagash also has a claim.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ur-Nammu (196 words)

	The Cambridge Ancient History - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish.
		In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam.
		The dynasty of Agade and the Gutian invasion C. Gadd; 20.
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	Apocrypha: The Sumerians and Akkadians - Chapter 9
		The Gutians were the real beneficiaries of the Akkadian Empire's downfall, although Uruk held out for another 30 years or so before it was the next to fall beneath Gutian rule.
		This is a time period marked as being an era of Sumerian revival, the golden age of the Sumerian era.
		The theology since the Early Dynastic Period built the right to kingship on the acceptance of a council in Nippur, acceptance that was given when the king brought about a military defeat on the present capital.
	bahumuth.chaosnet.org /apocrypha9.html (5587 words)

	People Of Ancient Assyria
		The few inscriptions left by the Gutian overlords are written either in Sumerian or in Akkadian--a Semitic language that was already being used side by side with Sumerian-and the language of the Gutians therefore remains unknown.
		While the Gutian dynasty was undoubtedly established in consequence of the invasion of armed hordes, a more peaceful immigration from the north-east took place after the end of the third millennium.
		In Babylonia the Gutian dynasty was followed by a period often described as the Sumerian golden age, a renaissance under five kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
	www.aina.org /books/poaa/poaa.htm (17783 words)

	Chapter 7: The People, from the Early Bronze to the Early Iron Ages
		At first, post-diluvian dynasties embrace vast periods of time (24,510 years), but as the period in which the writing was composed is approached, more reasonable figures begin to appear (100, 99, 491, 25 years).
		The final years of this period in Palestine are marked by the same decline noted in Egypt.
		Only for brief periods does Egypt exert real influence beyond her own borders, and because these periods affect biblical history, they will be considered in their proper sequence.
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	EARLY WORLD CITIES
		We assume at this point that Sumer did, in that period, form a recognizable system of cities, one whose distribution would in fact tend toward log-normality, that is a full demonstration of the rank-size rule.
		However, the city was sacked and ravaged by the Elamites in -2004, and for that reason its population at -2000 remains uncertain.
		The archaeological evidence for "kingship", such as royal palaces, is confined to the Early Dynastic period, and begins with Kish, and so is the use of the term "lugal" for king, or "war leader" (that dates from about -2700).
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	Assyria - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		One prominent example is the winged bull Lamasu, or shedu that guard the entrances to the king's court.
		The Assyrians themselves were not the greatest innovators in science and culture, but they carried on the cultural heritage from the Old Babylonian period.
		Much of the Babylonian literature, with roots in the Sumerian civilization, is preserved from the Assyrian library of Ashur-bani-pal.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Assyria (3719 words)

	Babel \| Sargon of Akkad
		The Gutians invaded Akkad and the dynasty that Sargon had founded collapsed.
		However, the Sumerian cities (Ur, Nippur, Uruk, Lagash, etc.) remained intact during the period of Gutian domination and actually prospered.
		The Gutian rule ended in 2123 B.C. The ruler of the Sumerian city of Uruk was Utu-Hegal ('Lugal").
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	history of ancient Mesopotamia and the near east (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		As for the dates of the reigns, as a general rule, they are approximate.
		The dates, and sometimes the chronology, of the periods before 2000 BC are open to debate.
		For the period from 900-608, a shift of one to three years would be the most that would change.
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	Early World Cities:Extending the census to the fourth millenium
		We assume at this point that Sumer did, in that period, form a recognizable system of cities, one whose distribution would in fact tend toward lognormality, that is a full demonstration of the ranksize rule.
		For the Early Middle Uruk period Adams (1981:64,71,114,348) also shows Uruk at 70 hectares, and Larak, in the NippurAdab environs, at 50 hectares; here we appear to have s cluster of twothree cities that satisfy our criterion, and form the nucleus, (or embryo?) of an emerging system of cities.
		The archaeological evidence for "kingship", such as royal palaces, is confined to the Early Dynastic period, and begins with Kish, and so is the use of the term "lugal" for king, or "war leader" (that dates from about 2700).
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	Mitanni, Hurrians, Subareans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"For the period when the Indo-Europeans are first known in Southwestern Asia, the historically oriented arcaheologist is primarily concerned with twon, temple, palace and cemetery complexes which, with the exception of the cemetery, are missing in Europe.
		In Mitanni, the lion is the main opponent in the contest motifs of all periods.
		The lion's original victim in the conflict between the wild and the domesticated is the bull.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/contacts/mitanni.htm (6500 words)

	Early history
		This region seems to have been ruled from Sumer, Akkad, and northern Babylonia in its earliest stages, being part of Sargon the Great's empire.
		Destroyed by barbarians in the Gutian period, it was rebuilt, and ended up being governed as part of the Empire of the 3rd dynasty of Ur.
		His son and successor, Tukulti-Ninurta, deposed Kadashman-Buriash of Babylon and ruled there himself, as king for seven years.
	www.archira.com /early.html (521 words)

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		The Gutians (also: Quti, Kuti, Gurti, Qurti, Kurti) were a people of ancient Shar-kali-sharri.
		The last Gutian king was Naram-Sin\'s death, the Guti saw their chance.
		The weak successors of the king were fighting among themselves for the throne, and various provinces were in revolt and eager for nomad help.
	www.millvalleycaus.com /info/Guti_(Mesopotamia) (522 words)

	Mesopotamia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		was a crossroads and melting-pot for vastly different groups of peoples over thousands of years from the prehistoric periods to the Persian conquest.
		Moreover, although the potential productivity and prosperity of the region was the impetus for extensive and prolonged immigration, the area has no real geographical unity, nor any obvious or permanent capital, so that it is in marked contrast to civilisations of greater uniformity, such as
		For short periods the Elamites (who spoke a language unrelated to any other surviving language) were able to control parts of
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	Ancient Mesopotamia / Sumer - Uruk - <Data Minds> - tribe.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Its voluminous surviving temple archive, of the Neo-Babylonian period, documents the social function of the temple as a redistribution center.
		Later it was prominent in the national struggles of the Babylonians against the Elamite Empire up to 2000 BC, in which it suffered severely; recollections of these conflicts are embodied in the Gilgamesh epic, in the literary and courtly form in which it has come down to us.
		Her reign belongs to the "Early Dynastic III" period of Sumer, and she is the only member of the "Third dynasty of Kish".
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