La Mésopotamie. De Gilgamesh à Artaban, 3300-120 av. J.-C. Rome geographers

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in a tight web of social relations guaranteeing their survival

defined as the capacity of cities to accommodate change and foster possibilities

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La Mésopotamie. De Gilgamesh à Artaban, 3300-120 av. J.-C. Rome geographersBetween arid desert and rich river valleys, brilliant and open civilizations developed. At the very beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing, irrigated cereal agriculture, urban civilization around vast palaces, and the first forms of statehood. Later, as merchant caravans from Anatolia to the Indus Valley traced trade routes and transported metals and precious products, kings had legislation written down and