A Sketch of the Thirty-Seven Identified City-State Cultures

The oldest known city-state culture is that of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, with Uruk, Ur and Lagash as three of the bestknown city-states. They were city-states from c.3100 to c.2350 bc, when Sargon of Akkad conquered Sumer. The city-states arose again briefly after the collapse of the Akkadian dynasty c.2150, but the third dynasty of Ur (c.2100–2000) changed the city-states again into provinces within a larger kingdom. When the third dynasty of Ur collapsed, there was yet another city-state period from c.2000 to 1850 bc1 In Syria in the third millennium bc there was a set of citystates, the best known being Ebla. They were destroyed and disappeared c.2300, but turned up again as city-states in the Middle Bronze Age (c.2000–1700) and a third time in the early Iron Age (c.1000).x

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