Description
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely referred to as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second one half of the fourth millennium BCE.
In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Morning time of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of brand new economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals in other places in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In the end, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were conceivable in other places. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity during the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it’s these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that in the long run account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than in other places in Southwest Asia or the world.
In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Morning time of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of brand new economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium affected the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals in other places in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In the end, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were conceivable in other places. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity during the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it’s these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that in the long run account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than in other places in Southwest Asia or the world.
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