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    The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the...
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  • (19 mi) east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of...
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    recorded name of a person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley...
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    Sumer (section Uruk period)
    come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500...
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  • Look up Uruk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uruk was a city in ancient Sumer. Uruk may also refer to: Uruk period, the archaeological culture or time...
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    preceding Uruk period and continues into the Early Dynastic I period. Jemdet Nasr Abu Salabikh Tell Fara Tell Uqair Khafajah Nippur Ur Uruk In the early...
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    identified with the Ubaid period, but it is not known whether or not these were Sumerians (associated later with the Uruk period). Dates are approximate...
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    Uruk period. Uruk period "King-Priest" In North Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and...
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    replaced by the Uruk period. In Northern Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid...
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    that thrived during the Uruk period around 4200-3000 BCE.: 40  The city continued to develop into the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) around 2900-2350...
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