The Maritime History Podcast
002 - Surplus Food, Big Buildings, and Power Hungry Lugals
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:20:18
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Sinopsis
We'll witness the expansion of Sumer from a scattered farming society into the world’s first true civilization and see how society became less egalitarian with the emergence of a ruling class. Then, surplus grain and the ambitions of the rulers combined to spur on long distance trade that reached south into the Persian Gulf and beyond.