002 - Surplus Food, Big Buildings, and Power Hungry Lugals
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. Show Notes Support the Podcast
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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.