Evidence Of Increased Violence When The First Mesopotamian Cities Were Built

Evidence Of Increased Violence When The First Mesopotamian Cities Were Built

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized administration, trade and culture then caused the ratio of violent deaths to fall back again in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (3,300 to 1,500 BCE). This […]