The people who settled in Ur gradually formed a very developed and highly educated civilization. They introduced scripting and gave birth to the world's first literature prototype. They were also the first to construct huge settlement turned into huge cities, magnificent ancient cities with advanced social and governmental structures. And the first such city was the city of Ur. The bible has plenty mentions of that city - either in direct or in indirect senses. As it is said Abraham's idea was to construct a very high tower up to the sky. Stair-stepped pyramid called zikkurat was elevated above the city and was seen for more than thirty-two kilometres far. Public knew that it was seen and observed by their gods. But Sumer did not confine with a single city. Mesopotamian land was divided between several independent cities-states and every one of which had its own governor, law, behaviour and structure of local structure. But all of those cities spoke the same language and had the same scripting which distributed from Ur to the rest of the cities. All those cities had the same methods of sales and unified religion. Every city had its own religious temple, or zikkurates. According to the bible, other written survived data and archaeological digging scientists state that Ur was quite great even in comparison to modern cities, and the place of the most beautiful zikkurat. There is a supposition that all those cities fought with each other for authority and sometimes one governor became more powerful than his neighbour. Modern archaeologists suggest that Ur overcame two such vital periods in its history. The first one was around 2800 years BC, scientists found a royal family cemetery with more than thousand of tombs. Apart from actual subject remnants they found a great many objects of their life. Judging to those objects we can learn the way those people lived, there are many objects for sales, weapons, clay jars with scripts on them and jewellery. Governors had headdress decorated with jewellery and precious metals. Altogether it points to quite rich and prosperity of that civilization of that time. That period ended with conquer by Sargon in 2300 BC. Sargon was the governor of Accad territory, the one which was in the North from Sumer. He was the first who united all the lands into one Empire. He integrated Sumer and Accad territories into one Kingdom, and then he conquered northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia (modern land of Turkey). Sargon ruled for fifty-six years, and after his death his Kingdom was constantly raided and attacked by neighbour mountaineers. Great Empire of Sargon gradually faded and around 2100 BC Sumer regained their former power which is considered to be the second vital period in Ur history.
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