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The 32 pages that link to Uruk, each with the reason it gives.

• MesopotamiaBroader topic: Its monumental buildings and early texts illuminate the region’s urban beginnings.

• Fertile CrescentBroader topic: Its scale and institutions show how settled communities developed into cities.

• Epic of GilgameshBroader topic: Its walls and kingship frame the epic’s opening and closing reflections on human achievement.

• SumerBroader topic: Its growth exemplifies Sumer’s early urbanization and institutional development.

• EuphratesBroader topic: Its growth depended on the riverine landscape of southern Mesopotamia.

• Uruk periodBroader topic: Its expanding settlement and monumental precincts exemplify the period’s urban transformation.

• Sumerian religionBroader topic: Its temples demonstrate how a major city could honor several prominent deities.

• Sumerian city-statesBroader topic: Uruk became one of the earliest and largest urban centers in southern Mesopotamia.

• Mesopotamian city-stateBroader topic: Its early scale illustrates the city-building that preceded city-states.

• Mesopotamian MarshesBroader topic: Uruk’s region depended on the river and wetland resources of southern Mesopotamia.

• Urban revolutionBroader topic: Its growth exemplifies early city formation in southern Mesopotamia.

• History of citiesBroader topic: Its growth provides unusually rich evidence for early urban institutions and scale.

• Descendants of the SunBroader topic: Its disasters and instability bring soldiers and medical staff into the same crises.

• CityBroader topic: Uruk exemplifies early urban growth alongside monumental building and administration.