title: Urban uprisings in Southern Mesopotamia (24th–18th century B. C.)
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metadata.value: Kozyreva, Nelly V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-31T11:17:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-31T11:17:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.value: Kozyreva N. V. Urban uprisings in Southern Mesopotamia (24th–18th century B. C.). Vestnik SPbSU. Asian and African Studies, 2017, vol. 9, issue 4, pp. 344–364.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2017.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9073
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The history of Great Mesopotamia in early antiquity was to a large extent shaped by the interaction
  of two different cultural and economic groups that inhabited the South (Southern Mesopotamia) and the North (Northern Mesopotamia and northwestern Syria) of the region. The early model of social
  organization formed in the fourth millennium BC in the South was that of a city as an egalitarian
  self-ruling economic system. At the same time, centralized territorial structures of the North were
  governed by hereditary royal power. For almost 1,500 years, when the two models co-existed, the North
  attempted repeatedly to include the southern cities in its own centralized system. But these attempts at
  formal integration for two societies with different systems of power, production and distribution were
  unsuccessful. The urban population of the South, the old elite of the cities in the first place, responded
  to integrationist attempts with recurrent uprisings (24th, 23rd and 18th centuries BC). The uprisings
  were being severely suppressed by the northern central power, but its slightest weakening triggered the
  processes of disintegration of newly made administrative structures and re-establishing of local power
  institutions. The cities of the Southern Mesopotamia then reverted to their traditional existence. This
  pattern recurred continually but after the last suppression of a southern uprising (18th century BC),
  southern resources were depleted beyond regeneration and the cities of the South disappeared from
  the political map of Mesopotamia. Refs 21. Fig.1.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 9; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early antiquity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Southern Mesopotamia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urban systems
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: centralized state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urban uprisings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Urban uprisings in Southern Mesopotamia (24th–18th century B. C.)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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