Gods and Kings: Geopolitics in Sumeria 

In this lecture we follow the geopolitical history of the city states of Sumeria in Ancient Mesopotamia across the third millennium BC.
This lecture follows - Life of Sumeria - City States of 3000 BC • Life of Sumeria - City... - and is part of the series - the Deep History of Civilization : see full playlist here : • Deep History of Civili...
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0:00 Introduction : Political Order in Sumer
5:32 History of Sumerian City States
8:35 Age of Gilgamesh
13:06 New Geopolitical Order
20:25 Ku-Baba, the first Queen of Kish
23:11 Lagash, the Hegemon of Sumeria