Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each Uruk feature: evidence of a city or a large village?
Groups: Evidence of a city · Consistent with a large village
- Family-scale craft production
- Mass-produced bevel-rim bowls suggesting rationed labour
- Cylinder seals marking ownership
- Monumental temple architecture
- A population near 40,000
- Household grain storage
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- Rationed labour and formal ownership marks are not village features.
- Scale alone is not what distinguishes the two.
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Evidence of a city: Monumental temple architecture, Mass-produced bevel-rim bowls suggesting rationed labour, Cylinder seals marking ownership, A population near 40,000
Consistent with a large village: Household grain storage, Family-scale craft production
Why
Rationed labour, monumental building, and formal ownership marks are not a village scaled up, they are a different kind of thing, and Uruk was the first one anybody had ever seen.
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