El proceso de urbanización en la llanura sur de Mesopotamia durante el cuarto milenio, A. C.

Abstract

Early urban societies in Meropotamia are related to the emergence of Sumerian "city-states". In pre-dynastic times, institutions like the temple integrated the economic, social and religious life of the community, leaving political representation to the elders' council and to the assembly.
Afterward, in Early Dynastic I the palace took over many
of there attributions and modified the redist¡ibution network in its profit.