uruk in English

noun
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an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, northwest of Ur, one of the greatest cities of Sumer. Built in the 5th millennium bc , it is associated with the hero Gilgamesh.

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1. My fighting Uruk-hai whom do you serve?

2. My fighting Uruk-hai... whom do you serve?

3. The Sumerian city-states rose to power during the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods.

4. (Both Enmerkar and Gilgamesh are credited with having built the walls of Uruk). c.

5. The Assyrians returned the next year to Babylonia and plundered the gods of Uruk.

6. Uruk was a walled city with an extensive canal system and several monumental temples, called ziggurats.

7. There was little evidence of organized warfare or professional soldiers during the Uruk period, and towns were generally unwalled.

8. The earliest record of fat-tailed sheep is found in ancient Uruk (3000 BC) and Ur (2400 BC) on stone vessels and mosaics.

9. Sumerian cities during the Uruk period were probably theocratic and were most likely headed by a priest-king (ensi), assisted by a council of elders, including both men and women.

10. Assyriology and the Bible offers essays that focus on specific figures (Josiah), texts (Genesis 28.10-22, the Uruk Prophecy), or periods (Persian period in biblical historiography) (Grabbe, Handy, Hurowitz, Scurlock)

11. Babylonia (băbĭlō`nēə), ancient empire of Mesopotamia.The name is sometimes given to the whole civilization of S Mesopotamia, including the states established by the city rulers of Lagash, Akkad (or Agade), Uruk, and Ur in the 3d millennium B.C