| Описание: | Memphis in the Early Bronze Age with some 30,000 inhabitants was the largest city of the time by far. Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Parthia and Persia), Armenia, Anatolia (modern Turkey) and the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus, and Crete). Ur in the Middle Bronze Age is estimated to have had some 65,000 inhabitants; Babylon in the Late Bronze Age similarly had a population of some 50–60,000, while Niniveh had some 20–30,000, reaching 100,000 only in the Iron Age (ca. 700 BC). The KI determative was the Sumerian term for a city or city state. In Akkadian and Hittite orthography, URU became a determinative sign denoting a city, or combined with KUR "land" the kingdom or territory controlled by a city, e. g. LUGAL KUR URUHa-at-ti "the king of the country of (the city of) Hatti". The largest cities in the Bronze Age Ancient Near East housed several tens of thousands. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: |