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    Uruk phase, walled cities grew and many isolated Ubaid villages were


    abandoned indicating a rise in communal violence. An early king Lugalbanda was supposed to have
    built the white walls around the city. As city-states began to grow, their spheres of influence
    overlapped, creating arguments between other city-states, especially over land and canals. These
    arguments were recorded in tablets several hundreds of years before any major war—the first
    recording of a war occurred around 3200 BC but was not common until about 2500 BC. An Early
    Dynastic II king (Ensi) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh (c. 2600 BC), was commended for military
    exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later
    poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human. The
    later Stele of the Vultures at the end of the Early Dynastic III period (2600–2350 BC),
    commemorating the victory of Eannatum of Lagash over the neighbouring rival city of Umma is the
    oldest monument in the world that celebrates a massacre.[73] From this point forwards, warfare was
    incorporated into the Mesopotamian political system. At times a neutral city may act as an arbitrator
    for the two rival cities. This helped to form unions between cities, leading to regional states. [72] When
    empires were created, they went to war more with foreign countries. King Sargon, for example,
    conquered all the cities of Sumer, some cities in Mari, and then went to war with cities in modern-day
    Syria. Many Assyrian and Babylonian palace walls were decorated with the pictures of the
    successful fights and the enemy either desperately escaping or hiding amongst reeds.
    The Neo-Babylonian kings used deportation as a means of control, like their predecessors, the
    Assyrians. For the Neo-Babylonian kings, war was a means to obtain tribute, plunder, sought after
    materials such as various metals and quality wood) and prisoners of war which could be put to work
    as slaves in the temples which they built. The Assyrians had displaced populations throughout their
    vast empire, however, this particular practice under the Babylonian kings would appear to have been
    more limited, only being used to establish new populations in Babylonia itself. Though royal
    inscriptions from the Neo-Babylonian period don't speak of acts of destruction and deportation in the
    same boastful way royal inscriptions from the Neo-Assyrian period do, this however, does not prove
    that the practice ceased or that the Babylonians were less brutal than the Assyrians, since there is
    evidence that the city Ashkelon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 604 BC.[74][75]

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