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Thanks again for listening. Though driven more by fear than hope, the desperate flight from the zone of uncertainty

had at least one positive outcome.

Per Aaron A. Burke, the century and a half between 2150 and 2000 BC saw Amorites increasingly integrated, economically, socially, and politically,

into the lands of southern Mesopotamia.

The early post-ocadian period was characterized by Gooty Domination of the South,

Kutik-Nshu-Sheenak's conquest of the north, and a few strong

city-states, like Gudea's Lagosch, who sought their own advantage. All these polities held

productive lands, and all had need of extra bodies to clear the channels, work the fields,

and defend against, or possibly attack,

their neighbors. And all were apparently open to leveraging the Amorites.

The Gute, as recent immigrants themselves, had no real cultural objection.

And the influx may at least partly explain

Gudea's extensive building program and his use of the term shepherd to describe his kingship.

The following period, the age of Ornama, saw large-scale conflicts with the Gute, the Elamites, and rival Sumerian cities,

culminating in the establishment of the Third Dynasty of Ure.

Per Burke, this turbulent era created openings for the political elevation of Amurites already

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