الملك و هيأته المنفذة في فنون بلاد الرافدين

Abstract EN

Ancient Mesopotamians were able to reach advanced stages of cultural maturity , which the beginning of historical times , and enabled them to established the first political system in the ancient world .

All that aims to organized their lives and advance in the ladder of civilized developments , some researchers have identified the beginnings of this political system , which dates back to the ancient Sumerian periods (Early Dynastic period ca.

2800- 2371 BC.) , or it may be go back to prehistoric periods .

The knowledge of politics and the beginning of its practice have been associated with the existence of human society , or with the emergence of the first major social systems , which resulted from the ways of peaceful coexistence between different families , or the establishment of extensive relations between those families , which ceded some of its sovereignty in favor of social unity , and they took their own decisions in its name .

If we review the history of Mesopotamia in the Neolithic period specifically , the development witnessed in the nature of life and agricultural and social activities , the first regimes did not flourished in the northern cities , but in the southern cities .

The reason may lie in the harsh nature of the country , and repeated flooding there in different times , causing devastation and distraction of settlements or plantations , as well as sandstorms or lack of rain .

That must be , all efforts had to be unified and organized to overcome upon these environmental conditions , all this needs to have a good leader or hero man with special attributes to unite and organize all people , hence the emergence of the first regimes and the beginning of political thought had been began .