WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Uruk, today known as Warka, was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia) situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates River on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates 30 km (19 mi) east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Estimates of Uruk’s population vary wildly, but, by around 4900 years ago, it is thought to have housed more than 60, 000 people, making it one of the oldest cities in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ancient city of Uruk is located in present-day Iraq, on an abandoned channel of the Euphrates River. Uruk gave its name to the Uruk period, spanning circa 4000 to 3100 BCE.