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The one glaring and outstanding feature distinguishes itself throughout the whole region. In astonishing contradistinction, to the houses of the common people, Community Buildinga we find massive, huge, spacious and palatial buildings; pyramids and temples in Egypt., temples in Sumer and grand halls in Bharata. Egyptian pharaohs and Sumerian gods were only titulary heads of the people. The leaders of Bharatiya people were also no kings. These palatial buildings existed for the use of the community and belonged to the community. They were the communityhalls of the people.
Common people pursued peaceful avocations. They carried on peaceful internal and external trade. Sumer and Egypt were colonised peacefully. They Early Peaceful Development were not subjugated by military might of the people from the oceans or the mountains of the east. Egypt showed this peaceful progress till the fourth Dynasty. Snefru built a fleet of sixty ships of one type for trade His times were free from wars.1 The Sumerian purposes. civilization was built up from the elements derived from all three sources. al.' Ubaid, Uruk and Jamdat Nasr. The first two colonizers were peaceful people and were not accompanied by military might. The intrusion of the Jamdat Nasr people also appears to be peaceful but they afterwards incurred the hatred of the old inhabitants for their acts of usurpation and violence. People rose in rebellion against them and put a violent end to the regime." The original founders of the Sumerian civilization developed their life in peaceful conditions. These two states later developed their military might. They raised army and navy and invented weapons of war.
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