Dilgam ismailov

The emergence of large tribal alliances, the 
concentration of power in the hands of some influential 
people, the division of society into rich and poor and other 
factors accelerated the decay of the primitive communal 
system in Azerbaijan at the end of the second - the 
beginning of the first millenaries. The first slave-holding 
states appeared in more ancient periods in the Southern areas 
being in close ties with the Eastern culture of Azerbaijan.
 

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III Theme: The Ancient and Early States in Azerbaijan. 
The Atropatena and Albanian Kingdoms 
 
1.The First Tribal Alliances and Initial Public Institutions 
in Azerbaijan. 
2.The Kingdom of Manna 
3. The Atropatena and Albanian Kingdoms 
 
1.The First Tribal Alliances and Initial Public Institutions 
in Azerbaijan. 
 
The class society didn't appear simultaneously everywhere 
in Azerbaijan. The South of Azerbaijan was in the vicinity with 
the slaveholding society of Mesopotamia. Therefore changes, 
happening in Mesopotamia, had great influence on the southern 
territories of Azerbaijan. The early state formations appea-
red in the southern Azerbaijan in the 3
rd
millennium BC. 
These state formations had political, cultural and economic 
relations with city-states of Mesopotamia.
The agriculture and cattle-breeding played an important 
role in the economy of the ancient tribes of Azerbaijan in the 
3
rd
 - 2
nd
 millenniums BC. Rapidly developing cattle-breeding 
separated from agriculture in the third millennium BC; it was 
the first social division of labor. Mountain and foothill areas 
were captured by the cattle-breeding tribes. The agricultural 
tribes settled the fertile river valleys.