The priest assumed the service of the gods, and cared for the welfare of his subjects, but the economic life of the country was no longer exclusively (or almost exclusively) in their hands.
=== Vpliv na Mezopotamijo ===Vzpon Amoritskega kraljestva v Mezopotamiji je prinesel globoke in trajne posledice v politični, družbeni in gospodarski strukturi, zlasti v južni Mezopotamiji.