Settlement and Migration in South West Asia

Gilgamesh

Themes Enkidu origins: settlement and migration cultural personalities

Complex Urban Societies

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• where and when: map
  


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• Implications:
• change and continuity
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• cultural
• social
  
• political
  
• gender
  

South West Asia: Land of Change and Diversity on the Tigris and Euphrates

• Environment: map*
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• Development
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• timeline T&D p. 56
• empires map*
• Ziggurat of Ur: Sumerian Ur-Nammu, 3rd Dynasty of Ur (2125-2027 BCE) and Neo Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar II's son Nabonidas 6th cen BCE




• Sumerian Culture

• agriculture



• economy and urban life



• kingship and law: Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.E.) stele; cuneiform
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• worldview: Utnapishtim

Migration and Identity

• Indo-European migration (map*)


• Semites: Hebrews/Israelites/Jews
• Environment (map*)


• Development
  • ethnogenesis
  
  
  • habiru
  
  
  • Patriarchs (19th-16th cen. BCE): Abraham
  
  
  • Exodus, Promised Land and tribes
  
  
  • God: covenant and law
  
  
  • kingship: David and Solomon; map; Solomon's temple
  
  
• Worldview
• pilgrimage to settlement to kingship: Solomon and Phoenicians Encounters, p. 73


• relations with others: 1 Kings T&E p. 51

Conclusions

• migration and settlement


• identity and culture


• next lecture: Africa T&E ch.3