CIVILIZATION: RIVERS IN MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT
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Themes
- Civilization?
- examples from Southwest Asia and North Africa
- Lecture pattern and thesis:
Civilization
- What?
- concept: civis
- definition =
- city:
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- culture =
- various cultural adaptations:
- How?
- from __________ to __________
- urban centers
- Why?
- balance of ___________ and __________
- cultural implications
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- When and Where?
- 4000-3500 B.C.E.
- _________-__________ civilizations
North Africa: Egypt
- land of __________ and __________ on the Nile
- Environment:
- Development (B.C.E.):
- timeline by _______________
- 3100 unification
- 3100-2600 Archaic
- 2660-2180 Old Kingdom
- 2080-1640 Middle Kingdom
- 1570-1075 New Kingdom
- after 1000: outside domination
- Culture and Worldview
- Key concepts:
- Nile, pyramid, Ma'at
- regularity, continuity, stability, organization, balance
Southwest Asia: Mesopotamia
- Land of __________ and __________ on the Tigris and Euphrates
- Environment:
- Development:
- timeline by __________________
- 3200-2350 Sumerians
- (c 2340-2100 Semites)
- 2350-1600 Babylonians
- 1000-612 Assyrians
- 600-550 New Babylonians
- continuity: Nabonidas and Ur-Nammu Ziggurat of Ur
- Culture and Worldview
- key concepts
- Gilgamesh
- change and diversity
- order and meaning
Conclusions
Comparisons
- Rivers:
- Monuments:
- Concepts:
Civilization
- Why is there civilization and is it a good thing?
- progress?
- the mall
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