Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia

• The Earliest Civilization?

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Mesopotamia
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Land between the rivers
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Natures tenuous bounty

• The Tigris (right) and the Euphrates

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The Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar II
circa 600 BCE
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The Persian empire
6th century BCE
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Sumerian home

• The typical residence of a well-to-do businessman
• windowless
• a central open-air courtyard

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Monumental architecture

• The ziggurat of Ur

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Ur, city of the moon goddess
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Even the Assyrians.
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And the Neo-Babylonians

• Nebuchchadnezzars famous Hanging Gardens of
  Babylon
• one of the seven wonders of the world
• supposedly built for his Persian wife

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Finally, the Achmenids

• Right the ruins at Persepolis

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Religious life

• Question what sort of attitudes might we
  associate with the figures below?
• Right worshipping the mood goddess

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Warfare

• Below the Standard of Ur
• Right Assyrian frightfulness

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Warfare (cont.)

• Right Jewish war captives
• Below favorite sport

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Inventions

• Writing
• from the earliest (below) to the very complex
  (far right)

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Inventions (cont.)

• The plow
• surely one of historys most important inventions

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Inventions (cont.)

• New world peoples did not make this discovery

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Governing a troubled land

• Below king Gudea of Lagesh
• Right temple tribute

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Hammurabi

• The Lawgiver
• From Adler
• How does the Hammurabi Code show that property
  rights were superior to human rights?

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Everyday life