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Title: Mesopotamia


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Mesopotamia
  • The Earliest Civilization?

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Mesopotamia
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Land between the rivers
4
Natures tenuous bounty
  • The Tigris (right) and the Euphrates

5
The Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar II
circa 600 BCE
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The Persian empire
6th century BCE
7
Sumerian home
  • The typical residence of a well-to-do businessman
  • windowless
  • a central open-air courtyard

8
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

12
Finally, the Achmenids
  • Right the ruins at Persepolis

13
Religious life
  • Question what sort of attitudes might we
    associate with the figures below?
  • Right worshipping the mood goddess

14
Warfare
  • Below the Standard of Ur
  • Right Assyrian frightfulness

15
Warfare (cont.)
  • Right Jewish war captives
  • Below favorite sport

16
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

19
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?

21
Everyday life
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