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Chapter 1—The Prehistoric Past
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The cave drawings go back to at least 30,000 and maybe 100,000 years.
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Paleolithic = Old Stone Age from 2.6 million years ago Neolithic = New Stone Age after 10k years when ice age left
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/index.html
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Caves had some reason for the paintings… hunting, worship, teaching, etc.
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Civilizations develop
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They have found human footprints in South Africa and Ethiopia
5.7 million years ago.
2.5 million years ago these hominid were using stones as tools.
Homo sapiens (one who knows) go back at least 150,000 years.
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Bryan Sykes wrote The Seven Daughters of Eve.
Bryan Sykes
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Venus of Willendorf raises all sorts of issues
about the place of women in the
Paleolithic period.
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The Neolithic Megalith at
Stonehenge in England ca. 2100 BCE
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The Ur ziggurat ca. 2100 BCE
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Μεσοποταµία or Mesopotamia— “the land between two rivers”
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Statues looking maybe at their god at Abu Temple in Iraq.
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Royal Standard of Ur ca. 2600 BCE
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Code of Hammurabi with 282 laws written
in 1772 BCE
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The Gilgamesh Epic ca. 1200 BCE, which makes it earlier than Homer’s The Odyssey or The Iliad.
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The Nile, like the Tigris and
Euphrates, created the civilization
of Egypt just like the one in Mesopotamia.
The Nile is more than 4,000 miles
from Lake Victoria.
“Egypt is the gift of the Nile.”
-Herodotus
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Votive palette of King Narmer (Menes) 3100 BCE He was the first pharaoh to unite Upper and Lower Egypt.
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The step pyramid at Saqqara parallels the ziggurat.
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The pyramids at Giza are also influenced by the ziggurats.
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Parallels between culture and artistic expression:
1. Pyramidal 2. Static 3. Traditional 4. Other worldly 5. Autocratic 6. Unity and continuity 7. Polytheistic with Amon, Re, Ra, and Aten are
various names for the Sun god. Exception: Akhenaten and the El Amarna experiment
8. Osiris—ruler of the underworld 9. Resurrection central for the gods, pharaoh, and
commoners 10. Theocracy with the pharaoh as god’s
representative
NB You will need to be able to compare and contrast these characteristics with the Greeks.
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The left foot is always forward, arms by side,
and a smile. Only the smile will change
over the centuries.
2515 BCE
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2550 BCE
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Old Kingdom 2700-1990 BCE
Confident period until 2200 conflicts Middle Kingdom 1990-1575 BCE
Ever-growing uncertainty about future New Kingdom 1575-1100 BCE
Akhenaton (1379-62) changes religion and art Late Period 1100-500 BCE
Persians in charge
Egyptian Dynasties
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The Egyptian stability is in juxtaposition to the instability of Mesopotamia—
and you see it in their culture, religion, and art.
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Akhenaten and his family ca. 1348-36 BCE
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Nefertiti was Akhenaten’s queen.
ca. 1355 BCE
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King Tut Live King Tut on Saturday Night Live
King Tutankhamen aka King Tut
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And now for a moment of Zen:
The Egyptians had nearly 3,000 years of a centralized societal
control without producing any artistic growth or new ideas.
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China’s geologic climate had changed by 4000 BCE. The Yellow River played a similar part in the development of China like the river valleys in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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By the 221 BCE, the Qin Dynasty started to tear down the old wall separating feudal states within China.
The Great Wall was begun to stop northern invasions.
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The yin-yang symbol is an example of balance… much like the Egyptian’s understanding of balance.
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Ancient map of India ca. 2nd
century BCE.
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The Aryans entered India from the
northwest ca. 1500 BCE.
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The Bhagavad Gita (or Gita) is a 700-verse religious tale as opposed to the philosophy of the Upanishads.
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Krishna and Arjuna display courage in the face of war.
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Upanishads is the philosophy of Hinduism. Brahman (the greatest one or all) and Atman (immortal spirit of all living things) are one .
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Trimurti: Brahman,
Vishnu, and Shiva