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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Nature’s 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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• The typical residence of a well-to-do businessman– windowless– a central open-air
courtyard
Sumerian home
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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• Nebuchchadnezzar’s 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 history’s 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