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Civilization: Mesopotamia and Egypt

Civilization: Mesopotamia and Egypt. Civilization. Surpluses Specialization States Cities—l. “civ” Writing Monumental Architecture. Mesopotamia- “Between the Rivers”. Cuneiform Writing. The Ziggurat of Ur. Bronze bust of Sargon of Akkad c. 2350 BCE.

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Civilization: Mesopotamia and Egypt

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  1. Civilization: Mesopotamia and Egypt

  2. Civilization • Surpluses • Specialization • States • Cities—l. “civ” • Writing • Monumental Architecture

  3. Mesopotamia- “Between the Rivers”

  4. Cuneiform Writing

  5. The Ziggurat of Ur

  6. Bronze bust of Sargon of Akkad c. 2350 BCE

  7. Stone stele featuring the code of Hammurabi

  8. Mesopotamian Empires1800-600 BCE

  9. Mesopotamian Empires • Sumer 3500-2400 BCE • Cuneiform c. 3500-3000 BCE • Bronze c. 4000-3500 BCE • Akkadian 2400-1900 BCE • Babylonian 1900-1600 BCE • Hammurabi c. 1800 • Hittite 1600-1300 BCE • Iron c. 1000 • Assyrian 1300-612 BCE • Neo-Babylonian 600-650

  10. Israel and Phoenicia, 1500-600 BCE

  11. The Indo-European Migrations

  12. Semitic Languages

  13. Egypt: The Gift of the Nile

  14. Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt Menes 3100 BCE

  15. Archaic Period 3100-2660 BCE • Unification of upper and Lower Kingdoms • Old Kingdom 2660-2150 BCE • Giza Pyramids 2600-2500 BCE • Middle Kingdom 1975-1640 BCE • Hyksos Invasion 1647 BCE • New Kingdom 1539-1075 BCE

  16. Step pyramid of Djoser at Saqquara

  17. The Pyramids at Giza

  18. Hatshepsut (1479 to 1458 BC) Hatshepsut’s temple in the Valley of the Kings

  19. Canopic Jars Mummy of Ramses II (1279 BC to 1213 BC)

  20. Ka Statue of Mereruka

  21. Heiroglyphic and Hieratic writing

  22. The Rosetta Stone

  23. Akhenaten (1353 BC-1336 BC) and henotheism

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