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Study Guide Chapter 2 Ancient Near Eastern Art
Pictures/Slides from Text
1. 2.2, 3,White Temple, 3,500-3,000 BCE, Iraq
2. 2.4, Female Head, 3,200-3,000 BCE, Iraq
3. 2.5, Statues from the Abu Temple, 2,700-2,500 BCE, Iraq
4. 2.7, Royal Standard of Ur, 2,600 BCE, London, UK
5. 2.11, Head of Akkadian Ruler, 2,250-2,200 BCE, Iraq
6. 2.12, Steele of Naram-Sin, 2,254-2,218 BCE, Paris, France
7. 2.13, Great Ziggurat of King Urnammu, 2,100 BCE, Iraq
8. 2.16, Steele of Hammurabi, 1,760 BCE, Paris France
9. 2.18, Gate of Citadel of Sargon II, 742-706 BCE, Iraq
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2.21, Ishtar Gate, 575 BCE, Iraq
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2.27, Achaemenid Rhyton, 500-300 BCE, Iraq
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2.28, 29 Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes, 500 BCE, Iran
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2.33, King Peroz or Kavad I Hunting Rams, 400-500 CE, New
York, USA
Facts/Information from Text
14.
Around 4,000 BCE, large scale communities began to emerge in
the “Land Between the Tigres and Euphrates Rivers” commonly known
as Mesopotamia.
15.
The earliest known form of writing developed in Mesopotamia
around 3,400-2,900 BCE and is known as “cuneiform”.
16.
The invention of writing marks the change in historical period
from the Prehistoric to Historic.
17.
The first major civilization in Mesopotamia developed around
4,000 BCE and lasted about 1,700 years. This ancient culture is known
as Sumerian.
18.
The earliest monumental architecture of Mesopotamia were squat,
stepped pyramids of mud brick known as "Ziggurats”
19.
The Sumerians were replaced in Mesopotamia around 2,350 BCE
by the Akkadian culture who's art was used as a means of glorifying the
ruler or King.
20.
Akkadian rule began to deteriorate around 1,800 BCE and the
new power to emerge, the Babylonians moved the seat of power from
Akkad to Babylon.
21.
A Babylonian ruler by the name of Hammurabi is best known for
creating one of the earliest known written bodies of law known as the
“Code of Hammurabi”
22.
The ancient culture to assume power after the Babylonians
around 1,340 BCE were the Assyrians, known for building magnificent
palaces.
23.
Assyria fell around 612 BCE and the Babylonian civilization
under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar II flowered briefly.
24.
The famed King Nebuchadnezzar II is credited with the
construction of two renowned structures, the biblical, “Tower of Babel”
and the “Hanging Gardens of Babylon”, which was listed by the ancient
Greeks as one of the “7 Wonders of the World”
25.
The final rulers of ancient Mesopotamia, who assumed power
around 650 BCE, and who's empire spanned the greatest distance of
any civilization up to that time were the Persians.