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HIST 2311
REVIEW I (all dates = BCE)
EASTERN BEGINNINGS
Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent
Sumer: cuneiform (c. 3100)
ziggurat
Akkadian Empire (c. 2350-2200): Sargon
Babylonians
Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000)
Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750)
Tiamat, Marduk
Assyrians (c. 900-612): Nineveh, Ashur
Egypt
Old Kingdom: Memphis (c. 2686-2181)
ma’at
pharoah
hieroglyphics, pyramids
Osiris, Isis, Re
Hyksos
New Kingdom (c. 1567-1085): Thebes
Book of the Dead
Akhenaten (1369-1353): Amarna
"Sea Peoples"
Canaanites
Phoenicians
Hebrews
Yhw
Moses: monolatry
covenant
Unified Monarchy
Israel/Judah
“prophetic movement”
Babylonian captivity
Deuteronomic Code
Pentateuch
Persia
Cyrus the Great
Zoroastrianism: dualism
GREEK CIVILIZATION
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
polis
tyrant
Delphi, Olympia
Milesian School: Thales
Pythagoras
Sparta: Messenia, helots
gerousia, ephors
Athens: archons
Solon, Cleisthenes
Persian Wars (490-479)
Classical Athens: democracy
Delian League
Pericles (c. 495-429)
Sophists
Socratic method
Thucydides
tragedians/Aristophanes
Peloponnesian War (431-404)
Plato (c. 429-348)
doctrine of Ideas
The Republic
Aristotle (384-322)
HELLENISTIC WORLD
Alexander (355-323)
Hellenistic monarchies
“golden age of ancient science”
Epicureans
Stoics
mystery cults
Septuagint
Jenkins