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23 Cards in this Set
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Palaeolithic
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Old Stone Age
Hunters and Gatherers Not Sedentary No social rank No written records Lack of wealth/storage |
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Neolithic
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Middle Stone Age
Buried and prepared bodies (afterlife?) Language, communication, and knowledge. |
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Neolithic Revolution
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c. 11,000 BC
Domestication of animals and plants Sedentary rise of villages and towns Specialization Trade established |
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Homo sapians neanderthalensis
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Were the first to bury their dead carefully and place funerary offerings in the graves-- the earliest indication of the existence of religious beliefs.
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Stonehenge
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ca. 3,000-1,800 BCE
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. Monolytihic Architecture A solar calendar Heel stone- sun rises on summer soltice. |
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Venus of Willdendorf
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Austria, c 28,000-23,000 BCE
Limestone. Female figurines of fertility?. Emphasized sexual characteristics, enlarging breats and belly. |
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Hall of the Bulls
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Lascaux, France c. 15,000-13,000 BCE, found in dark inner recesses not to be used as decoration.
What it shows us: Believing that gaining control of an animal in a painting would help to defeat it in the hunt. Twisted Perspective |
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Walls of Jericho
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2,000 BC, increased competition resulted in stone wall around the town. Was the first stone structure.
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Ziggurat
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Sumerian religious structures made of bricks built to form terraces.
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Sumer
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"Land between The Rivers"
Southern desert of Mesopotamia |
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Cuneiform
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Wedge of reed writing in flate stone tablets.
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Royal Tombs of Ur
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2550-2450 BCE demonstration of wealth of newly unified Sumerian elite.
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Sargon of Akkad
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Transformed independent city states of Sumer and Akkad into a a much larger political unit: a kingdom/empire
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Hammurabi
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Established Babylon after it was weakend and made it florish. Established the Code of Hammurabi.
Admistrative reforms Religious imperialism |
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Recounts exploits of historical king of Uruk Gilgamesh.
Themes: human vulnerbility, imortality, attempt to change desity or control nature. |
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Hammurabi's Code
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Addressed wide range of legal concerns and their consequences. "eye for and eye"
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Uruk(Warka)
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c. 3,200-3,000 BCE
White Temple and Ziggurat Uruk period Description: Perhaps dedicated to the sky god AN, the temple may have been designe to provide the gods with a mountaintop home in a part of the world conspicuous for the absensce of mountains. |
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The Standard of Ur
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(A Sumerian Banquet)
ca. 2,600 BCE. Description:Panel with shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone. Warside/peaceside, perhaps to celebrat the miliary victory illustrated on the opposite side. Early Dynastic Period |
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Queen's headdress
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Royal Tombs of Ur
Early Dynastic Period c.2,600 BCE |
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Head of Akkadian ruler
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(Sargon or Naram Sin?
Nineveh, Akkadian c. 2,200 BCE Description:Bronze, distinguishes heavy beard, finer hair of the mustache, and the even thinner hair on the head. |
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Stele of Naram-Sin
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Susa, Iran, Akkadian
c. 2,220 BCE Description: Victory, King wearing horned crown, stands beneath symbols of gods, on the bodies of his enemies. |
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Seated Statue of Gudea
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Telloh. Neo-Sumerian
c.2,100 BCE diorite Description: Detailed drapery and deadgear contrast w/ simple face which suggest the humility of this neo-sumerian ruler. |
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Old Babylonian Empire
ca. 1760 Description: Sun god dictationg the law to the king. Ridges beneath god's feet depicts them on a mountain. |
