Transcript Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Early Societies in Southeast Asia and the Indo-European Migrations 1 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Civilization Defined Urban Political/military system Social stratification Economic specialization Religion Communications “Higher Culture” 2 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Civilization and the Means of Production Essential element: concentration of wealth Agriculture Control over natural resources Development of ancient civilization not hunter-gatherer economics 3 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Origins and Spread of Agriculture 4 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Mesopotamia “Between the Rivers” Tigris and Euphrates Contemporary Iran, Iraq Cultural continuum of “fertile crescent” 5 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Wealth of the Rivers Nutrient-rich silt Key: irrigation Sumer begins small-scale irrigation 6000 BCE By 5000 BCE, complex irrigation networks Necessity of coordinated efforts Promoted development of local governments City-states Population reaches 100,000 by 3000 BCE Attracts Semitic migrants, influences culture 6 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Sumerian City-States Cities appear 4000 BCE Dominate region from 3200-2350 BCE Ur (home of Abraham, see Genesis 11:28), Nineveh (see Jonah) Ziggurat home of the god Divine mandate to Kings Regulation of Trade Defence from nomadic marauders 7 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Ziggurat of Ur 8 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Political Decline of Sumer Semitic peoples from northern Mesopotamia overshadow Sumer Sargon of Akkad (2370-2315 BCE) Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750 BCE) Destroyed Sumerian city-states one by one, created empire based in Akkad Empire unable to maintain chronic rebellions Improved taxation, legislation Used local governors to maintain control of city-states Babylonian Empire later destroyed by Hittites from Anatolia, c. 1595 BCE 9 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Legal System The Code of Hammurabi (18th c. BCE) 282 items lex talionis (item 196: “eye for an eye”) Social status and punishment women as property, but some rights 10 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Later Mesopotamian Empires Weakening of central rule an invitation to foreign invaders Assyrians use new iron weaponry Beginning 1300 BCE, by 8th-7th centuries BCE control Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, most of Egypt Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (r. 605-562) takes advantage of internal dissent to create Chaldean (New Babylonian) Empire Famously luxurious capital 11 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Mesopotamian Empires 1800-600 BCE 12 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Technological Development in Mesopotamia Bronze (copper with tin), c. 4000 BCE Iron, c. 1000 BCE Military, agricultural applications Cheaper than bronze Wheel, boats, c. 3500 BCE Shipbuilding increases trade networks 13 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Social Classes Ruling classes based often on military prowess Religious classes Role: intervention with gods to ensure fertility, safety Considerable landholdings, other economic activities Free commoners Originally elected, later hereditary Perceived as offspring of gods Peasant cultivators Some urban professionals Slaves Prisoners of war, convicted criminals, debtors 14 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Patriarchal Society Men as landowners, relationship to status Patriarchy: “rule of the father” Double standard of sexual morality Women drowned for adultery Relaxed sexual mores for men Yet some possibilities of social mobility for women Right to sell wives, children Court advisers, temple priestesses, economic activity Introduction of the veil at least c. 1500 BCE 15 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Development of Writing Sumerian writing systems form 3500 BCE Pictographs Cuneiform: “wedge-shaped” Preservation of documents on clay Declines from 400 BCE with spread of Greek alphabetic script 16 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Uses for Writing Trade Astronomy Mathematics Agricultural applications Calculation of time 12-month year 24-hour day, 60-minute hour 17 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Mesopotamian Literature Epic of Gilgamesh, compiled after 2000 BCE Heroic saga Search for meaning, esp. afterlife This-worldly emphasis 18 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Early Hebrews Patriarchs and Matriarchs from Babylon, c. 1850 BCE Parallels between early biblical texts, Code of Hammurabi Early settlement of Canaan (Israel), c. 1300 BCE Biblical text: slavery in Egypt, divine redemption On-going conflict with indigenous populations under King David (1000-970 BCE) and Solomon (970-930 BCE) 19 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Moses and Monotheism Hebrews shared polytheistic beliefs of other Mesopotamian civilizations Moses introduces monotheism, belief in single god Denies existence of competing parallel deities Personal god: reward and punishment for conformity with revealed law The Torah (“the teaching”) 20 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Foreign conquests of Israel Civil war Assyrian conquest, 722 BCE Northern tribes: Israel Southern: Judah Exiles Israel: ten lost tribes Babylonian conquest, 586 BCE Additional exile of many residents of Judah Returned later than century 21 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Israel and Phoenicia, 1500-600 BCE 22 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Phoenicians City-states along Mediterranean coast after 3000 BCE Extensive maritime trade Dominated Mediterranean trade, 1200-800 BCE Development of alphabet symbols Simpler alternative to cuneiform Spread of literacy 23 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Indo-European Migrations Common roots of many languages of Europe, southwest Asia, India Implies influence of a single Indo-European people Probable original homeland: contemporary Ukraine and Russia, 4500-2500 BCE Domestication of horses, use of Sumerian weaponry allowed them to spread widely 24 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. The Indo-European Migrations 25 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display. Implications of Indo-European Migration Hittities migrate to central Anatolia, c. 1900 BCE, later dominate Babylonia Influence on trade Horses, chariots with spoked wheels, use of Iron Iron Migrations to western China, Greece, Italy also significant Influence on language and culture Aryo, “noble, lord” Aryan, Iranian, Irish Caste system in India 26 Copyright © 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Permission Required for Reproduction or Display.