Transcript Chapter 1 - Leleua Loupe

Chapter 1
Early Civilizations
Mesopotamia &
The Nile
City States of Mesopotamia
Figure 1-3 p10
III. Civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumerian Cities
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Sumerian Cities
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Surrounded by walls.
Mud brick structures
Accumulation of
surplus wealth
Ziggurat – the temple
Excavation of Warka showing
the ruins of Uruk
Kingship
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King believed to be of divine origin
Theocracy – priests and priestesses had
an important role in governance,
gods ruled cities
actual ruling power rested with the king
Royal Standard of Ur, 2700 B.C.E.
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Rise of surplus of wealth led to a more
Militarized society
ruled by a king
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Economy
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Agriculture
Commerce and industry (woolen textiles,
pottery, metal work)
Imported copper, tin and timber
Utilized the wheel that had been invented
by nomads in 3000BCE
Society
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Four Tiered Hierarchy
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Elites
Dependent commoners
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Free commoners
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elites clients who worked for the palace and temple
estates
farmers 90% OF POP, merchants, scribes,
craftspeople
Slaves
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belonged to palace officials, mostly female slaves
to weave cloth and grind grain and to rich
landowners who used them for agricultural and
Social Change with Urbanization
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VIllage
Patrifocal
Concentration of wealth
Stratification of wealth
Sexual morality regulated
Paternity & inheritance
Pastoral
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influences
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around raiding & military
 For some women
participated equally
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Greece & Persia
Sauromatian & Saka
Rode, hunted, went into
battle
Married after first kill
III. Empires in Mesopotamia
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Sargon’s Empire (2340BCE – 2100BCE)
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By 2300 – women & sex trade
2340BCE Sargon, leader of the Semitic
people
 He used former rulers as governors
 Power was a standing army of 5,400 men
 He expanded the empire to include all of
Mesopotamia and lands westward to the
Mediterranean
Women During Sargon
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Could inherit property
Exercised political power
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Played an important role in temple rituals
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Sumerian Queens had seals, occupied
important positions of influence
Enheduanna, Priestess of the Temple of Ur –
Sargon’s daughter
Emergence of “Women’s Work” &
Domesticity
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Slaves & commoners – produced food,
textiles & Ceramics
Women &
Religion
Shamans
Cult Leaders
Goddesses
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Minoan mother
goddess
2800 BCE
Greek Island,
Crete
III. Empires in Mesopotamia
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Hammurabi’s Empire (1792- 1750
B.C.E.)
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Employed an army of foot soldiers (axes,
spears, copper or bronze daggers)
Divided and subdued opponents
Gained control of Sumer and Akkad creating
a new Mesopotamia
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Called himself sun of Babylon, the king who has
made the four quarters of the world subservient
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new capital at Babylon
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Social Changes
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Institutional Patriarchy
Tribute Extraction
Social Stratification – disproportionate
power system
beginning of Eurasian Slave trade
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Society became a political institution that
enslaved numerous members of its population to
provide order and stability for itself
Law codes promoted universal standards
of behavior
Irrigation & extensive military defense
Decline of Women’s status
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Generally
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Devaluation of social freedoms
Denial of claims to the results of their labor
Reshaping of spiritual expression
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Murder of a woman marked down from Capital offense
(2000 BCE) to a fine under Hammurabi code (1750BCE
Work became gender based, women paid less if it was the
same
Right to inherit ended after 2000BCE
Women’s political & religious positions of power and roles
ended by 1000BCE
III. Empires in Mesopotamia
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The Code of Hammurabi: Society in
Mesopotamia (Discussion)
What does the code reveal about culture
and society?
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PP 18-19 of text
Do the codes evidence a “system of strict
justice” or represent a code that is written in
the principle of “an eye for an eye” or system
of equal punishment?
What type of justice system is it?
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Stele of
Hammurabi
Depicts Kings
Divinity
Records the code
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Judges
encouraged men
to sell women &
children to satisfy
debts
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Changes For women
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Right to inherit property eroded after
2000BCE
By 1000 BCE political power passed to
men
Decline of women’s spiritual power
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Myths emerged that recounted legendary
battles between earth goddesses and sky
thunder gods arose
By 1000 BCE no longer permitted to take on
cultic roles such as priestesses
III. Culture of Mesopotamia
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The Importance of Religion
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Understanding of physical environment
Polytheistic
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An – God of Sky (Earth Goddess had originally
been more prominent)
Enlil- God of wind
Enki – God of earth, rivers, wells and canals and
inventions of crafts
Ninhursaga – goddess of soil, mountains,
vegetation
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Mother goddess, mother of all children
Gave birth to kings
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III. Writing & Sciences
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Cuneiform “wedge-shaped”
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Oldest texts 3000 B.C.E.
Writing as a form of communication and
knowledge transference is only 5,000 years
old
Math, Geometry, Astronomy, 12 month
Calendar
Cuneiform
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Developed for record keeping
Scribal education established to produce
professionally trained elite scribes
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Temples, palaces, military, government
Table 1-1 p12
Development of Cuneiform
3100 – 700 B.C.E
The sign for star came to mean
“god” or “Sky”
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IV. Egyptian
Civilization:
“The Gift of
the Nile”
Figure 1-4 p17
IV. Egyptian Civilization:
“The Gift of the Nile”
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A. The Impact of Geography
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The Nile- gentle and predicable
Black land – fertile soil
Red land – deserts to the west and east
Lower Egypt – delta region
Upper Egypt – upstream and to the south
Protected from invasion
Prosperous agricultural economy
Development of trade
Old, Middle & New Kingdoms
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Periods of Long term stability
Strong Monarchical authority
Competent Bureaucracy
Freedom from invasion
Construction of temples and pyramids
Intellectual and cultural activity
Intermediate Periods
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Period between the three Kingdoms
Weak political structures
Rivalry for leadership
Invasions
Decline in construction
Restructuring of society
First Dynasty of Egypt
3100 BCE
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King Menes
United Upper and Lower Egypt
Double Crown Created to represent
unification
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Began the longest civilization in history
Longest home rule in history
Most favorable for women
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Old Kingdom
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3-6th Dynasties, 2686 – 2180 BCE
Capital at Memphis
Kingship: the Pharaoh – divine origin
Kings Family - administrative
Ruled according to principle of Ma’at
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Conveyed ideas of truth and justice, right
order and harmony
Development of 4th Dynasty
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Bureaucracy
Office of Vizier “Steward of the whole
Land”
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Responsible to the King
Nomes & Nomarchs
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Egypt divided into provinces
22 – Upper Egypt
20- - Lower Egypt
Nomarch – or governor administrated and
was responsible to the King and Vizier
Middle Kingdom
2055 – 1650 BCE
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Nomes restructured with boundaries and
obligations to state clarified
Nomarchs became hereditary
officeholders
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Collected state taxes
Recruited labor for royal projects
New concern of Pharaohs for the people
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King Menkaure &
Queen
Invasion my
Hyksos of W. Asia
ended the Middle
Kingdom by 1650
BCE
Hyksos prevailed
with horse-drawn
Chariots
Ruled for 100
years
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IV. D. Culture of Egypt
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Four Tiered Hierarchy
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God-King
Nobles & Priests
Merchants & Artisans
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Extensive trade & international travel
Commoners or farmers
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Paid taxes
Military & labor service
IV. D. Culture of Egypt
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Polytheistic
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Sun God – Atum, Re
Air God – Amon
River and land god and goddess – Osiris
and Isis, born Horus
Osiris – symbol of resurrection and birth
Culture of Egypt - Construction
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Complexes or cities of the dead
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Incorporated Pyramids
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Mastabas
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Larger for kings burial, smaller or family
Rectangular structures with flat roofs, tombs for
noble officials
Tombs
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Rooms furnished and stocked so the Ka or
spiritual body could return to a well preserved
physical body (mummification)
Culture of Egypt – Art and
Writing
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Hieroglyphics – “priest carvings” or
“sacred Writings”
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Developed to record and transmit
knowledge
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Pictographic like Cuneiform
Medical books, literature, record keeping
Children taken to educate as scribes for
royalty and government
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Opportunity to rise in social status
Pictographic writing of Egypt
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IV. E. Egyptian Empire
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18th Dynasty
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Pharoahs used new weapons to throw off
Hyksos and reunite Egypt
New Kingdom 1550 – 1070 BCE
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Most powerful state in the Middle East
Massive wealth displayed by new temples
Queen Hatshepsut
1503-1480BCE
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First of four women to become Pharaoh
Built the great temple Deir el Bahri near
Thebes
Sent out military expeditions
Encouraged mining
Fostered agriculture
Sponsored trade expeditions
Women In Egypt
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Maintained economic agency
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right to inherit property for thousands of years
Monogamous marriage
Could initiate and seek divorce
Women: scribes, bakers, prophets, temple
workers
Women’s political agency
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Queens
Priestesses- controlled territory as virtual rulers,
collected taxes and spent resources
Elite Women could become gods after death,
Kingdom of Nubia
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Akhenaten & Religious Change
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18th C Amenhotep (1364-1347 BCE)
introduced the worship of Aten, god of
the sun disk (Monotheistic Religion)
Changed his name to Akhenaten –
Servant of Aten
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Closed temples of other gods
Lessened power of Amon-Re and the
priesthood at Thebes
Replaced the Capital of Thebes with
Akhetaten “Horizon of Aten” in modern Tell
el-Amarna
Decline of Egyptian Empire
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19th Dynasty under Ramses II (1279 –
1213 BCE) restored Egyptian power
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Regained Canaan
13th Century invasions by “sea peoples”
drove borders to original frontiers
20th Dynasty in 1070 for 1000 years
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Libyans
Nubians/Kushites
Persians
Macedonians