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Week 2 (Egypt)
- 2. Overview • c. 4000 – 1000 BC • Mesopotamia – Geography – Urban Life – Sumeria – Sargon • Egypt – Geography – The Pharaoh – Old Kingdom • Pyramids – Middle and New Kingdoms – Hatshepsut – Akhenaten The Great Sphinx
- 3. Mesopotamia • Geography – Raw Materials • Fertile Crescent • Tigris-Euphrates River Valley • Urban Life – 7000 BC – Ubaids (5900 BC) – 4th mil pop inc
- 5. Why Move to a City? Sumerian Votive Figurine, c. 2900 – 2500 BC
- 6. Sumeria, 3200 – 2000 BC • City-states • Lugal – Legitimacy – Dynasty • Redistributive economy – Trade • Polytheism • Classes • Women – Patrilinear • Mathematics • Monumental Architecture Sumerian Votive Figurine, c. 2900 – 2500 BC
- 7. Royal Standard of Ur, c. 2700 – 2600 BC
- 8. Royal Standard of Ur, c. 2700 – 2600 BC
- 9. White Ziggurat, Uruk, c. 3200-3000 BC
- 10. Uruk
- 11. Ziggurat at Ur, c. 2100 BC
- 12. Ziggurat at Ur, c. 2100 BC
- 13. Writing • c. 3300 BC • Cuneiform • Literature – En-Heduanna (2285 – 2250 BC) • IOUs Left: Sumerian Cuneiform, c. 2500 BC
- 15. The Akkadians • Semitic Peoples • The Akkadian Empire – Sargon (c. 2340 – 2279 BC) – Naram-Sin (c. 2260- 2223 BC) • Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2125 – 2000 BC)
- 16. Ama-gi
- 17. Some Semitic Languages Akkadian Arabic Aramaic Assyrian Babylonian Canaanitic Hebrew Phoenician Syriac Note: Languages in italic type are no longer spoken.
- 18. Head of Sargon, c. 2300-2200 BC
- 19. Ancient Egypt • Geography – Sahara – Nile River – Cataract – Upper Egypt vs. Lower Egypt – Black Land vs. Red Land • Timeline: – Archaic: 3150-2686 BC – Old Kingdom: 2686-2134 BC – Middle Kingdom: 2035-1640 BC – New Kingdom: 1570-1070 BC – Late Period: 1070-33 BC
- 20. The Pharaoh • Divine Ruler of Egypt • per-ao – “great house” • Roles and Privileges • Ma’at • Bureaucracy • Nomes & Nomarchs • Unification – Menes/Narmer Tuthmosis III, c. 1479-1424 BC, Karnak
- 21. The Narmer Palette, c. 3150 BC
- 22. Narmer Palette, c. 3150 BC
- 24. Old Kingdom • Pharaoh • Bureaucracy – Vizier • Prosperity • Hieroglyphics (c. 3000 BC) – Demotic – Papyrus • Monumental Architecture Tomb of Kaihap, Saqqara, c. 2450 BC
- 25. Hieroglyphics Sarcophagus of Ankhnesneferibre, c. 530 BC
- 26. Rosetta Stone, 196 BC
- 27. Rosetta Stone
- 28. The Pyramids
- 29. Funerary Architecture • Mastaba • Stepped Pyramid, Djoser, mid 2600s BC – Imhotep • Snefru c. 2600 BC – Meidum Pyramid – Bent Pyramid – Red Pyramid • Pyramids at Giza – Khufu/Cheops, Great Pyramid, c. 2551-2528 BC – Khafre, c. 2520-2494 BC – Menkaure, c. 2490-2472 BC
- 31. Pyramids
- 33. The Great Pyramids at Giza
- 34. Ancient Egypt • Middle Kingdom – Nomarchs – Mentuhotep II – Thebes • New Kingdom – Hyksos ascendency – Ramses II, r. 1279 – 1212 BC – Battle of Kadesh, 1274 BC
- 35. Ramses II, Abu Simbel
- 36. Ramses II, c. 1270 BC, Ramesseum, Thebes
- 37. Menkaure and his wife, 2548 – 2530 BC
- 38. Egyptian Society • Class Structure – Slavery • Education • Leisure • Women – Hatshepsut, r. 1490 – 1468 BC Top: Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, c. 1350 BC Bottom: Tomb of Sennedjem, Deir el Medina, New Kingdom
- 39. Hatshepsut, r. 1490 – 1468 BC
- 40. Deir el Bahri
- 41. Egyptian Religion • Polytheistic • Pharaoh and Priests • Temples and private chapels • Afterlife • Book of the Dead • Mummies
- 42. Hunefer, Book of the Dead, c. 1275 BC
- 43. Mummy of Young Woman, Hawara, 1st – 2nd C AD
- 45. Akhenaten: the Heretical Pharaoh • r. 1364 – 1347 BC • Sun worship • Aten • Monotheism • Amarna • Art • Tutankhamen (r. 1347 – 1337 BC)
- 46. Akhenaten
- 47. Akhenaten and Family, c. 1340 BC
- 48. King List of Seti I
- 49. King List of Seti I
Editor's Notes
- Table Description: Semitic Languages, whether still spoken or no longer spoken, are listed.