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| Olive Oil, Wine, Wool important for trade. |
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| 3000-1500 b.c., Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, Cycladic Sculpture |
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| Earliest Treaty in the World |
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| Egypt vs. Hittite for Levant. 169 b.c? |
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| Frozen kurgan tombs, ca 300 b.c., First example of rug, tattoos on body art. |
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South.
Bronze Age.
Conservative. Same deity. 3thou years of same tradition. Irrigation = important. Steppe terraces. |
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| Jean Francois Champollion |
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| Deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics with use of Rosetta Stone. Deomic, greek, hieroglyphics. |
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| First Intermediate Period Egypt |
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2181-2173 b.c., conflicts.
Political fragmentation. |
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2000-1450 b.c.
Contemporary with Middle Kingdom Egypt |
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Destroyed by eruption of Thera.
Bronze Age Pompeii. Destruction of Minoans b/c no trade. |
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1600-1150 b.c.
Contemporary with New Kingdom Egypt. |
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| Mycenean, deciphered as early Greek. |
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Mainland Greece, Myceneans.
Megalithic.
Fortress, blocks of stone wall. War-like time. |
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| Lots of gold, very rich, 1400-1500 b.c. |
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| Tholos Tombs (Treasury of Atreas): Mycenean |
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| Was thought of as Neolithic. Not Bronze Age. |
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| Megaron (great rooms): Mycenean Palaces |
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| Central hearth, 4 pillars. |
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| Trade copper + tin = bronze. |
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| Bronze Age Turkey (Anatolia) |
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1700-1200 b.c.
1st use of Iron, 1500 b.c., habitual usage. |
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| Boghazkoy (Hattusas): Anatolia |
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| Capital of Hittites, also had seals for trade. |
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| Cliff sculptures, image of Hittite supernatural gods. |
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| Kas (Ulu Burun): Anatolia |
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Bronze age shipwreck, 1350 b.c.
Copper ingots, probably from Cyprus. |
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Iron Age people of the Steppes.
Nomadic pastoralists.
Good on horses. Unconquerable b/c nomadic.
First used felt. |
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Burial mounds: bury great chiefs.
Sacrifice 50 young men and horses.
Richest @ Lower Dneiper River. |
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Contact with Uruk period Mesopotamia.
(B.A.G.)
Badarian period
Amratian period
Gerzean period |
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| Badarian Period: Predynastic |
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4000-3800 b.c.
Copper, mostly stone artifacts. Mummies.
Slate palettes for makeup. |
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| Amaratian Period: Predynastic |
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| 3800-3600 b.c., (Nagada I) |
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| Gerzean Period: Predynastic |
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3600-3200 b.c., (Nagada II). (Uruk period in Sumer).
Copper Stone Age.
Art has boats.
Hieroglyphic writing.
Gerzean knives- flint, pressure flaking. |
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| Archaic Period (Early Dynastic) Egypt |
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3100-2686 b.c.
Began by unification of Egypt under Narmer (Menes), 3100 b.c.
Appearance of nomes.
Spread of writing.
Mud brick tombs at Abydos and Saqqara. |
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| Depicts first king of Egypt, wore red and white crown of Egypt. Marks beginning of unification. |
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| Cemetery of Memphis. Pharaohs. Stacked Mastabas. |
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| 2686-2181 b.c. 4 Dynasties at capital of Memphis @ Lower Egypt. |
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| Step pyramid complex of Djoser, 2630 b.c., designed by Imhotep. |
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Time of Pyramids.
Pyramids of Giza, Great Pyramid of Cheops: Biggest, had boat. 2600.
Mastaba tombs, carved scenes: burial platforms. |
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| Mastaba Tombs: Old Kingdom |
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| For dignitaries of court, carved stelae, carved scenes. |
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1991-1786 b.c.
Shift from pyramid to mastaba.
Not as powerful as Old Kingdom.
Thebes of Upper Egypt become capital, center of worship of Sun God Amun
Shift from Lower Egypt |
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1567-1085 b.c.
Thebes = center.
Akhenaten.
Valley of Kings.
Tutankhamun. |
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Worship of Aten, monotheism, sun god.
Founded site near Amarna, destroyed later.
Wanted to get rid of Thebes.
Father of Tutankhamun. |
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| Valley of the Kings: New Kingdom |
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| Cemetery near Thebes. Where most kings were buried. |
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| Direct son of Ahkenaten (2 kings before). |
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| Female Ruler, wore men's beard. |
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| Ramses the Great, huge Egypt Expansion. |
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| Dead buried _____ of Nile because ____ |
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