Homework Assignment #1

Due on the date of the Exam

Hist 110 Su07

These should be handwritten, stapled and done neatly, lest you spend time with Ahriman.

Section I:

Vocabulary terms: Select 20 of the following terms and write a one paragraph identification that includes the definition, context, and significance of the term

Agricultural revolution Geographic conditioning

Rosetta stone Paleolithic

Neolithic Mesopotamia

Tigris and Euphrates rivers Polytheism vs. monotheism.

Henotheism Sumeria/Sumer

Babylon Akkad

Assyria Lugal

Gilgamesh/Enkidu/Ishtar/Utnapishtam the Faraway

Ziggurat Semitic language tree

Sargon Stele

Enlil/Marduk/Ea/Inanna/Shamash Hammurabi

Third dynasty of Ur Amorites

Hittites Cuneiform writing

Egypt:

Pharoahs and Pyramids Nomes

Upper and lower Nile Afterlife

Narmar/Menes and Zoser Menetho

Ma’at Vizier

Hyksos ca. 1570 Ahmose I

Thutmose IIII

Amenhotep IV becomes Akhenaton; married to Nefertiti

Tutankhamen Hatshepsut

Ba Ka

Coptic Hieroglyphics

Karnak Thebes

Khufu Luxor

Memphis  Ramses II

Assyria = Ashur & Israel

Tiglet-Pileser Ashurnazirpal II

Shalmeneser III Ashurbanipal

 Babylonian Captivity Abraham

Moses Mt. Sinai

David Saul

Ethical Monotheism Shiloh

Ark of the covenant Medianites

Persia

Nebuchadnezzar Chaldeans

Medes and Persians Five near eastern kingdoms

Assyria: divides into Chaldea and Medes

Lydia, Persia Egypt Zoroastrianism: Zoroaster

Cyrus the Great Ahura mazda

Cambyses Ahriman/Ourmooz

Darius the Great Avesta

Xerxes Satraps/satrapies

India and China:

Harrapan Vedic Literature (four Vedas) starting ca. 1000 bce

Mohenjo Daro Brahmanid

Pre/Vedic Upanashid

Aryan Invasion Varnas (Castes):

Yellow River Valley millet

Dynasties in China: Xia (roughly 2200-1766 bce); Shang (1766—1050 bce); Zhou (1050-256 bce)

Mandate of Heaven Oracle Bones

Western Zhou overthrow the Eastern Zhou, king escapes; begins fragmentation

Confucius, Analects Legalists

Ancestor Worship Wei river valley

Outline Study Questions: Write an outline that answers these comparatively, using the civilizations you have learned about so far.

1. Discuss the effects of geographic conditioning on the development of a civilization.

2. Which element of those we listed on the board on the first day do you think is the most important in constructing the infrastructure of civilization; why? Support your answer with examples from different regions

3. Discuss the differences between absolute and conditional law, and how the type of government in a given area correlates to each.

4. Why do you think that the earliest texts are in the types of genres (i.e., wills, religious documents, law codes, inventories) in the areas? What do these texts tell us about each society’s values? Compare the cuneiform tablets that recorded Gilgamesh with the hymns of Egypt and the law codes of Hammurabi as examples.

5. In the era of Empire building, take the examples of Assyria, Egypt (particularly under Thutmose III) and China and describe the methods and successes of each.

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