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The West: Encounters and Transformations
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Undergraduate 1
09/22/2011

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Neolithic Age
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What: "New Stone Age"

When: 9500 BC

Where: Middle East

Why: Agriculture and stone tools

 

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Homo sapiens sapiens
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When: 100k-200k yrs ago

Where: Africa

 

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Levantine Corridor
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What: Fertile crescent

When: 9500 BC

Where: Jordan to Euphrates River

Why: communities and food production first appeared

 

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ziggurat
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What: temple

When: 2100 BC

Where: Sumerian cities

Why: worship and sacrifice

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Law of Hammurabi
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What: Code 

When: 2350 BC

Where: Babylon

Why: Social values

 

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Old Kingdom
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When: 2680-2200 BC

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Middle Kingdom
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When: 2040-1720 BC

Where: Egypt

Why: government of Thebes to reunify Egypt

 

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New Kingdom
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When: 1550-1150 BC

Where: Egypt

Why: Ahmose expells Hyskos from Egypt

 

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Amarna Period
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What: religious revolution

When: 1351 BC

Where: Egypt

Why: Akhenaten forbade worship of other gods

 

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Late Bronze Age
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When: 1500-1100 BC

Where: international

Why: Trade boom among nations

 

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Indo-European
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Who: Hittite peoples

When: 1650 BC

Where: Anatolia

Why: Smelting and trade

 

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Sea Peoples
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Who: groups that came and plundered cities

When: 1100 BC

Where: Mycenaean cities/ Hittites

How: Rebellions moving south capturing temples and cities

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Iron Age
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When: 1000 BC

Where: Mediteranean region

Why: Outlasted bronze

 

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jus gentium
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late antiquity
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tetrarchy
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asceticism
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