Civilization: Mesopotamia and Egypt
Civilization Surpluses Specialization States Cities—l. “civ” Writing Monumental Architecture
Mesopotamia- “Between the Rivers”
Cuneiform Writing
The Ziggurat of Ur
Bronze bust of Sargon of Akkad c BCE
Stone stele featuring the code of Hammurabi
Mesopotamian Empires BCE
Mesopotamian Empires Sumer BCE –Cuneiform c BCE –Bronze c BCE Akkadian BCE Babylonian BCE –Hammurabi c Hittite BCE –Iron c Assyrian BCE Neo-Babylonian
Israel and Phoenicia, BCE
The Indo-European Migrations
Semitic Languages
Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
Menes 3100 BCE Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Archaic Period BCE Unification of upper and Lower Kingdoms Old Kingdom BCE Giza Pyramids BCE Middle Kingdom BCE Hyksos Invasion 1647 BCE New Kingdom BCE
Step pyramid of Djoser at Saqquara
The Pyramids at Giza
Hatshepsut’s temple in the Valley of the Kings Hatshepsut (1479 to 1458 BC)
Mummy of Ramses II (1279 BC to 1213 BC) Canopic Jars
Ka Statue of Mereruka
Heiroglyphic and Hieratic writing
The Rosetta Stone
Akhenaten (1353 BC-1336 BC) and henotheism