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The World of (not quite) Late Antiquity

The World of (not quite) Late Antiquity. HIST 1007 9/4/13. Old Babylonian Empire. Hammurapi (1696-1654BCE). Labor Diversification. Not just farmers vs. craftsmen Kings Priests Soldiers Scribes Merchants Domestic laborers builders. Social Stratification. Mesopotamia –

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The World of (not quite) Late Antiquity

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  1. The World of (not quite) Late Antiquity HIST 1007 9/4/13

  2. Old Babylonian Empire • Hammurapi (1696-1654BCE)

  3. Labor Diversification • Not just farmers vs. craftsmen • Kings • Priests • Soldiers • Scribes • Merchants • Domestic laborers • builders

  4. Social Stratification • Mesopotamia – • Awilu – Free land owning class • Mushkenu – dependent farmers and craftsmen • Slaves

  5. The Lapis Lazuli Road

  6. Gulf Trade

  7. Arabian Trade

  8. Neo-Assyrian Empire (r. 934-609BCE) • Ashur – Northern Mesopotamia • Late Bronze Age collapse • Ashur – City and God • Military development • Propaganda

  9. Land of Assyria / Yoke of Assyria

  10. Calculated Frightfulness • Pay me tribute or bad things will happen… • Propaganda and Terror

  11. The Garden Party • An example of calculated frightfulness?

  12. Deportation • Or forced migration… • Over 4,000,000 people • Commemorated in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible

  13. Fall of the Neo-Assyrians • Neo-Babylonians – Chaldeans • Medes – Northwest Iran • Ashur wiped off the map • Dominance is good for expansion… • Bad in the long run…

  14. Qanat Irrigation

  15. Achaemenid Persia (ca. 550-330BCE)

  16. Persian Hegemony • Repatriates deported peoples • Respect for local self-rule and local cultures • Cosmopolitan imperial imagery • Shahanshah – King of kings

  17. Images of Hegemony

  18. Organization under Darius (r. 550-486BCE) • 20 Satraps • 2 Capitals – Susa and Persepolis • Traveling Court – • Persian Aristocracy, Nobles, Central Administration, Royal Bodyguard, Courtiers and Slaves

  19. Zoroastrianism • Zoroaster (1700-500BCE) • Ahura Mazda • Ohrmazd and Ahreman (and Mihr) • Religio-political propaganda • Unite the world in Ahuramazda’s divine order

  20. But I thought the Achaemenids were these guys?

  21. The Persian Wars • 499BCE – Ionian Revolt • 492-490BCE – Darius invades Greece • Battle of Marathon • 480BCE – Xerxes invades Greece • “300”

  22. Archaic Greece (800-400BCE) • Phoenicians inspire advances in ship construction. • 7th century BC = population boom • Urbanization and colonization • Polis – City-state

  23. Hellenes and Barbaroi • Graeciis a Latin term used by the Romans. • Awareness of shared identity… language, religion, lifestyle

  24. How it all looked…

  25. Alexander the Great (r. 336-323BCE) • Macedonia • Philip II • 334BCE – Launches campaign against Achaemenids

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