T h e A m e r i c a n U n i v e r s i t y o f R o m e HSM 201 Survey of Western Civilization I

1
T h e A m e r i c a n U n i v e r s i t y o f
R o m e HSM 201 - Survey of Western
Civilization I
Session 4 Building the Classical World
Hebrews, Persians, and Greeks.Peoples of the
Mediterranean traditions, cultural uniqueness,
interaction and influencesWars, conquests and
new systems
2

• Q of chapter 2 for the students to discuss
• In what ways did New Kingdom Egypt differ from
  the Old and Middle Kingdoms?
• What were the principal features of the Late
  Bronze Age international system?
• Why did Phoenician cities prosper during the
  Early Iron Age? This development would occur a
  bit later900-800 BC
• What were the foundations of Assyrian imperial
  power?
• In what ways did the Persian empire differ from
  its Near East predecessors? How would you account
  for those differences?
• What developments marked the Hebrew transition
  from polytheism to monotheism? Its political
  consequences. The importance of the Old
  testament, common grounds

3
(No Transcript)
4

• The New Empiresin rapid succession
• A list of Mesopotamian empires and states
• gt Summerians (Ubaid Uruk) 6000-2500 BC
• gt Akkadians 2300-2000 BC
• Indo-European invasions the Bronze age
  innovations Hittites in Anatolia, Mitannis in
  Syria, Kassites in Babylonian Hyksos in Egypt..
• gt Ammorites and the Old Babylonian Kingdom
• gt Assyrian Kingdom 1300-880 BC
• gt Neo-Assyrian Empire 880-600 BC Egypt
• New Babylonian Empire Nabucodonossor
• gt Persian Empire.

5
The International Bronze Age What is the
character of international relations in the
Ancient World?

• 1900-1450 Minoan C.
• gt1628 Eruption of Thera Santorini
• 1600-1200 Mycenaean C. Near East I.S. New
  K Egypt
• Basis of Greek Pol.Org / Gods
• Collapse - The Sea Peoples
• Mycenaean collapse with reverberations in the
  region

6
The birth of the Classical World The birth of
our Western Civilization?
900-800 Phoenician alphabet / Commercial
shipping 800 Renewal (migrations) and growth
of Greek populations 800 From Demos to Polis
and birth of the City State
7

• Q of chapter 3 on the birth of the Greek
  Classical World
• What cultural changes marked the end of the dark
  Age of Greece?
• How did the emergence of hoplite tactics affect
  Greek political norms?
• How and why did the Athenian, Spartan, and
  Milesian poleis differ from each other?
• How were the Greek armies able to defeat the
  much larger Persian forces?
• To what extent was the culture of Athens in the
  Golden Age the product of Athenian Democracy?
• How did the Peloponnesian War influence Greek
  philosophy?

8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)