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12/13/2010 1 MODULE II The Birth of Civilization in Asia TOPIC OUTLINE 1. Antecedents to Civilization 2. Agricultural Revolution 3. Sedentarization 4. Social Stratification 5. Ancient Asian Civilizations Mesopotamia Harrapan Shang 6. Crises of Asian Civilizations during the 1st Millenium BC

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MODULE IIThe Birth of Civilization in Asia

TOPIC OUTLINE1. Antecedents to Civilization2. Agricultural Revolution3. Sedentarization4. Social Stratification5. Ancient Asian Civilizations Mesopotamia Harrapan Shang

6. Crises of Asian Civilizations during the 1st Millenium BC

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1. Antecedents to Civilization

Concept of Civilization vis-avis Pre-history Conditions prior to civilization:PoliticalEconomicGeographySocial

Emergence of civilization

CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION and Pre-History

• Civilization – culture, technology, written history, social organization

• Pre-history – without written history, artifacts

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PREHISTORY• Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age• Time Line : 2.4 million years – 15,000 years

ago

Conditions Prior to Civilization

• Political• Economic• Geographic• Social

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Emergence of Civilizations

• Geography

• Movement and exchange (PGI)

• Climate

CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION• Pristine vs. secondary• Agricultural revolution

– Cultural innovation– Competitive feasting (B Hayden)– Oasis theory (VG Childe)– Environmental Change– Population Pressure

• Sedentarization• Social Stratification

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MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION• SABA (Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians)

MESOPOTAMIA• Fertile Crescent

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MESOPOTAMIA• WRITING & LANGUAGE

MESOPOTAMIA• CITY-STATES

– Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Eridu, Kish– Kings– Ziggurat of Ur

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MESOPOTAMIA

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MESOPOTAMIA

• Gilgamesh (Uruk)• King Sargon (Ur)• Abraham• King Hammurabi • King Nebuchadnezzar

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MESOPOTAMIA• WARFARE

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MESOPOTAMIA

• CODE OF HAMMURABI• Society of Strict Justice• Social Stratification

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MESOPOTAMIAN DAILY LIFE

WOMEN and MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIETY

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MESOPOTAMIA

INDUS INDUS VALLEY VALLEY

CIVILIZATIONCIVILIZATION