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Overview of Western Civilization• Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)

Sumerians/Akkadians (3000-2000 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

• Greece (1200-200 BCE)Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Classical Age (500-400 BCE)Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)

• Rome (200 BCE – 476 CE)

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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The Tigris and

Euphrates Rivers

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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SUMER

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The Sumerians

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Cuneiform tablets

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Uruk

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Map: City

Walls of

Uruk

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The Great Ziggurat of Ur

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Egyptian Pyramids

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Gilgamesh

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Cuneiform tablet of

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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AKKAD

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Bust of an Akkadian

King (perhaps Sargon)

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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Babylon

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Hammurabi

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Stele of Hammurabi’s

Law Code

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Close-up of the top of the

law code stele:

Hammurabi with the sun

god Shamash

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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The Assyrian Army

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Assyrian Relief:

Impaling Victims

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The beheading of a king defeated

by the Assyrians in battle

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ASSYRIA

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Assyrian Highlands

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Gates of Nineveh

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Overview of Western Civilization

Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)

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BABYLON

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Darius the King of Persia

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Astrological Cuneiform Tablet from Late Antiquity

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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)

Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)

Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy

Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age

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Bull-leaping Fresco: Knossos (Crete)

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The Ruins of Troy

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The Walls of Troy

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Mycenae

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Mycenae

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Lyric Poetry

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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)

Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)

Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy

Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age

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Tyrannicides (“tyrant-killers”)

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The Persian King Darius

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DELOS

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Theatre of Dionysus (Athens)

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Greek Tragedy

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Sophocles

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Euripides

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Athens

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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)

Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)

Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy

Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age

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Philip II of Macedon

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Alexander the Great

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The Dying Alexander

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The Hellenistic Age

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Overview of Western Civilization

Rome (200 BCE – 476 CE)Rome vs. Carthage: Punic Wars

(264-146 BCE)

Roman Revolution (120-31 BCE)Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)Augustus Caesar (63 BCE – 14 CE)

Roman Empire (31 BCE – 476 CE)Pax Romana (31 BCE - 180 CE)

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