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First Civilizations

Collection created August 2023

17 Total Resources

17 resources. Showing results 1 through 10.

Chadwick/First Civilizations, 1. History and archaeology as tools
Uploaded June, 2023
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- first civilizations
- book chapter
- archaeology
- mesopotamia
- ancient egypt
- writing systems
- calendar
- dating methods
- astronomical
- lists
- annals
- dynastic succession
- record-keeping
- history writing
- archaeological methodology
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 2. Agriculture and the origins of civilization
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- agriculture
- technology
- writing systems
- cities
- cuneiform
- pictography
- alphabets
- government
- connectivity
- trade
- temples
- war
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 3. The Early Dynastic period
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- sumerians
- city-state
- ur
- elam
- archaeology
- mesopotamia
- flood myth
- royal burials
- tombs
- eschatology
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 4. The Akkadians and the Ur III Dynasty
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- akkadian
- ur iii dynasty
- sargon
- kingship
- law texts
- administration
- architecture
- ziggurats
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 5. Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- mesopotamia
- amorites
- migration
- first babylonian dynasty
- hammurabi
- kingdom of mari
- social stratification
- law texts
- laws of hammurabi
- witchcraft
- family relationships
- women
- gender norms
- hittite
- kassites
- regulation
- administration
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 6. The Assyrians
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- assyrians
- war
- assurnasirpal ii
- hunting
- administration
- sargonid kings
- sennacherib
- nineveh
- monumental architecture
- library of assurnasirpal
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 7. The Last Babylonian Dynasty
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- assyrian collapse
- nebuchadnezzar
- conquest of judah
- babylon
- the medes
- moon god
- assyro-babylonian cosmology
- akitu festival
- cyrus
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 8. Mythology and religion in Mesopotamia
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- mesopotamia
- gilgamesh
- flood myth
- uruk
- animal-human relationships
- nature
- immortality
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 9. Science and technology
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- ancient egypt
- mesopotamia
- divination
- astrology
- calendar
- zodiac
- horoscopes
- pyramids
- medicinal practice
- magic
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 10. Egypt
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- the nile
- geography
- pre-dynastic
- ancient egypt
- trade
- rosetta stone
- unification of egypt

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