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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