Western Civilization - History Of European Society

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CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. The First Europeans: The Paleolithic Era III. The Neolithic Revolution IV. Mesopotamia: The ...

2 Chapter 1 About thirty thousand years ago the Neanderthals were abruptly superseded by people who were physi- cally identical ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 3 the Aegean by 5000 B.C. and from the Balkans up the Danube and in ...

4 Chapter 1 and in people of mature years (aged thirty to fifty), men may have outnumbered women, primarily because so many wome ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 5 The advent of metallurgy provides a more dramatic example of occu ...

6Chapter 1 and administrative structures based upon high popula- tion densities and the production of substantial wealth. In mos ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 7 within the borders of modern Iraq. Summer high tem- peratures rea ...

8 Chapter 1 An organized priesthood served in the great raised temple or ziggurat that dominated the town. The zig- gurat was a ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 9 The Sumerians, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria Even with written re ...

10 Chapter 1 carelessness. Contracts governed everything from marriage to interest rates and could not be broken without paying ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 11 was therefore a recurring theme in Babylonian litera- ture. Even ...

12 Chapter 1 Kingdom (1567–525 B.C.). The terms old, middle,and newdo not necessarily reflect progress. Some of Egypt’s greatest ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 13 with writing. The Egyptians also built spacious palaces for the ...

14 Chapter 1 the Egyptians did not adopt the use of bronze until about 1500 B.C., long after it was common elsewhere. Wood was t ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 15 nants or groups of consonants. As in the Semitic lan- guages, Eg ...

1 6Chapter 1 that the Greeks admired the Egyptians for their wisdom and would borrow heavily from them, especially after the est ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 17 times. The women of Sidon were known for their re- markable text ...

18 Chapter 1 along the coast south of Jaffa. They appear to have come from somewhere in the Aegean or western Asia Minor and to ...

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel 19 consolidated the territories between Beersheba and the Galilee i ...