Quiz 6 MES Study Set

internationalism, Amarna

Mid 18th Dynasty 1400-1300 BC

• increasing Canaanite insurgency (Internationalism)

• Peak of _______

• _____ period (Amenhotep III, Akhenaten)

Ramesses II

Early Ramesside, 19th Dynasty 1300-1200 (Jaffa heyday)

• imperial resurgence (______ __)

Early Israel

Late Ramesside 20th Dynasty 1200-1100

• gradual decline of empire (_____ _____)

international age, long

characteristic of an _______ ____

• ____-distance (like 1000s of miles), regional interconnectedness (networks)

  • trade

  • correspondence

  • international treaties

  • we know this because of textual evidence in the Mari letters and such

intensive long-distance

Characteristic of an International Age

• mobility

  • royal personnel, armies, mercenaries, etc

  • ________ ____-_____ trade/exchange

    • not just a one-off expedition, this was a happening on a regular basis

    • the empires you passed through would give you protection

    • accountability and security

attested

was internationalism really new in the Late Bronze Age, or is it just better _____?

great powers club

the ____ ____ ____ (1500 BC)

• egypt

• cyprus (alashiya)

• mitanni (hurrian is the culture)

• babylonia is just a bunch of fragmented city states

• hittites in Anatolia

middle babylonian

the international language of communication and diplomacy (lingua franca) is ______ ______ in 1500 BC

map

the Mari Letters helped us create the ____ of the Near Eas

kassites

Babylonia has contracted to city states

• ruled by ______, but just a world of my city states and not that big or powerful

amenhotep IV

Amarna Letters (Akkadian) in 1350 BC

• from Egyptian capital at Amarna (king is Akhenaten (also ________ ___)

• total about 360 Letters

• international correspondence is 60 letters

  • the rest are vessal correspondence

Hurrian

Mitanni was a country in modern day Syria whose culture was called _____

• don’t know a lot about them

Akkadian, 360

Amarna letters were written in ______ in 1350 BC

• From Egyptian capital at Amarna (King of Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV)

• total about ____ letters

• 60 were international correspondence letters

  • the rest were vassal correspondence

Hattusa

the Hittite Archive

• from Anatolia

• 40,000 fragments and complete documents!!