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Paleolithic:

• Old stone age 

• Before writing 

• Hunter gather 

• Archeology

Neolithic Rev 

• During new stone age, neolithic period 

• Domestication of animals 

• Fertile crustacean brough farming 

• Start of sedentary life and patriarchy 

Polytheism

• Multiple gods 

• Humans and gods helping one another 

• Gods had human characteristics 

• All religions during that time till judaism 

Mesopotamia

• During neolithic age 

• Cites between two river tigris and euphrates 

• Start of cites

  • Sumerians 

    • First civilization 

    • Cites run by indiv. Rulers

    • Invented 

      • Cuneiform 

      • Plow

      • Wheel

      • Orchards

      • Bronze

  • Akkadians 

    • United sumerians cities under one rule 

    • Blue book of imperialism

  • Babyloans 

    • Broke away from sumerians 

    • Hammurabi laws 

      • Made by ruler hammurabi 

      • Showed class system 

  • Assyarians 

    • Descent sumerians-akkadians 

    • Battle prowess

      • Siege tower

      • Invaded babylon, judah

      • Assyrains ruled for the longest and over the biggest territory in the mesopotamia lasagna  

Egypt 

• Civilization created by the nile river 

• Hieroglyphs- egyptian language using pictures 

  • Rosetta stone 

    • Keys to understanding hieroglyphs 

    • Stone with hieroglyphics, greek, and demonic script

    • Founded by napoleon 

• Pharaoh's- divine rulers that were gods themselves 

  • Hatshepsut 

    • First woman pharaoh/hold power

    • Ruled along time with peace and big trade expansion 

Hebrews

• Stated is Canaan 

• Monotheistic 

  • Yahweh

  • Moral monotheism 

• Scripture: text elevated by god 

• Wrote because of genocide and exile so people wouldn’t forget 

Persian Empire 

• Cyrus the great 

• Gave jew local autonomy after defeating them 

• Created irrigation systems  

Minoan 

• Linear A - proto greek 

• History comes from archaeology

• Defeated by tsunami 

• Traded in purple and had a economic monopoly 

Mycenaean

• Linear B 

• Beat the trojans 

• Defeated by drought, sea people, dorian invasion 

  • Sea people

    • Don’t know who or where they came from 

    • Went a raided the mycenaeans by boat

Homer 

• 8/7 cent

• Wrote Iliad and odyssey 

  • Oral composition 

  • First thing written in greek alphabet 

• Iliad

  • About death and war 

• Odyssey 

  • Trojan horse

Hesiod

• Write after homer 8/7th cent BC

• Works and days 

  • “Almanac” of antiquity 

• Theogony

  • “Genealogy” of the gods 

Mythos

• Stories 

• Developed and told over time 

  • Solidified with writing 

• Themes 

  • Kernels of truth

  • Explanatory 

  • Allegorical 

• Comparative mythology

Sappho 

• 630-570 BC

• One of the great lyric poets

• Seen as the tenth muses