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Overview of Western Civilization• Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)
Sumerians/Akkadians (3000-2000 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
• Greece (1200-200 BCE)Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Classical Age (500-400 BCE)Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)
• Rome (200 BCE – 476 CE)
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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The Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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Map: City
Walls of
Uruk
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The Great Ziggurat of Ur
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Egyptian Pyramids
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Cuneiform tablet of
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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Bust of an Akkadian
King (perhaps Sargon)
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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Stele of Hammurabi’s
Law Code
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Close-up of the top of the
law code stele:
Hammurabi with the sun
god Shamash
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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The Assyrian Army
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Assyrian Relief:
Impaling Victims
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The beheading of a king defeated
by the Assyrians in battle
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Assyrian Highlands
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Overview of Western Civilization
Mesopotamia (3000-1000 BCE)Sumerians (3000-2000 BCE)Akkadians (2300-2100 BCE)Old Babylonians (2000-1000 BCE)Assyrians (1000-612 BCE)New Babylonians (612 -540 BCE)Persians (540-330 BCE)
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Darius the King of Persia
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Astrological Cuneiform Tablet from Late Antiquity
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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)
Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)
Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy
Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age
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Bull-leaping Fresco: Knossos (Crete)
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The Ruins of Troy
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The Walls of Troy
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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)
Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)
Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy
Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age
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Tyrannicides (“tyrant-killers”)
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The Persian King Darius
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Theatre of Dionysus (Athens)
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Overview of Western CivilizationGreece (1200-200 BCE)
Pre-Classical Age (1200-500 BCE)Indo-European InvasionsDark Age (1100-800 BCE)Homer and Epic (Iliad)
Classical Age (500-400 BCE)DemocracyPersians Wars (490-479 BCE)Drama, Art and Philosophy
Post-Classical Age (400-200 BCE)Alexander the Great (Macedonia)Hellenistic Age
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Philip II of Macedon
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Alexander the Great
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The Dying Alexander
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The Hellenistic Age
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Overview of Western Civilization
Rome (200 BCE – 476 CE)Rome vs. Carthage: Punic Wars
(264-146 BCE)
Roman Revolution (120-31 BCE)Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)Augustus Caesar (63 BCE – 14 CE)
Roman Empire (31 BCE – 476 CE)Pax Romana (31 BCE - 180 CE)