Ancient
Near East Civilizations take root
1700-500 B.C.E
---Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
Çatal Hüyük
Mesopotamia
Uruk Period (4300– 2900 B.C.E.)
Cuneiform
Sumerians
City States
Ziggurats
Lugal
Akkadian Empire (2350–2160 B.C.E.)
Sargon of Akkad
Old Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi
Marduk
Code of Hammurabi
Assyrian Empire
Middle Assyrian period (1362–859 B.C.E.)
Assurnasirpal II (883 – 859 B.C.E.)
neo-Assyrian empire (859 –627 B.C.E.)
Sargon II (722–705 B.C.E.)
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--Egypt
Predynastic Egypt (c.10,000–3100 B.C.E.)
King Namer
Pharaoh
Hieroglyphs - 3200 BCE
Rosetta Stone
Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2160 B.C.E.)
Kufu
Middle Kingdom (2055–c. 1650 B.C.E.)
Hyksos (1700 B.C.E.)
New Kingdom (1550–1075 B.C.E.)
Thutmosis III(c. 1479–1425 B.C.E.)Hatshepsut
Ra
Amon
Akhenaten (1352–1336 B.C.E.)
Aten
King Tut (Tutakhaten/Tutankhamon)
Kushite Kingdom
---Hebrews
David
Jerusalem
Torah
CULT OF YAHWEH
King Solomon (973–937 B.C.E.)
Monolatry
Nebuchadnezzer
Babylonian Captivity
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The World of Classic Greece
1150-480 B.C.E
--Hellenic
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Theseus
HOMER
Dark Age of Greece (1150–800 B.C.E.)
Polis
Oracle of Delphi
Hoplite
Phalanx
Tyrant
Athens
Solon
Cleisthenes
Demos
Ostracism
Sparta
Helots
Herodotus
Marathon
Hellenic League
Salamis
Delian League
Parthenon
Peloponnesian War 431-404
BCE
Peloponnesian League
Sophists
Socrates
Plato
The Academy
Aristotle
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Hellenistic Civilization &
Alexander the Great 359-200 B.C.E
---Persian empire
Cyrus
Darius I (521–486 B.C.E.)
Zoroastrianism
Ahura-Mazda
--Hellenistic
Macedon
Philip II (359–336 B.C.E.)
League of Corinth
Alexander (336–323 B.C.E.)
Bactria
Ptolemy
Alexandria
Seleucus
Antigonous
Rhodes
Stoicism
Epicureanism
Skepticism
Orphic cult
Mithraism
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Lecture 5:
Rome
753 B.C.E- 305 C.E.
---Rome Republic
Romulus and Remus
Etruscans
Tiber River
“Latin Right”
The Republic
Consuls
Patrician
Plebeian
Equestrians
Punic Wars (264-146)
Carthage
Hannibal
Scipio Africanus
Spartacus slave uprising (73–71 B.C.E.)
Graachus brothers
Pompey
Julius Caesar
Ides of March
---Imperial Rome
Early Empire (27 B.C.E.–180 C.E)
Octavian (Augustus)
Marc Antony
Pax Romana
Marcus Aurelius
Virgil
Livy
Aqueducts
Pantheon
Colosseum
Commodus (161–192)
Severan Dynasty
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Lecture 6: Christianity and the
Roman World
305-568 C.E.
---Byzantine
Diocletian
Maximian
Tetrarchy
Constantine
Constantinople (324)
Justinian (527-565)
Corpus Juris Civilis “Body of Civil Law”
Iconoclastic Controversy
Greek Orthodox
---Early Christian
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
Christ
Zealots
Torah
Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Saul of Tarsus
Jesus cult
Milvian Bridge (312)
Theodosius the Great
Arians
Athanasians
Council of Nicea (325)
Bishop of Rome
Monasticism
St. Benedict of Nursia
St. Patrick
St. Augustine
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Rival Civilizations of the
Medieval World (568-1000)
---Islamic World
Mecca
Kabah
Muhammad (c. 570 –632)
Yathrib (Medina)
Hijrah/Hegira (622)
Caliph (Caliphate)
Umar
Shiite (Ali)
Sunni (Uthman)
Umayyad Caliphate (661-750)
Allah
Ulama
Qur’an (Koran)
Abbasid Empire (750-1258)
Baghdad (762)
Al-Mansur
Seljuk Turks (1037-1194)
Ayyubid Empire (1174-1254)
Saladin
Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)
Mehmet II
Migration Period
Pope Gregory I (c. 540 –604)
Charlemagne (742–814, r. 768 –814)
Carolingian empire
Agricultural Revolution
Crop-rotation
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Lecture 8: Rise and Expansion of
Europe
1000-1300
---Early Medieval
Guild system
National Monarchies
Feudalism
England: -William the Conqueror (1027–1087)
-Henry II (1133–1189)
-Richard the Lionhearted (1157–1199)
Magna Carta (1215) [Parliament]
France: -Louis VI, “the Fat” (1078–1137)
-Philip II (1165–1223)
Iberia (Spain)
Holy Roman Empire
-Frederick I, Barbarossa (1152–1190)
Crusades
Alexius Comnenus (1048–1118)
Pope Urban II
Zara
Alexius Angelus
Papal States
Cult of the Virgin Mary
Innocent III (1198–1216)
Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
Transubstantiation
Franciscans
Dominicans
Venetian, Pisan, and Genoese
Hanseatic League
Kontore
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The
Later Middle
Ages
1300-1500
---Late Medieval
The Little Ice Age
The Great Famine
The Black Death, 1347–1350
English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
The Great Schism, 1378–1417
Avignon (1305–1378)
The Hundred Years’War, 1337–1453
Henry VI (1422–1461)
The Wars of the Roses
Ferdinand and Isabella
The Mongols
Chingiz (Genghis) Khan (1162–1227)
Ogedi, Kublai, Batu
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The Renaissance
1350-1550
---Renaissance
Patronage
Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444)
Renaissance Humanism
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
The Prince
Baldessare Castiglione (1478–1529)
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Raphael (1483–1520)
Michelangelo (1475–1564)
Christian humanism
Erasmus (c. 1469–1536)
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)
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Commerce, Colonization, and
New
Encounters
1415-1600
---Age of Exploration
Portuguese caravel
Quadrants
Astrolabes
Compass
Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460)
Bartholomeu Dias [Cape of Good Hope (1488) ]
Vasco de Gama (1497–98)
Azores and Canary Islands
Christopher Columbus 1492
Hernando Cortés [Aztecs (1519–1521) ]
Francisco Pizarro [Incas (1533)
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The Reformation and Religious
Wars 1517-1660
-Reformation
Indulgences
Printing Press
St. Augustine
Martin Luther
Wittenberg
Johan Tetzel
Frederick the Wise
Ninety-Five Theses (October 31, 1517)
Diet of Worms (1521)
German Imperial Diet (1529)
Anabaptist
John Calvin
Calvinism
Predestination
Geneva
John Knox (Presbyterian), Huguenot, Puritan
English Reformation (1531)
Henry VIII (1509-1547)
Six Articles of Faith (1539)
Catholic (Counter) Reformation
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
St. Ignatius Loyola
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) 1534
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