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LECTURE:
EMPIRES AND ANCIENT PEOPLES

EMPIRES

• Hittites: iron age
  • Hittites and map animation
    
• Phoenicians: trade & alphabet
  
  • trade ship
  • Mesopotamian cuneiform vs Phoenician alphabet vs Greek alphabet
  • From Phoenician to Latin alphabet (all via Robert Fradkin, U of Maryland)
  
  
• Assyrians: true empire
• Persians: Zoroastrianism
  -----Zoroaster/Zarathustra (~ 628 - 551 BC)

ANCIENT PEOPLE

• Gender distinctions
• Egypt:
  women's status website
  • marriage the Egyptian bride
  • sexuality reclining nude
• Assyria:
  women's status
  Code of the Assura
  • marriage
  • sexuality
    Assyrian law on homosexuality vs Egyptian spell of gay love
  
  

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