Notes:
MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT

Geography: role of the river

• Mesopotamia
  • Ancient Mesopotamia map, current geographic map
  • Mesopotamian political maps (Shockwave)
• Egypt
  • Geography of Ancient Egypt: the Nile

Mesopotamian traditions

• Religion
  • Document: Epic of Gilgamesh -- The Flood
  • Document: Epic of Gilgamesh -- Death of Enkidu
• kingship
  • Document:Code of Hammurabi

Egyptian traditions

• Religion
• change vs continuity
• ma'at
  • Encyclopedia of the Orient
  • Goddess Ma'at
• divine kingship
  • Pharoah Hatshepsut

  • The Break: Akhenaten (1364-1347 BC)

    • Amenhotep IV --> Akhenaten
    • Tutankhaten --> Tutankhamen (tomb)

Architecture as comparison

• Egypt -- Document:Cross-section of Egyptian pyramid
  image of Giza
• Mesopotamia -- Document: Ziggurat
  ziggurat on the web