UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Assyrian People, Hyksos, Israelites

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 111
• Professor: Boyd Timothy

Document Summary

Euphrates and tigris are the two major rivers within mesopotamia area. Euphrates is broader and stable whereas tigris is unstable. Euphrates means copper = uruddu in sumerian tigris means arrow= idiglat in sumerian. 3 major tools: dibble stick, hoe, plow. 3000-2500 bc emerges from a scribal class cuneiform = wedge shaped writing clay tablets reed pens sumerians conquered by akkadian who were conquered by babylonians akkadians their king is sargon assimilate the writing system semetic speaking people. Allows for predictable flooding current goes south to north lower egypt is in the north and upper egypt is in the south. Egypt has gold, grain, limestone, clay, and porphyry. *pharaoh= god on earth horus= the god (falcon head) dating system : kingdoms (3) old: pyramid. 1st intermediate period (revolt) middle: land / delta reclamation. 2nd intermediate period hyksos (princes of foreign land) take over during this period new: period of art and architecture and general expansion of the empire.