ARTE-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gypsum, Diodorus Siculus, Ashurnasirpal Ii
28 Apr 2017
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3500bce - sumerian city of uruk emerges. 2900bce - mesopotamians begin using cuneiform writing. 2350bce - conflict over sumerian city states over access to water and fer fle land. 2100bce - earliest surviving tablets of the epic of gilgamesh. 1400-1200bce - apogee of the hittite empire. 612bce - end of the assyrian empire. 604-662bce - reign of babylonian ruler nebuchadnezzar ii. 559-530bce - rule of cyrus the great - persian leader overthrows the medes. 331bce - alexander the great defeats the persians. Sumerian city of uruk emerges 3500 bce. An economic system where the fundamental authoritative figures are the gods. This system was used during the ancient mesopotamian period in the ancient cities of uruk (or warka) and to some extent during the neo mesopotamian period in the city of uruk. Ruins of the anu ziggurat and white temple. Digital reconstruction of the white temple and ziggurat, uruk (modern warka), c. 3517 - 3358.
