ASCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ramesses Iii, Minoan Civilization, Sea Peoples
6 Dec 2016
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Intensive year-round agriculture made possible by bronze tools. E gypt as a case study as to what happened to societies. S lavery, consequence large hierarchies formed, monumental architecture. Neo-s umerian g reat ziggurat of ur. S ocieties functions around some sort of leadership, leaders have super powers to communicate with some sort of g ods. Territorial expansion, want more land, and more people to create slave populations to create more food. Agi and bronze age synthesized to create all the consequences listed above. Marine style jug, 15th century bc : pottery. 300 later, you think things get better but it did not. All cities gone, literacy disappeared, technology collapses. E nvironmental: droughts; around 1200 bc goes through cycles of drought, through 2 very important methods, they experience a cycle of droughts which tend to occur frequently. P ollen deposits in sedimentary rocks, confirm that in a region there were profound droughts.
