HISTORY 21B Lecture 1: History 21 Discussion
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Identification: who/what is the term, what is its historical context, and what is the significance, or why is it important. Five of the following items will appear on the midterm. Example: arnold he is a graduate student in history at uci. Victor sarianidi russian greek-extraction archaeologist in the 1960s who found the bactria- Found that each city had organization, sanitation and rituals. Greek and found the bactria and discovered things that help us discover the bronze age. (the. Black sand is a documentary of the things he found) he found monuments of the bronze age for the first time by discovering the sites of the bmac. Cyrus cylinder this clay cylinder is inscribed in babylonian cuneiform a form of wedge- shaped writing about cyrus, king of persia (559-530 bc) and his conquest of babylon in 539. The cylinder was discovered more than 130 years ago in the ruins of babylon in iraq.