JUDAIC 320 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Next week kelsey museum for the rst hour. Important because the rst paper is on the artifacts there. Reading for the rst two weeks are less important. Population: 50,000,000 people living in the roman world, 10% of these people were jewish, makes them the largest minority in the roman world, most of the egyptian minority was in egypt. Speci c geography: swiss alps: mountain range that closes off the boot of italy, rhine river: goes north then west from swiss alps, danube river: goes east, breaks south 90 at budapest, goes east into the. Jewish minorities went beyond borders (geographical, religious, & social): i. e. contact with barbarians. Carthage inhabited by punics who were semites. In 476, the west was invaded by the barbarians, sacked, and was no more. Roman empire continued for another 1,000 years in the east (until 1453 when turks take down constantinople)
