NEAREAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aegean Civilizations, Euphrates, Ubeidiya

• School: U of M
• Department: Near East Studies
• Course: NEAREAST 207
• Professor: Yaron Eliav

Document Summary

First settlement outside of africa is the settlement of ubeidiya. In the jordan valley, near the lake of galilee. Tell: human made protrusion from the ground that represents layers of human development over centuries. Water makes people go to the same spot, so each civilization built a town one on top of the other after the other got destroyed. Stratigraphy: allows the separate study of civilizations using tells. Pottery developed around 6000 bce with mud and water. Created the development of a vessel (container) Egypt ruled the region, then began to decline and withdrew back to egypt. Canaanites: race traces them back to iraq. Canaanite city-states: local kings ruled a city and the surrounding area, operated under. Dan (leish): at the beginning springs of the jordan river. Sumer empire was in mesopotamia (tigris and euphrates rivers) Egypt empire was on the nile river. Script began to appear in 3000 bce: was pictorial (pictures mean things)