HISA07H3 Lecture 6: HISA07-Lecture 6.docx
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Lecture 6: iron age empires - assyria, babylonia, persia (850-500 bce) Time of peace, not necc. f/ periphery peoples. West + north later expanded to south. *egyptians counted penises and right hands assyrians counted heads of the defeated. To break the will and means to fight mass deportations of defeated, espec. of ruling peoples. Hezekia built a tunnel to get access to water in gihon spring (located outside of city walls) to bring water into city in prep. of siege (rebelled against the assyrians and so they came after him) Assyrian perspective: they were paid in gold, silver etc b/c assyrians won. Babylonian art more serene than assyrian (south meso. only had mud and water, a lot of mat"s didn"t last; no stone) Breaking spirits, removed from people; put in alien enviro. These peoples created a lot of what is in the hebrew bible today (e. g. songs) Laying ground work for later persian empire (admin. framework)
