ARB 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Aramaic Language, Mozarabs, Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant
17 Jan 2019
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Lecture 1: concepts of culture and civilization till the end of the 17th century. Etymology culture civilization from latin colere: protect or cultivate from latin civis: citizen thaqafa: sharpening the mind. 7adara: becoming urban, to live in a city not to mix up with uncultivated and not having a culture. The urban life starts with the organization of jobs such as channel digging, dykes buiding and crop. This organization requires some science: physcis, astronomy, political authority. 10,000 b. c: palestine, mesopotamia and the nile valley, birth of farming: products were wheat and barley, farming and agriculture results in the domestication of the land, simultaneously took place the first domestication of animals. 7000 b. c: mesopotamia: first pottery, a sign of a settled way of life. 3000 b. c: foundation of the "old kingdom" of ancient egypt. 2000 b. c: building of the giza pyramids. Mesopotemia (2500-2000bc: mesopotamia (means in greek: between the two rivers) situated in today"s iraq, mesopotnian legacy, literary.
