ARTH 260 Lecture 2: ARTH 260 week 2
2 Feb 2017
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The ancient world in the near east and the mediterranean: war, looting and victory monuments. First quiz is on friday, 15-20 questions and you get 10 random ones. Going back to the 23rd century bc, could be the hardest lecture. The ancient world in the middle east: mesopotamia, babylon, the. Ancient cultures surrounding the tigris and euphrates rivers. Around the ferutle river valleys of the tigris and euphrates. A very fertile area, in between the rivers and on either side are wehre mesopatamia and babylon developed. Iraq to the west, quwait to the north west on the persian gulf. Stele (large vertical standing stone) with the code of hammurabi, king of baselt. One of the first insrciptions about destruction during comes during the time of. His code during his rule of babylon is one of the oldest, about human and social behavior, its more extensive than the hebrew.
