HIST 1010 Lecture 2: hist 1010 week 4-7
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The neo-assyrian and persian empires: key concepts and terms: core and periphery, empire, iron, satrap, royal road, religious ideology, ashur, ahura mazda, zoroastrianism, monotheism. Climate change again, intense migration again, new technologies, new innovations: camels, iron- lasted longer and harder than bronze, road systems, communication, empire, different ethnic groups brought under a sovereign power, big empires included geography. Core and periphery- in the broadest sense, the world system, wealth and influence are concentrated. Peripheries are still connected to the cores, but fewer connections, somewhat isolated. Core as center or heartland of an empire and the peripheries as the subjugated areas outside of the heartland but still within the empire. Core as the entire empire and peripheries as the fringes or areas bordering the empire. Greeks gave the persians a really hard time. Does the state impost the culture of the imperial heartland, the core/center-on all. The neo-assyrian homeland, southern mesopotamia vs persian empire.
