HIST 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Medes, Behistun Inscription, Tel Dan Stele
Document Summary
Iran celebrates cyrus cylinder/ideas behind it in 1971. The late bronze age crisis and the rise of the neo-assyrians. Not super affected by it (unlike most other nations) Neo-assyrian empire: (cid:498)king of the four quarters, king of all rulersthe legitimate shepherd(cid:499) Growing off of older ideas of kingship. Different than most societies land of enemies. Believed that ashur made own world safe by continuing to conquer. Military society (more so than any other societies) Women treated much worse than men; very few legal protections; women veiled. First laws against homosexuality and abortion due to want for. Professional standing army (8th century bce) more soldiers. Year-round campaigns (not only non-growing season campaigns) Conquered peoples turned into agricultural slaves or brought into army. Siege warfare: much more advanced than other societies. Siege towers and staffers (dug ground out from under wall so it would cave in) Early israelite kings: saul, david, solomon in hebrew bible.
