CLASSICS 1M03 Chapter 4: Readings - Chapter 4
15 Sep 2016
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Chapter 4: coastal civilizations of the eastern mediterranean (2500-800 bce) . Mathisen pages 97-113: the bronze age is viewed as the great age of river valley civilizations (although there were also developments in non river-valley civilizations), the levant refers to the eastern mediterranean and greater syria and historically as. Outremer, is a geographic and cultural region consisting of the eastern mediterranean littoral between anatolia and egypt. Ebla : ebla was a syrian city mentioned in egyptian and akkadian documents but whose location was unknown until 1968 when italian archaeologists excavated it. In about 2250 bcea, ebla was captured and burned by the akkadian king naramsin. Coastal commerce : the eastern coast of the mediterranean was a center of commercial activity, trading cities included sidon, tyre, byblos, and ugarit developed in kinahu (biblical. Cities liked to be independent but were often dominated by imperialist states such as egypt or the hittites.
