MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Burning Bush, Patrimonialism, Southern Levant

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Derived from pastoral nomads moving in from south and east. Settled in southern levant by end of bronze age or start of iron age. 1300 bc -> approximate time of moses: second contract with god. 1200 bc -> iron makes a great impact on civilizations. Iron is stronger, but takes a lot of work to forge it. Iron mastered -> must keep it a secret: secret of iron gets out, time of trojan war -> period of conflict in greece. King david establishes city of david 100 years later: uses newfound knowledge of iron. Pharaoh shoshenq i, founder of egypts 22nd dynasty, invades canaan. Assyrians conquer israel and exile hebrews to nineveh. Judah rebel twice against nebuchadnezzar: ba(cid:271)ylo(cid:374)ia(cid:374)s destroy olo(cid:373)o(cid:374)"s te(cid:373)ple, take hebrew leadership and disperse them. Persian empire ends babylonian captivity -> tells jews they can go back home: son xerxes funds rebuilding of temple destroyed in jerusalem.