"History Begins in Sumer" - Mesopotamia the Cradle of Civilization 2900-MK1-HSMK-KL
The lectures will cover the earliest history of Mesopotamia, one of the oldest fully developed human civilisations, viewed on a comparative backdrop of the other areas in the Fertile Crescent of the time. It will cover the Mesopotamian political, social, and economic history, as well as selected questions of its culture and religion, such as:
- the ethnic and linguistic affiliation of peoples representing the culture of the Fertile Crescent,
- the invention of writing,
- the main written sources of Mesopotamian history,
- the urban revolution,
- the polity of the oldest Sumerian city-states.
Type of course
elective courses
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students are expected to know the early history of Mesopotamia and understand its cultural ties with the rest of the Fertile Crescent.
Assessment criteria
Criteria - the assessment is based on the lecture attendance and, in some cases, passing a short written test.
Bibliography
To pass the course, it is enough to know the material presented during the lecture.
J. Bauer - R.K. Englund - M. Krebernik, Mesopotamien. Späturuk-Zeit und Frühdynastische Zeit, OBO 160/1, Freiburg 1998
B. Lafont - A. Tenu - F. Joannès - Ph. Clancier, La Mésopotamie. De Gilgamesh a Artaban 3300-120 av. J.-C., Paris 2017
K. Radner - N. Moeller - D. T. Potts (eds.), The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Oxford 2021-2023, vol. 1: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad
G. Roux, Mezopotamia, Warszawa 1998
M. Van De Mieroop, Historia starożytnego Bliskiego Wschodu: ok. 3000 – 323 p.n.e., Kraków 2008.
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