(in Polish) "Historia zaczyna się w Sumerze" - Mezopotamia kolebką cywilizacji 2900-MK1-HSMK-OG

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:

- ethnic and linguistic affiliation of peoples representing the culture of the Fertile Crescent;

- chronology of the history of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

- invention of writing;

- main written sources of Mesopotamian history;

- urban revolution;

- polity of the oldest Sumerian city-states;

- religion, politics, and tradition;

Type of course

general courses
elective courses

Mode

Classroom

Course coordinators

Krystyna Stebnicka
Marek Stępień

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.

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

H.W.F. Saggs, Wielkość i upadek Babilonii, Warszawa 1975;

Additional information

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

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