History and Culture of Ancient Mesopotamia 2900-SD24MSTE

Planned topics in individual thematic cycles:

A.1. Urban revolution and the rise of Sumerian civilization.
A.2. Sumerian city-state and political fragmentation in the ED period.
A.3. Great kingdoms of the Sargonic period and Ur III period – territorial and political structure.
A.4. The provincial government system in the times of Ur III Dynasty.
A. 5. Migrations of the Amorites and the rise of a new order in the times of the EOB.
A.6. Babylon on the path to greatness and the kingdom of Hammu-rabi.

B.1. Main genres of Babylonian historical writing
B.2. Reading examples of royal inscriptions from the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC
B.3. Foundation and narrative inscriptions – reading selected examples
B.4. Mesopotamian chronological texts – reading selected examples
B.5. Problems of chronology for the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC

C.1. Main types of Sumero-Akkadian texts from everyday life.
C.2. Administrative texts – reading selected examples.
C.3. Court and legal texts – reading selected examples.
C.4. Contracts, agreements and other private documents – reading selected examples.

D. More advanced students (e.g. another year of seminar) conduct their own research and report their results cyclically as part of the process of preparing a bachelor's or master's thesis according to the schedule:
- selection of a topic,
- bibliographic query
- designation of main research issues
- reporting of developed sources, literature - presentation of developed issues