UW-Madison Middle East Studies Program - Courses Hebrew 351 Religions of the ancient Near east (Fox). The gods in ancient Israel,Egypt, Hist 139 The middle east in the 20th Century (Karpat). http://www.mesp.wisc.edu/courses.htm
Extractions: African Languages and Literature . An important Afro-Asiatic language; description, drills. reading, speaking. . Continuation of 321. . Advanced grammar and conversational practice, reading contemporary Arabic literature and other writings. . Continuetion of 323. . (Crosslisted with S Asian; Relig St 370. See S Asian-370 for course information.). . Salection from Quranic and post-Quranic Arabic tents to meet the needs of the students. . Ccontinuation of 445. African Languages and Literature Antropology Comparative Literature Classics ... Sociology Antropology Anthro 102 Archaeology of the Prehistoric World . Introduction to prehistoric world from origins of human culture to the beginnings of written history as revealed by archaeological research at great sites and ruins around the globe. Archaeological analyses of famous prehistoric sites as case studies to illustrate concepts and techniqques used by archaeologists in their efforts to understand the rise, florescence, and demise of vanished societies. Anthro 204 Cultures of the World . Ethnographic survey of the world's peoples and their cultures. Major regions of the world considered in an attempt to outline the variety, richness, significance and the persistence of cultural traditions.
History In the 3rd millennium BC, Assyria, like most of the middle east, By 1850 BCAssyrian merchants had colonized parts of central anatolia (Asia Minor), http://www.abgd.de/abgd_neu/learn/his_enc.htm
Extractions: INTRODUCTION Assyria flourished in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia. An Assyrian king established what was probably the first centrally organized empire in the Middle East, between 1813 and 1780 BC. In defending their territory from nomadic invasions, Assyrians gained a reputation in the ancient Middle East for being relentless and ruthless warriors. EARLY SETTLEMENTS From early Paleolithic times people had lived in the land that came to be known as Assyria, a fact confirmed by two adult Neandertal skulls discovered in a cave on the northeastern fringes of the region. Settled agricultural life did not begin there, however, until about 6500 BC. The ethnic composition of the earliest farming communities of Assyria is unknown; the inhabitants may have been a people known in later days as Subarians, who spoke an agglutinative language rather than an inflected one. Later, probably in the 3rd millennium BC, Semitic nomads conquered the region and made their inflected tongue, which was closely related to Babylonian, the prevailing language of the land. The Assyrian script was a slightly modified version of the Babylonian cuneiform. As early as the 7th millennium BC, the farmers of Assyria cultivated wheat and barley and owned cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. They built their houses, some of which contained as many as four rooms, of compact clay, used round ovens for baking their ground flour, and stored their grain in large, bitumen-covered clay jars. These farming people wove textiles from thread spun with the help of spindle whorls; made knives of obsidian and chert, a flintlike stone; and used celts, ax-shaped implements made of stone, as adzes and hoes. Their pottery was outstanding; much of it was made of skillfully fired clay and painted in attractive patterns. Obsidian and other hard stones were worked into vases, beads, amulets, and stamp seals. Female figurines, for ritual and religious purposes, were modeled of clay. The dead, often buried in a flexed position, with the knees drawn up to the chin, were interred among the houses, rather than in regular cemeteries.
ANCIENT NEAR EAST I: SUMER, BABYLON, ASSYRIA The civilizations of the Near east were linked to Egypt in the west by the Phoenecians City/Country ALACA HUYUK, anatolia Catalog Number 4264 http://www.davis-art.com/artimages/slidesets/slideset.asp?setnumber=472
Department Of Near And Middle Eastern Civilizations NMC 276Y Social Movements and Civil Society in the middle east NMC 343H1FHistory of ancient Egypt I Predynastic Period to middle Kingdom (formerly http://www.utoronto.ca/nmc/undergraduate/history.html
Extractions: A discussion of the birth of Christianity in Syria and Mesopotamia and the rise of the Monophysite and Nestorian Churches in the Near East. The life of these churches under the Byzantines in Syria, the Sassanians in Mesopotamia and Persia, the Arabs, the Mongols, and finally the Ottomans. The roles played by Syrian Christians in diplomacy, science (namely, translations), missions, and relations with other churches. (Offered in alternate years)
Bulliet | The Earth And Its Peoples, Second Edition Contemporary Political and Physical Map of the middle east eastern MediterraneanResources ancient Art of the Aegean Crete and the Cycladic Islands http://college.hmco.com/history/world/bulliet/earth_peoples/2e/students/web_acti
MidEast.html Index for the middle east. Titles are linked to their abstracts. ancient EgyptAnatomy of a Civilization by Barry J. Kemp 17 (1990) 481485 http://www.bu.edu/jfa/Indices/MidEast.html
