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History
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Civilization & Culture
Ancient Mesopotamia
Course Guidebook
ANCIENT
of Civilization
Life in the Cradle
MESOPOTAMIA
Amanda H. Podany, PhD
Professor Amanda H. Podany
LIFE IN THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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Amanda H. Podany, PhD
Professor of History
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
A
manda H. Podany is a Professor of History at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she has taught since 1990. She
earned her BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA), after which she obtained her MA in the Archaeology of
Ancient Western Asia from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of
London. Professor Podany returned to UCLA in 1982 and received her PhD
in Ancient Near Eastern History from the school in 1988. Her dissertation
was a study of the history and chronology of the ancient Hana kingdom in
present-day Syria.
Professor Podany has continued to publish her findings about the
Hana kingdom and its contributions to the understanding of the chronology
of the 2
nd
millennium BCE. She has also published in the fields of scribal
tradition, international relations in the ancient Near East, and ancient legal
practices. Professor Podany has been an invited speaker at several international
symposiums in her field and is working on a study of the relationships between
kings and their subjects in the Late Bronze Age.
In 2013, Professor Podany was the recipient of a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Humanities to support her research. Her
book
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient
Near East
was awarded the Norris and Carol Hundley Award by the Pacific
Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Professor Podany
is also the author of
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
and
The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition.
She was the co–
general editor of The World in Ancient Times (with Ronald Mellor), a series
of nine books on ancient history for secondary students. Professor Podany
wrote
The Ancient Near Eastern World
(along with Marni McGee) for that
series. She has also worked extensively in providing professional development
for teachers and received a certificate of recognition from the California
Department of Education.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography
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Course Scope
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LECTURE GUIDES
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Uncovering Near Eastern Civilization
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Natufian Villagers and Early Settlements.
. . . . . . . .
10
Neolithic Farming, Trade, and Pottery
. . . . . . . . . . .
19
Uruk, the World’s Biggest City
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
Early Dynastic Workers and Worshipers
. . . . . . . . .
57
Lecture 4
Eridu and Other Towns in the Ubaid Period
. . . . . .
30
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Mesopotamia’s First Kings and the Military
. . . . . . .
47
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lugalzagesi of Umma and Sargon of Akkad
. . . . . .
66
Lecture 9
Akkadian Empire Arts and Gods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
76
Lecture 10
The Fall of Akkad and Gudea of Lagash
. . . . . . . . .
84
Lecture 11
Ur III Households, Accounts, and Ziggurats
. . . . .
91
Lecture 12
Migrants and Old Assyrian Merchants
. . . . . . . . . .
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