Mesopotamia, table of contents

Contents

1. Mesopotamia, general introduction and varia
   1. Geography
   2. Climate
      • fertile crescent , climate determinism
   3. People
      • Sumerians , Pre-Sumerians , Akkadians , Neighbors
        • Neighbors 3rd, 2nd, 1st millennium
   4. Economy, trade and natural resources
      • tribute and loot, barter, merchandise
   5. The Divine World
      • Deities, Pantheon, Anunnaki, Igigi, Atrahasis, Temples,
      • The great gods
        • An/Anum, Enlil, Enki/Ea, Utu/Shamash, Su'en,Nanna/Sin, Inanna/Ishtar, Adad
      • Lesser gods
   6. Assyriology
   7. Tell, tepe or höyuk
2. Prehistory in Mesopotamia
   1. Neolithic (Stone Age)
      1. Isolated settlements from 9000BC onwards
         • Agriculture , Food storage , Ceramics ,
      2. Village communities (6000-3000 BC)
      3. Neolithic cities exceptional
   2. Chalcolithic (Copper-Stone Age)
      1. Early use of metals
      2. Metallurgy
         • Lead , Silver , Bronze
3. Protohistory in Mesopotamia
   1. Protohistory as described in later texts
      1. Sumerian King Lists
      2. The Flood story
   2. The first cities (Jemdet Nasr period)
   3. Old Sumerian Age
      1. The city Kish, Early Dynastic-I, the Golden Age (2900-2700 BC)
      2. The city Uruk, Early Dynastic-II, the Heroic Age (2700-2500 BC)
      3. The cities Ur and Lagash, Early Dynastic-III (2500-2350 BC)
4. History of the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia
   1. Empire of Sargon of Akkad (2350-2200 BC)
      1. Sargon (2350-2330 BC)
      2. Naräm-Sîn
      3. Gutiansbronze_age.html
      4. Neo Sumerian Renaissance (2100-2000 BC)
      5. Gudea of Lagash
         • New Sumerian
      6. dynasty of Ur-III (2100-2000 BC)
         • Urnammu , Shulgi , End
   2. Old Babylonian period (2000-1600 BC)
      1. Isin-Larsa period (2000-1800 BC)
      2. Hammurabi in Babylon (1792-1750 BC)
   3. Old Assyrian period (around 1900 BC)
      1. Kültepe texts, Commercial process
   4. Late Bronze Age
      1. Kassites in Babylon (1600-1200 BC)
      2. Rise of Assyria
5. History of the Iron Age in Mesopotamia
   1. New Assyrian period
      1. A urnasirpal (883-859 BC)
      2. Sargon-II (772-705 BC)
      3. A urbanipal (669-625 BC)
      4. Downfall of the New Assyrian empire
   2. New Babylonian empire
      1. Nebudkadnesar-II (605-565 BC)
      2. Seleucides (312 BC-64 AD)

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