Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Origins of great ancient civilizations, Kenneth W. Harl

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Origins of great ancient civilizations

DVD

67139354

Kenneth W. Harl

360

The great courses

Professor Harl begins during the Bronze Age and the emergence of urban-based literate civilizations and carries the story forward until the demise of Persia's great empire at the hands of the Greeks, who embraced many of the achievements of these Near East civilizations but clearly represented a different kind of civilization, built on different institutions. Along the way, he examines advances like the invention and evolution of writing; the development of vast empires dependent not only on military might but on laws and administration; the growth of trade; and the contributions of the Hebrews to the religious and ethical future of Western civilization

Disc 1. Cradles of civilization -- First cities of Sumer -- Mesopotamian kings and scribes -- Hammurabi's Babylon -- Egypt in the pyramid age -- The Middle KingdomDisc 2. Imperial Egypt -- New peoples of the Bronze Age -- The collapse of the Bronze Age -- From Hebrews to Jews ; Imperial Assyria -- The Persian Empire

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