Part 1. The rise of civilizaton. Lecture 1. The Iraq Museum -- Lecture 2. Geography and environment -- Lecture 3. Discovering Mesopotamia -- Lecture 4. Archaeological methods -- Lecture 5. Farming and early settlements -- Lecture 6. The Uruk phenomenon -- Lecture 7. Writing -- Lecture 8. Temples -- Lecture 9. Mesopotamian deities -- Lecture 10. Gilgamesh - hero and king -- Lecture 11. The early dynastic period -- Lecture 12. Warfare and diplomacy.
Part 2. The great city-states. Lecture 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur -- Lecture 14. The Akkadians -- Lecture 15. Ideology of kingship - Naram-Sin and Gudea -- Lecture 16. The Ur III dynasty -- Lecture 17. Life in a Mesopotamian city -- Lecture 18. Food and drink -- Lecture 19. Assyrian trade networks -- Lecture 20. Hammurabi of Babylon -- Lecture 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari -- Lecture 22. Laws -- Lecture 23. Medicine, science, and math -- Lecture 24. Poetry and literature.
Part 3. Empires of the East. Lecture 25. Internationalism -- Lecture 26. Assyrian expansion -- Lecture 27. Sargon II -- Lecture 28. Ideology of empire -- Lecture 29. Control and revolt -- Lecture 30. Medes and the neo-Babylonian state -- Lecture. 31. The rise of the Achaemenids -- Lecture 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece -- Lecture 33. Xerxes's invasion of Greece -- Lecture 34. Persian and art culture -- Lecture 35. Alexander the Great -- Lecture 36. After Alexander.
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