last update: 12.02.07
History 270.01
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that
were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which
are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as
they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here first,
chronologically according to the date in which they occurred in class
or were written on the class blackboard, then secondly according to section
number. Find the terms that pertain specifically to your own section number.
If you find any terms do not appear in your notes on the specicif date mentioned,
check your notes for one class-date earlier or later.
First day of class (8/21)
- alphabetic scripts
- archaeology
- cuneiform
- epigraphy
- lexicography
- paleography
- philology
- absolute chronology
- Assyriology
- Behyr Nahreyn (Aramaic, "between the 2 rivers"= N. Mesopotamia)
- biological anthropology
- Çatal Hüyük
- environmental archaeology
- geoarchaeology
- geomorphology
- Hittitology
- hüyük
- kom
- lacunae
- law of superposition
- Mesopotamia ("land between the rivers")
- Near East vs. Middle East
- Near Eastern studies
- paleobotany
- paleoclimatology
- paleodemography
- paleoecology
- paleopathology
- radiocarbon dating (C-14 dating)
- relative chronology
- pottery seriation
- stratigraphy
- Sumerology
- Syro-Palestinian studies
- tell
- tepe
- thermoluminescence
- Akkad (Agade)
- Assyria
- Babylonia
- "black-headed people", "Sumerians"
- desert
- Diyala River
- el-Jezirah (Arab.), "the Island"
- Euphrates River
- foothills (piedmont; hilly flanks)
- geographical zones of Near East
- Idiqlat (Akkad.), "Tigris" [from idigna (Sum.), lit., "fast as an arrow"]
- ki (Sum.), "land"
- Ki-engir (Sum.), "Sumer"
- Marsh Arabs
- marshes/marshlands
- Mât Akkadi, "Land of Akkad" (also "Babylonia")
- Purattu (Akkad.), "Euphrates"
- steppe
- Sumer [from Mât Shumer (Babylon.), "Land of Sumer"]
- Tigris River
- topographical areas of Near East
- Babylon (modern Hillah)
- Esagila (temple of Babylon)
- Etemenanki (ziggurat of Babylon)
- Gate of Ishtar
- Great Processional Way
- the Hanging Gardens
- Inanna (aka: Ishtar, Astarte, Astoreth)
- Marduk
- palace of Nebuchadnezzar
video: "Iraq: Cradle of Civilization"
- Assyria
- Austin Henry Layard
- Babylon
- Code of Hammurabi
- Dilmun
- Eden [from Edîn (Sum.), "southern grasslands"]
- el-iraq (Arab.), "the cliffs"
- Enki ("Lord Earth")
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Irbil
- Euphrates River
- Fertile Crescent
- flood epic
- Ibi-Sin
- Ishtar Gate
- "Lament of the Fall of Ur"
- Mesopotamia
- Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon)
- Nineveh
- Nippur
- origins of writing
- royal tombs of Ur
- Sennacherib (king)
- Sir Leonard Wooley
- Standard of Ur
- Sumer
- Tigris River
- Tower of Babel
- treasure of Nimrud
- Ur
- Uruk
- ziggurat
video: "Mesopotamia: Return to Eden"
- Assyria
- Austin Henry Layard
- Babylon
- Bahrain
- Code of Hammurabi
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Dilmun
- Eden
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Essenes
- Euphrates River
- Fertile Crescent
- flood epic
- Ishtar Gate
- Mesopotamia
- Nebuchadnezzar (king of Neo-Babylonia)
- Nineveh
- origins of writing
- royal tombs of Ur
- Sennacherib (king of Neo-Assyria)
- Sir Leonard Wooley
- Sumer
- Tigris River
- Tower of Babel
- treasure of Nimrud
- Ur
- Uruk
- ziggurat
- Abu Salabikh
- Çatal Hüyük
- Çayonü
- civilization (factors)
- Early Dynastic period
- en (Sum., "lord"), Sumerian priest-king
- Enmebaragesi (king of Kish)
- Jarmo
- Jemdet Nasr period
- Jericho
- Mashkan-shapir
- microliths
- Neolithic period
- origins of agriculture
- pre-Sargonid period (= Early Dynastic)
- Proto-literate period
- recessed panel facade architecture
- royal cemetery of Ur
- salinization
- Shuruppak
- Tell Hamoukar
- tokens (calculi) & token theory of writing
- Ubaid period
- Ur (Urim)
- Uruk (Unug)
- Uruk period
video: "Mesopotamia: I Have Conquered the River"
- al-Qurnah
- C. Leonard Wooley
- Çayonü
- cylinder seal
- environmental decline (Sumer, 3rd millennium)
- Fertile Crescent
- Gilgamesh
- Girsu (Telloh)
- great flood of Ur
- irrigation farming
- Ishtar Gate (of Babylon)
- lapis lazuli
- madif (marshlands reed meeting house)
- map of Nippur
- Marshland Arabs
- Marshlands
- Nanna (Sin)
- Nippur
- port of Ur
- Standard of Ur
- Susa
- Ur
- Uruk
- Uruk Vase
- ziggurat (Sum., "high place")
Midterm Examination (10/11)
October 16: Fall Break
- en
- ensi
- lugal
- Lugalzagessi
- Akkad (Agade)
- Akkadian Empire
- An (Anu)
- Ebla (Tell Mardikh)
- en-priestess
- Enheduana
- Hanigalbat (kingdom of Mitanni)
- Hurrians
- Kish
- Legend of Sargon I
- "Lugal of Sumer"
- Lugalzagessi (k. of Umma)
- Lullubi
- Manishtushu
- Mari
- Nanna (Sin)
- Naram-Sin
- Rimush
- Sargon (Sharrukin)
- sharrum kinum (Akkad.), "rightful king"
- Sumero-Akkadian culture
- syncretism
- transliteration
- Anu
- "Curse of Agade"
- Dumuzi (Tammuz = Adonis)
- Ebih
- Elam/Elamites
- Enheduana
- fall of the Akkadian empire (political factors)
- Gilgamesh
- Guti (Gutium)
- "Inanna and the Ebih" (hymn)
- Inanna (Ishtar = Astarte, Ashtoreth)
- "King of the Universe"
- "King of the 4 Quarters of the World"
- "Lady of all the Me" [= "Exultation of Inanna"] (hymn)
- Lugalan(ne)
- Lugalbanda
- Lullubi
- Manishtushu ("who is with him?")
- me (Sum.), "divine power, attributes"
- Nanna (Sin)
- Naram-Sin ("beloved of Sin")
- pseudepigraphia
- Rimush
- Sargon I
- Sharkallisharri ("king of all kings")
- "Stout-hearted Lady" (hymn)
- Sumerian temple hymns
- Susa (capital of Elam)
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- 3rd millennium Old World collapse
- Akkadian legacy
- awilu(m)
- Code of Ur-Nammu
- eponymous year lists
- fall of the Akkadian empire (environmental factors)
- Guti
- Guti Interregnum
- Harappa
- Harvey Weiss
- Hittites
- Indus Valley civilization
- Luwians
- Meluhha
- Mohenjo-Daro
- mushkinum
- Neo-Sumerian Empire
- Shulgi
- stage temple
- Sumero-Akkadian culture
- Ur
- Ur-Nammu ("warrior of Nammu")
- Ur-Uruk condominium
- Utu-hegel
- wardum
- ziggurat of Ur
- ziggurats (history)
- Amar-Suen (king)
- Amorites (Amurru)
- Code of Ur-Nammu
- Code of Hammurabi
- Dilmun
- Drehem
- Ebla
- Elam/Elamites
- ensi
- fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire
- fall of Ur
- Ibbi-Sin (king)
- Isin
- "Lament on the Fall of Ur"
- Larsa
- Magan
- Mari
- Martu (Amorites)
- Muriq-tidnum (Sum.), "what holds back the invaders"
- Neo-Sumerian Empire
- shagin
- Shulgi (king)
- sukkal-makh
- Sumerian renaissance
- Ur-Nammu (king)
- Wall of the Martu
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- Assur
- Bab-illim (Akkad.), "Gate of the Gods" (Babylon)
- Babylon
- Carcamish
- Ekallatum
- Hammurabi (king)
- Iasmah-Adad (king)
- Ishme-Dagan (king)
- Isin-Larsa period
- karum
- Karum-Kanesh
- Kültepe (Kanesh)
- Lipit-Ishtar (king)
- Old Assyria
- Puzur-Assur (k. of Assyria)
- Rim-Sim (king)
- Shamsi-Adad (king)
- Tower of Babel [< balil (Heb.) "confuse"]
- ziggurat of Babylon (Etemenanki)
- Ammisaduqa (king)
- Amorites
- Dynasty of the Sea-Land
- "Edict of Equity"/Edict of Ammisaduqa
- Eshnunna
- fall of the Old Babylonian Empire
- Hammurabi (king)
- Hittites
- Hurrians
- Isin-Larsa period
- Karduniash (kingdom)
- Kassites
- Luwians
- Mari
- Middle Babylonia
- Murshili I (k. of Hittites)
- Old Babylonia
- Rim-Sin (king)
- Samsuiluna (king)
- Shamsi-Adad (king)
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- Amarna letters
- Asianic languages
- Canaan
- el-Amarna
- Hanigalbat (kingdom)
- Hatti (kingdom)
- Hattians
- Hattic (language)
- Hattusas
- Hittites
- Hurrian (language)
- Kadesh
- Kanesh (Nesha)
- Karduniash (kingdom)
- Luwians
- mariannu
- Megiddo
- Mitanni (kingdom)
- Neshian (language)
Thanksgiving: No Class (11/22)
Last day of class (11/29)
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