Chapter 3: The Mediterranean and the Middle East, 2000-500 BCE Directions: Read each section as assigned and respond to the necessary prompts.
THE COSMOPOLITAN MIDDLE EAST, 1700-1100 B.C.E.: How did a cosmopolitan civilization develop in the Middle East during the Late Bronze Age, and what forms did it take? (p.69-76) WESTERN ASIA (Provide a summary statement for each boxed section)
Iron Age cosmopolitan Hittites Akkadian
NEW EGYPT KINGDOM
Hyksos New Kingdom Hatshepsut AP World History Guided Readings
Punt Akhenaten Ramesses II
COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATION
Syria-Palestine horses camels
THE AEGEAN WORLD, 2000-1100 B.C.E.: What civilizations emerged in the Aegean world, and what relationship did they have to the older civilizations to the east? (p.76-80) MINOAN CRETE (Provide a summary statement for each boxed section)
Crete Minoan Minos Cnossos
MYCENAEAN GREECE
Mycenae shaft graves
AP World History Guided Readings
Linear B commercial vessels Iliad Troy
THE FALL OF LATE BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS
Philistines “Dark Age”
THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE, 911-612 B.C.E.: How did the Assyrian Empire rise to power and eventually dominate most of the ancient Middle East? (p.80-83) GOD AND KING (Provide a summary statement for each boxed section)
Neo-Assyrian Empire Zagros Ashur
CONQUEST AND CONTROL
King Tiglathpileser mass deportation Fortress of Sargon
AP World History Guided Readings
ASSYRIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE
“human beings” Library of Ashurbanipal
ISRAEL, 2000 B.C.E. – 500 C.E.: How did the civilization of Israel develop, following both familiar cultural patterns and a unique course of its own? (p.84-90) ORIGINS, EXODUS, AND SETTLEMENT
Israelites Hebrew Bible Abraham Joseph Apiru Yahweh Ten Commandments Canaanite cities Twelve Tribes Israelites
RISE OF THE MONARCHY
David & Solomon First Temple AP World History Guided Readings
FRAGMENTATION AND DISPERSAL
monotheism Nebuchadnezzar Diaspora
PHOENICIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1200-50 B.C.E.: How did the Phoenicians rise to commercial dominance over much of the Mediterranean world? (p.90-96) THE PHOENICIAN CITY-STATES; EXPANSION INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN; CARTHAGE’S COMMERCIAL EMPIRE
Phoenicians Byblos, Berytus, Sidon, Tyre trading network Carthage merchant aristocracy WAR AND RELIGION
Baal Hammon and Tanit tophets
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FAILURE AND TRANSFORMATION, 750-550 B.C.E.: Between 750 and 550 B.C.E., what factors prompted the transformation of the ancient Middle East? (p.96-98) Chaldaean and Medes New Babylonian Kingdom