Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1702 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Period One: The Ancient Near East, 8 to 10 Percent
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The idea
Units 01 and 02: civilization's origins in Mesopotamia and Egypt, city-state to kingdom to empire, Hammurabi's code, the Bronze Age system and its collapse, Assyria's terror, Phoenician cities and alphabet, and the Hebrews' road from henotheism to monotheism.
In practice
The exam's phrase: political evolution, and religion and technology in the Fertile Crescent.
Where people slip
Sample question one lives here. Tyre and Carthage.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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