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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - 2 views

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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

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  • Thanasis Kouris on 09 Mar 10
     
    This website contains a large amount of information on different slave ship voyages (about 35,000 so it says), along with the two charts Mr. Kogan showed us in class. This source could be useful due to all the information it contains on the number of slaves moved during the period, along with the places they were moved and in what concentration. Basically, it provides a large amount of hard data that could be useful for almost any topic. It has the two charts, along with a number of others, and a very good map that shows embarkation and disembarkation points of slaves in the the Western Hemisphere. There is also a timeline that shows the number of slaves embarking and disembarking from slave ships starting in 1525 and ending in 1867, with the last slave voyage.
  • Thanasis Kouris on 09 Mar 10
     
    This website contains a large amount of information on different slave ship voyages (about 35,000 so it says), along with the two charts Mr. Kogan showed us in class. This source could be useful due to all the information it contains on the number of slaves moved during the period, along with the places they were moved and in what concentration. Basically, it provides a large amount of hard data that could be useful for almost any topic. It has the two charts, along with a number of others, and a very good map that shows embarkation and disembarkation points of slaves in the the Western Hemisphere. There is also a timeline that shows the number of slaves embarking and disembarking from slave ships starting in 1525 and ending in 1867, with the last slave voyage.
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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II - 2 views

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      Thanasis Kouris on 01 Oct 09
       
      His role of honour, telling of his relation to the gods and how his power and authority come from them.
  • [19] the noble offspring of Tiglath-Adar [20] who has laid his yoke upon all lands hostile to him, and [21] has swept (them) like a whirlwind.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 01 Oct 09
       
      More of the thing above (role of honour).
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  • In my first year [27] the Euphrates in its flood I crossed.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 01 Oct 09
       
      He puts this to show that he has powers over the gods, since he crossed the river when it was flooding.
  • By the command of Assur, the great Lord, my Lord, [64] with them I fought. A destruction of them I made. [65] Their chariots, their war-carriages, their war-material I took from them.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 01 Oct 09
       
      Justifies his killing of these people by saying that Assur told him to do it.
  • His treasure [95] his army (and) his gods to Assyria I brought. Yan'su son of Khanban to the kingdom over them I raised.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 01 Oct 09
       
      Lots of conquering going on by this point, very militaristic ideology.
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British Museum - The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III - 3 views

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      Celebrating their achievements and also used as intimidation for any visiting dignitaries from other cultures.
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Egypt's Golden Empire . New Kingdom . Overview | PBS - 0 views

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  • Behind the power of the Egyptian empire lay a vast wealth of natural resources. Chief among these was the river Nile, the freeway of the ancient world, whose floodplains also provided huge expanses of fertile farming ground that kept Egypt self-sufficient and usually famine-free.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      The regular flooding of the Nile allowed the Egyptians to plan their crops well, which led to less famines.
  • bureaucratic efficiency and cultural sophistication
  • deserts of Nubia, gold mines gave Egypt the unimaginable wealth that formed the real power behind the throne.
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Egypt's Golden Empire . New Kingdom | PBS - 0 views

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  • The Nile provided vast amounts of fertile land and was a major route for communications and travel
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      Allowed for easy trade and communication, since traveling by water was much faster than by land.
  • Boats moved cattle, grain and soldiers across the Kingdom and the Nile linked Egypt's provincial centers to its capital, Thebes. This enabled Egypt to function as an integrated kingdom, rather than a collection of independent provinces.
  • The most important of these was gold. Egypt's gold turned it into a superpower, respected and courted by friends and enemies alike.
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  • desert regions also gave Egypt a rich supply of salts
  • solder precious metals together
  • deserts around Egypt also provided building materials for temples, palaces and tombs.
  • Flax, a winter vegetable, was also essential. Flax had two main uses: oil and fiber. The flax stems were combed to remove the bolls, which contained linseed oil. The remaining fibers were spun to make linen threads, which could then be woven into clothing, sheets and blankets.
  • While its power was based primarily on gold, it was papyrus that gave Egypt its sophistication.
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Hittites - Crystalinks - 0 views

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  • Hittite prosperity was mostly dependent on control of the trade routes and metal sources. Because of the importance of Northern Syria to the vital routes linking the Cilician gates with Mesopotamia, defense of this area was crucial, and was soon put to the test by Egyptian expansion under Pharaoh Rameses II. Although his own inscriptions proclaimed victory, it seems more likely that Rameses was turned back at the Battle of Kadesh by the Hittite king Muwatalli, successor to Mursilis II. This battle took place in the 5th year of Ramses (c 1275 BC by the most commonly used chronology).
    • Thanasis Kouris
      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      The Battle of Kadesh was really the beginning of the end for the Hittites. They started to lose control of their empire after this.
  • the power of the Hittites began to decline yet again, as the Assyrians had seized the opportunity to vanquish Mitanni and expand to the Euphrates while Muwatalli was preoccupied with the Egyptians. Assyria now posed equally as great a threat to Hittite trade routes as Egypt had ever been.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      As stated before, the beginning of the end.
  • The "Treaty of Kadesh", one of the oldest completely surviving treaties in history, fixed their mutual boundaries in Canaan, and was signed in the 21st year of Rameses (c. 1258 BC).
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      Kept the Hittites safe for a little bit.
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  • The Sea Peoples had already begun their push down the Mediterranean coastline, starting from the Aegean, and continuing all the way to Philistia -- taking Cilicia and Cyprus away from the Hittites en route and cutting off their coveted trade routes. This left the Hittite homelands vulnerable to attack from all directions, and Hattusa was burnt to the ground sometime around 1180 BC following a combined onslaught from Gasgas, Bryges and Luwians. The Hittite Empire thus vanished from the historical record.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      Destruction of the Hittite empire concluded by the Sea Peoples (still have no idea who these dudes are).
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Archaeology News - Aboriginal India and the Harappan Empire - 0 views

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  • The Harappan rulers, by contrast, collected large quantities of grain into fortified storehouses, which suggests a major centralization of the land’s wealth. The rulers most likely introduced a system of plantation farming. They claimed large tracts of riverside land and cleared them of trees. Then they dug ditches from the river to irrigate the newly denuded areas. Instead of growing scattered gardens of many useful plants, the supervisors probably reserved their best fields for crops of a single species, and weeded out all other plants. The workers who did this may have been slaves, hired hands, or villagers required to donate days of labor. They probably worked under command, and not for themselves.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      Strong government. Eventually leads to collapse of society.
  • The Harappan cities of wood-fired brick, the large granaries, and the bones of wild animals (including bears, crocodiles, elephants, tigers and forest squirrels) from Harappan times, all suggested that the environment of Pakistan was once far greener. But as mentioned before, recent studies of soil and climate show no significant decline of rainfall over the course of history. Jacquetta Hawkes says the old vegetation was destroyed “not by a loss of rainfall, but by tree-felling and the grazing of goats and sheep
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      The Harappans destroyed their environment.
  • Such deforestation tends to produce water logging on a flood plain, because trees constantly pump the groundwater up to their leaves. Removing the trees halts most of the pumping.
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  • As for irrigation, both the Harappans and Mesopotamians channeled water onto their fields with little provision for drainage. When the soil grew waterlogged, mineral salts floated up to accumulate in the topsoil. We have evidence that the Harappans spread gypsum on their fields, which is an old treatment for salt contamination.[xvii] Given enough time, periodic floods from the Indus would naturally wash away the saline deposits. But it seems the Harappan farming methods polluted the soil faster than the river cleaned it.
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      Thanasis Kouris on 29 Sep 09
       
      More destruction of the environment.
  • The slow decline of Harappan towns suggests a gradual slide toward environmental poverty
  • denuded the land around their rivers, the basins filled more rapidly with silt, choking the Indus in mud. Where accumulations filled the riverbed, the Indus broke its banks and roamed like a thrashing snake over central Pakistan. This is how rivers behave in desert regions. The Harappan cities were built on massive embankments of earth to escape floods. Yet even some raised towns show signs of inundation. The shifting rivers left other settlements high and dry, such as the ruins by the banks of the old Sarasvati.
  • Some towns were destroyed quite early, around 2000 BCE. Others lingered about five centuries more. In those centuries, town residents increasingly cannibalized the old buildings for brick and wood. New construction no longer followed any master plan. The Harappan writing fell from use. Finally, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were sacked, with a few dead bodies left in the streets. Probably most of the population had already left.
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