FOCUS LECTURE: Patriarchy in First Complex Societies
Slides: #6-Patriarchy in early complex societies
Lecture:
- September 23rd at 10:30 am
- No reading.
Pataliputra: Mauryan and Gupta Empires
Slides:
Lecture:
- September 25th at 10:30 am
- Optional background reading for lecture: World History, Chapter 3, pages 81-91.
Assignments
- Remember to post your answer to the question posed on our “Weekly Discussion Forum” on Moodle. You have until Sunday September 29th at midnight to get it done!
Tutorials this week
Tutorials this week will focus on the whole unit “Fields and Rivers”.
Readings (all tutorial readings are in Sources for the Frameworks of World History available for purchase or rent from the UNBC bookstore):
- 3.1 “The Punitive Expedition of Yin from Shu Jing” fromĀ The Classic of History
- 3.2Ā The Code of Hammurabi
- 3.3 “A Peace Treaty between Ramses II and Hattusili III, the Egyptian version”
- 3.4 “The Hymn to Purusha fromĀ The Rig Veda“
- 3.5Ā Harappan Unicorn Seal (this is an image). You can see a clearer version of it here:Ā Harappan Unicorn Seal
Questions to think about:
- Is the āThe Punitive Expedition of Yin from Shu Jingā a primary or secondary source? Can it be both? How is its categorization as a historical source different from āThe Code of Hammurabiā or āA Peace Treaty between Ramses II and Hattusili III, the Egyptian versionā?
- How are visual sources such as āThe Harappan Unicorn Sealā different as primary sources from written ones? What do visuals add to our understand of history?