Between the rivers : the history of ancient Mesopotamia

Content: Part 1. The rise of civilizaton. Lecture 1. The Iraq Museum --
Lecture 2. Geography and environment --
Lecture 3. Discovering Mesopotamia --
Lecture 4. Archaeological methods --
Lecture 5. Farming and early settlements --
Lecture 6. The Uruk phenomenon --
Lecture 7. Writing --
Lecture 8. Temples --
Lecture 9. Mesopotamian deities --
Lecture 10. Gilgamesh--
hero and king --
Lecture 11. The early dynastic period --
Lecture 12. Warfare and diplomacy. Part 2. The great city-states. Lecture 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur --
Lecture 14. The Akkadians --
Lecture 15. Ideology of kingship --
Naram-Sin and Gudea --
Lecture 16. The Ur III dynasty --
Lecture 17. Life in a Mesopotamian city --
Lecture 18. Food and drink --
Lecture 19. Assyrian trade networks --
Lecture 20. Hammurabi of Babylon --
Lecture 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari --
Lecture 22. Laws --
Lecture 23. Medicine, science, and math --
Lecture 24. Poetry and literature. Part 3. Empires of the East. Lecture 25. Internationalism --
Lecture 26. Assyrian expansion --
Lecture 27. Sargon II --
Lecture 28. Ideology of empire --
Lecture 29. Control and revolt --
Lecture 30. Medes and the neo-Babylonian state --
Lecture. 31. The rise of the Achaemenids --
Lecture 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece --
Lecture 33. Xerxes\'s invasion of Greece --
Lecture 34. Persian and art culture --
Lecture 35. Alexander the Great --
Lecture 36. After Alexander.