Unit 1 covers the Ancient Near East from pre-civilization and earliest Bronze-Age civilizations down to the 500s b.c.e. and the rise of the Persian Empire.

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Mesopotamia

1.3 Egypt

1.4 Worldview of Mesopotamians and Egyptians

1.5 The Catastrophe of 1200 b.c.e.

1.6 Syria-Palestine

1.7 Assyria

1.8 Persia

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