ANE Pre-History
Egypt
History
Mesopotamia History
Syro-Palestine History
Iconography
100

The period before Sumerian culture took over Mesopotamia. 

What is Ubaid?

100
Period when Egyptian pyramids were first built.

What is the Old Kingdom? 

100

2288 BCE

What is the Accession of Sargon of Akkad. 

100

3rd-millennium site where thousands of texts were found in an indigenous Semitic language. 

What is Ebla? 

100

Two things to look for when "reading" and ANE image/icon. 

What are 'symbols' and syntax? 

200

The process of CULTURAL unification of Egypt. 

What is Naqadization?

200

Ruler who built the first true Egyptian (stepped) pyramid? 

Who is Djoser? 

200

Period that saw the rise of truly "large" city-states in ancient Mesopotamia. 

What is the Uruk period?

200

Ruler of Byblos who left a coffin inscription in Phoenician, one of the earliest exemplars of this language. 


Ahiram/Ahirom

200

Modern Assyriologist who argues that "symbols" and characters in ANE iconography are not mere representations, but actually carry the presence of the thing they depict. 

Zainab Bahrani

300

Last period of pre-history in Mesopotamia, where we first start to see the appearance of writing. 

What is Uruk III. 

300

Three Egyptian periods that come in-between the three major "kingdoms." 

What are the three intermediate periods?


300

Two major empires vying for control of Mesopotamia throughout the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. 

What are Assyria and Babylon? 

300

Dates between which we texts were written in Ugaritic. 

What is 1400-1200? 


300

Particular iconographic trope that identifies deities in both Mesopotamian and Egyptian iconography. 

What is the crown? Bonus point: Name one Mesopotamian and one Egyptian kind of deity crown? 


400

3500-3100 BCE (Period)

What is the Late Uruk Period?

400

Egyptian period with only a single king who converted Egyptian religion to worship solely the deity Aten, moved the Egyptian capital, and changed his own name to Akhenaten. 

What is the Amarna Period? 

400

The most well-preserved copy of the Sumerian King List, found in Larsa. 

What is the Weld-Blundell Prism? 

400

Location where early alphabetic texts begin to emerge in the "Proto-Canaanite" or "Early Alphabetic" language? 

Where is Sinai? 

400

Female-style figurines from Iron Age Syro-Palestine, especially Jerusalem, that may depict a goddess. 

What are JPFs? 

500
"Large" settlement in Mesopotamia during the prehistoric period spanning about 25 acres. 

What is Eridu? 

500

Rulers of Egypt from 1700-1550 BCE. 

Hyksos

500

Culture that conquered Mesopotamia and Syro-Palestine in the mid-1st millennium BCE. 

Who are the Neo-Babylonians? 

500

Year of the Late Bronze Age Collapse. 

When is 1177 BCE? 

500

Symbol in Egyptian iconography that symbolizes life and healing. 

Hint: this symbol is held by hands extending from the sun in Amarna-period art. 

What is the Ankh? 
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