HST380.17 Ancient Greek History (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

History of the East and Egypt

• Introduction: Sources, geographical context and chronology
• Near East and Egypt to the late 3rd millennium BCE: Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Ur III
• The first half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Middle Kingdom in Egypt
• The second half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Egyptian New Kingdom, the kingdom of Mitanni, Hittite New Kingdom, Assyrian Middle Kingdom and Babylonian house
• The First millennium in the Middle East and Egypt: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian kingdoms

History of Greece

• Environment and culture of the Mediterranean
• The beginnings of Greek civilization: Crete and the Mycenaean world
• Greece in the Dark Ages
• Archaic Greece
• The splendor of Greek civilization: the 5th century BCE
• Greece in the 4th century BCE: the rise of Macedonia

(19013, Historia de Grecia Antigua)

Department: History

Location: Liberal Arts at UAM

Credits: 3