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A Little History of the World
by E. H. Gombrich
Chapters 1-7
Once Upon a Time
mirrors
Medical school in England, translated in 18 languages
languages stickers on luggage with physician on street
Book stopped by Nazis for 30 years
dusty book in abandoned house
Makes you dizzy
burning light down well with truffle
Used to be dragon like creatures
museum dinosaur
Started with snail like creatures before plants existed... 50 millions of years
snails
The Greatest Inventors of All Time
Caveman stronger chewers but not thinkers
jaw underground and thick forehead on caveman
Invented stone tools, roasting meat to make easier to chew, drawings, talking, fire
caveman in cave doing these things
Lived 230,000 years ago
nami in cave
The Land by the Nile
King Menes around 3100 BC
Matt making sauce with mini pharohs
Nile floods twice per year
Flooding town
Pyramids/mountains built to mummify
belief in afterlife
furniture by coffin underground
Hyrogliphic writings like ironed people
Amon, sun god
sun with amen posture
Tradition was important
repeat sign by pharoh
Swallows fly to Egypt in the autumn
flying birds by autumn leaves
Enforced slave labor
hippo whip crack
Sunday, Monday
Mesopatamia = between the two rivers (Tigris & Euphrates) in Middle East; land of Ur where Abraham was
Babylonians, capital Babylon, and Assyrians, capital Ninevah
Hills in Mesopatamia are actually piles of rubble from sun baked bricks of the city
Inscriptions on sun baked clay (Cuneiform...)
Code of Hammurabi around 1700BC
Tigis and king
The One and Only God
The Jews were different because everyone else worshipped many different Gods; Baal vs. God of Israel
The Bible so much more full of ancient history accounts than any other book;
bible with stories popping out
Israelites separate from neighbors
First OT written down around 400-500BC
I C-A-N R-E-A-D
Phoenicians, as merchants, invented the 26 letter alphabet
Heroes and Their Weapons
Truth in the Story of Homer;
burnt city uncovered around 1400 (tar)
Pottery is dated as a time period because it goes in/out of style
The king of Crete might have required human tribute/sacrifices (like the Minotaur)
Chapters 15-21
Chapters 22-28
Chapters 8-14
An Unequal Struggle
The Greeks were once just tribes of people, and rich merchants when the Persians hit the seen around 550-500 BC
Two Small Cities in One Small Land
Persians lived on mountains, dominated by other nations
Decided they had enough and conquered their rulers and Egypt in one fell swoop
Built roadways and expected people to obey them
Greeks wouldn't have it, fought 7:1 battle, and won, 490BC
Marathon to Athens to protect it
Xerxes fought them again, 300 Spartan warriors, mountain pass
Trick to have Xerxes attack their fleets as they run, he fell for it and the Greeks won
Things always changing/evolving in Athens
The Enlightened One and His Land
A Great Teacher of a Great People
The Greatest Adventure of All
New Wars and New Warriors
An Enemy of History
Chapters 36-40
Chapters 29-35