Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Superpowers of the Ancient World: the Near East
This online course explored four Near-Eastern cultures prevalent in the Late Bronze Age. Course content covered major historical events, a communication section for each language, and basic skills in archaeological enquiry.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr. Glenn Godenho
Lecturer in Egyptology
University of Liverpool
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore a number of Near Eastern cultures that existed within a set time period in the Late Bronze Age (1500 – 1200 BC), and how they interacted with each other over time
- Investigate evidence in order to critically evaluate interpretations of the past
- Engage with the languages and scripts of Egypt and the Near East as a foundation which they can then build on in future Ancient World courses
Syllabus
- The Expulsion of the Hyksos and the Dawn of Egypt’s International Age
- Communicating with the Past: Hieroglyphs
- Egypt in Syria-Palestine and the Battle of Megiddo
- The Rise of the Mitannians
- The Hittite expansion and the Battle of Kadesh
Issued on 19th January 2022
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