Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia DVD (Course Number 3180, Great Courses) (Teaching Company)

This is Course Number 3180 which contains 6 DVDs and Course Guidebook. Contains 36 lectures of 30 minutes each. Course Lecture Titles 1. The Iraq Museum 2. Geography and Environment 3. Discovering Mesopotamia 4. Archaeological Methods 5. Farming and Early Settlements 6. The Uruk Phenomenon 7. Writing 8. Temples 9. Mesopotamian Deities 10. Gilgamesh-Hero and King 11. The Early Dynastic Period 12. Warfare and Diplomacy 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur 14. The Akkadians 15. Ideology of Kingship-Naram-Sin and Gudea 16. The Ur III Dynasty 17. Life in a Mesopotamian City 18. Food and Drink 19. Assyrian Trade Networks 20. Hammurabi of Babylon 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari 22. Laws 23. Medicine, Science, and Math 24. Poetry and Literature 25. Internationalism 26. Assyrian Expansion 27. Sargon II 28. Ideology of Empire 29. Control and Revolt 30. Medes and the Neo-Babylonian State 31. The Rise of the Achaemenids 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece 33. Xerxes's Invasion of Greece 34. Persian Art and Culture 35. Alexander the Great 36. After Alexander