HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION I
Study Guide and Question for

Topic 2:
Pre-Islamic Politics and Society in the Middle East

 

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Identification Items:
Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.
Sumerians, Semitic, Philip of Macedonia, Anatolia, Ghassanids,  Byzantine Empie at 600 CE, Augustus, Justinian, Monophysite, Diophysite, Coptic Christianity, Lakhmids, Zorastrianism, Patriarch of Antioch, Patriarch of Constantinople, Khusrau II Parvez, Emperor Phocas, Emperor Heraclius, Marionite Christianity, Sassanian Empire,Achaemenid Empire,  Ardashyir Papagan, Bahram Chobin (628 CE), Yazdgard III, Ahura Mazda, Hepthalites, Khurasan, Ostans or Kuras, Suren Family, Karen Family, Mihran Family, Lesser Aristocracy of Iran (Dihqans), Zorastrianism, Magi, Nestorian Christianity, Kurds, Aramaic, Sabaeans, Mineans, Nabateans, Petra, Palmyra, Himyarite, North Arabs,  Sheikh, Jahiliyah, Diyafah (Hospitality), Dhu Nuwas (515 CE), Bedouin, Jazirat al-'Arab, Break in the Ma'rib Dam (541 and 570 CE)

Topics for Study

1.  Discuss the political, economic, social, international, and religious problems confronting the Byzantines and Sassanians prior to the Islamic conquest.
2.  In what ways did the environmental conditions of the Arabian Peninsula shape the cultural development of the people?  Give examples.
3.  Contrast the social, political and religious structure of the South Arabs;  North Arabs.

Reading Assignment

Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapter 2
 

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