Calendar

Week	Topic	Reading
1	Recovery of the Ancient Near East	Aldred 7-24; ANE 1-10
2	Prehistory and writing	Aldred 66-83; ANE 10-38
3	Archaic Egypt	Aldred 84-94
4	Early Dynastic Sumer	ANE 39-56
Test
5	Old Kingdom Egypt	Aldred 95-119
6	First Intermediate Period	Aldred 120-126
7	Akkad and the IIIrd Ur Dynasty	ANE 59-79
8	The Early Old Babylonian period	ANE 80-98
9	Age of Hammurabi	ANE 100-118
Test
10	Middle Kingdom Egypt and the Hyksos	Aldred 127-143
11	New Kingdom Egypt	Aldred 144-167
12	The Amarna Age in SW Asia	ANE 121-140
13	Western Asia	ANE 141-160
14	Mesopotamia	ANE 161-178
15	The 12th Century Collapse	ANE 179-194; Aldred 167-170
Final	December 16, 2004 11:00 - 1:00 PM	Strong 450