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WiSe 22/23: Agriculture, Slavery and the State in the Ancient World

Cale Johnson

Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

For this course it is not possible to enrol via Campus Management. Please enrol via the form "Modul-, Lehrveranstaltungs- und Prüfungsanmeldung" when you decided to take the course. You can find the form on the website of the Studienbüro Geschkult. Please submit this document to the Studienbüro within the same time frame you would have to enrol in your courses via Campus Management. The workload of the course equals 150 hours: attendance 30 hours, preparation and wrap-up 60 hours, exam 60 hours. For questions regarding credits you will have to approach your BA- or MA advisor of your study program." Please register also via email: wissensgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de Schließen

Kommentar

The development of cereal-based agriculture is now often seen as a central factor in the emegence of early states and the domestication of human labor, including different forms of slavery, and the emergence of bookkeeping in the ancient world. This course will look at how agriculture, slavery and bookkeeping interact in the earliest ancient world societies that make use of writing. In Mesopotamia, for example, the administration of human labor was one of the most important arenas in early written culture and conceptualization. It was in this area, which today can be described as “dependent labor” or “slavery" that the most important advances in administrative and legal history took place in the first millennium of cuneiform writing. The course is an ideal introduction to early writing systems and their interactions with social history for students of archaeology or ethnology as well as comparative, global, or legal history. This course will be taught in English. Schließen