- Week 5 Intro Video [watch]
Week 5 Topics:
- Recovery and Re-unification
- The Middle Kingdom: Stability and Feudal Rivalries
- Collapse of the Middle Kingdom
- Second Intermediate Period
Week 5 Lecture Videos
- The Middle Kingdom [watch] [download]
- Pyramids in the Middle Kingdom: Shifting Economies [watch] [download]
- Middle Kingdom Foreign Policy: Nubia [watch] [download]
- Middle Kingdom: Decline [watch] [download]
- Second Intermediate Period [watch] [download]
Week 5 Readings
- Wegner, Josef (2010). Tradition and Innovation: The Middle Kingdom. In Willeke Wendrich (Ed.), Egyptian Archaeology (pp. 119-142) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (read)
- An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, Chapter 7: The Middle Kingdom andSecond Intermediate Period
Week 5 Assignments
- Blog #5 Due (post Due 8/4 by 5pm, response due 8/7 by 5pm)
The direct link to “The Middle Kingdom” is broken.
It should be:
http://anthropology.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/media/middlekingdom1.flv
I’ve ripped the lecture mp3s and slides for week 05 (17 MB).
http://www.megaupload.com/?f=X7GT6UPZ