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History of Horticulture: Lecture 91Lecture 9Lecture 9Ancient Near East Cultures:Sumeria, Babylonia, JudeaThe Fertile Crescent, where agriculture began in 8000 BCESites yield an abundance of terra cotta figures of woman with exaggerated hips and breasts, indicating concerns of fertility as a fundamental principle of survival foragro-pastoral communities. This type of fertility symbol (mother goddess) appeared in the Near East at the end of the 9thmillennium and continued for several more millennia.Female figurines: Terra cotta 5000 BCEGaston LachaiseStanding Woman (Heroic Woman)1932 (cast 1981)History of Horticulture: Lecture 923000 BCE to the current era (birth of Christ) in comparison to Palestine, Egypt, and Greece.Chronology of Mesopotamian civilization5000 BCEUbaid4000 BCEEarlyMiddleUrukLate3100 BCEJemdet Nasr2900 BCEIIIEarly DynasticIII2350 BCEAkkadian2100 BCEUr IIINote: Dates, based principally on radiocarbon determinations, are approximate.Chronological chartLost Culture—Unknown to Herodotus (484–425 BCE) City of UrWriting Developed 3000 BCE (cuneiform)Sumer and Akkad, 3500–2000 BCESource: Harper Atlas of World History (1992)Sumeria 3500–2000 BCEHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 93Uruk ManCanals and Irrigation SystemsZigguratsAn early shaduf, Akkadian period, 3rdmillenium BCESource: Singer et al. (1954)Sumerian AgricultureUruk Vase3500–3000 BCEHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 94History of Horticulture: Lecture 95Writing is inextricably associated with the evolution of agriculture.These 5 Sumerian clay tablets dating to 3000 BCE appear to be associated with crops and livestock.Cuneiform InscriptionsheadrationdisbursementcowplowHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 962100 BCEOldest PrescriptionHoe picked a quarrel with the Plow.Hoe and Plow—this is their dispute.The Disputation Betweenthe Hoe and the PlowHey! Hoe, Hoe, Hoe, tied up with string;Hoe, made from poplar, with a tooth of ash;Hoe, made from tamarisk, with a tooth of sea-thorn;Hoe, double-toothed, four-toothed;Hoe, child of the poor, bereft even of a loin-cloth;History of Horticulture: Lecture 97Hoe cried out to Plow“O Plow, you draw furrows—what is your furrowing to me?You make clods—what is your clod making to me?You cannot dam up water when it escapes.You cannot heap up earth in the basket.You cannot press clay or make bricks.You cannot lay foundations or build a house.You cannot strengthen an old wall’s base.You cannot put a roof on a man’s house.O Plow, you cannot straighten a street.O Plow, you draw furrows—what is your furrowing to me?You make clods—what is your clod-making to me?”The Plow cries out to the Hoe“I, I am Plow, I was fashioned by the great powers, assembled by noblest hands!I am the mighty registrar of God Enlil!I am the faithful farmer of Mankind!At the celebration of my harvest-festival in the fields,Even the King slaughters cattle for me, adding sheep!He pours out libations for me, and offers the collected liquids!Drums and tympans sound!The king himself takes hold of my handle-bars;My oxen he harnesses to the yoke;Great noblemen walk at my side;The nations gaze at me in admiration,The Land watches me in Joy!Two-wheeled carts drawn by asses or oxen were developed at the end of the 4thmillennium for use on flat land. Over uneven terrain goods were transported on the backs of asses which could cover 20 km per day.Terra Cotta Wagons 2500 BCEHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 98Semitic king23rdcentury BCEUr-Nammu: The First MosesFounded the Akkadian-Summerian Empire“The river bore me away and bore me to Akki the irrigator (who) received me in the goodness of his heart and reared me in boyhood. Akki, the irrigator made me a gardener. My service as a gardener was pleasing to Istarand I became King”The Legendary Sargon I (2334–2279 BCE)History of Horticulture: Lecture 99Source: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992Babylonian scratch plow with seed drill.Source: Singer et al. (1954).Drinking beer through tubes from a Syrian seal.Moulds may have been used in the production of bread and pastries, and perhaps for cheese.Terra cotta and kitchen imprints from city-state of Mari (1800 BCE)History of Horticulture: Lecture 910King of Babylon Code of HammurabiNebuchadnezzar(villain in the Book of Daniel)Hammurabi (1795–1750 BCE)Code ofHammurabi(1795–1750 BCE)A Sampling of Laws Relating to Agriculture64 If a man gives his orchard to a gardener to pollinate (the date palms), as long as the gardener is in possession of the orchard, he shall give to the owner of the orchard two thirds of the yield of the orchard, and he himself shall take one third.65 If the gardener does not pollinate the (date palms in the) orchard and thus diminishes the yield, the gardener [shall measure and deliver] a yield for the orchard to the owner of the orchard in accordance with his neighbor’s yield.The Laws of HammurabiHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 911God pollinating the date palmSource: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992Assyrian Dam of rough masonry and mortared rubble, curved to withstand the flow of the river Khosr above NinevehHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 912Raising river water with shaduf using a double lift.The shadufs, on mud uprights, stand at two levels on the river bank utilizing a brick platform built out into the water.From the palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, Mesopotamia 7thCentury BCE.Assyrian IrrigationSource Science 293:32 (2001).Hanging Gardens of Babylon. A 19thcentury conception.Source: Berrall (1966).Ziggurat of Aqua Quaf, 1400 BCEMap of fields and irrigation canals near Nippur, Mesopotamia from cuneiform tablet, ca 1300 BCE (left). Translation (right).History of Horticulture: Lecture 913“Symbolic” palmSource: Gothein 1966.Primitive drawing Date palmTree Representations in AssyriaWild grape trained on a tree, relief from NinevehThe Nile gods of Upper and Lower Egypt symbolically binding stalks of papyrus into the same bundle to represent the unification of Egypt.Ivory plaque 800 BCE in Syria (left) based on Egyptian presence. Compare with Egyptian painting (right).History of Horticulture: Lecture 914Source: Harper Atlas of World History, 1992Source: Harper Atlas of World History (1992)1600–587 BCEJudea and Ancient Israel1600–587 BCESource: Harper Atlas of World History (1992)Judea and Ancient IsraelHistory of Horticulture: Lecture 915And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of wine. (Genesis 9:20–21)…and they shall beat


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