Spelade
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Xiaoli introduces us to silver in the Sumerian city of Umma. She explains where it came from and how people got hold of it. Who was able to use it and what for? She tells us how we might understand whether it could be called money. And explains the physical form in which silver circulated.
5:42 What is money?
8:46 Who used silver?
13:00 How they got silver
16:55 Did silver actually circulate?
22:26 How was value set?
Music by Ruba Hillawi
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Many of us have spent a lot of time at home this year. What would that have been like in ancient Babylon? Heather talks about housing in the first millennium BC. What were houses like, who lived in them, and how did they use them? She discusses what houses meant to Babylonians, and how they were split and reconstituted by the family.
2:34 where was housing in the city?4:13 where did people want to live?
6:42 did houses have kerb appeal?
8:54 a typical house
12:17 how rooms were used
15:13 who lived in a typical house?
18:09 keeping a family home
22:04 what about water?
26:01 how did you find where someone lived?
https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/heather-d-baker
https://hcommons.org/members/apkallatu/
https://utoronto.academia.edu/HeatherDBaker
Music by Ruba Hillawi
Website: http://wedgepod.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @wedge_pod
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