*History 8 Mesopotamia Concepts
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1. What are the common markers of material civilization?70
2. According to Michael Wood, what do the material markers hide?
3. What are the basic tenets of the Modern West?
4. The Sumerians were particularly vulnerable to outside attack. Explain why. 71
5. Explain what Wood means by "landscape and climate are the key determining factors in the rise of civilization." 72
6. What effect did population growth have on the environment?
7. What are the key arts of civilization? 74
8. What was the role of writing in Ancient Sumer?
9. The role of technology in the rise of empires in Mesopotamia?
10. How does Wood characterize this civilization and why?
11. What significant changes in government happened in the shift to the Babylonian Empire?75
12. The function of written law in ancient Babylon?
13. ID Hammurabi.
14. Detail ways in which the natural environment influenced religious beliefs in Sumer?76
15. What are the basic features of Mesopotamian culture as reflected in its literature and art?76
17. What were the reasons for the fall of Sumerian civilization? 76
18. Explain the Law of Talon? How did influence Hammurabi's code?77
19. Using Turner's Theory, explain the physical environment of the Assyrians.78
20 Detail the effects of the Assyrian policy of deportation of conquered peoples.
21. What innovations in technology occurred during the Assyrian period and what effects did they have?79
22. What caused the end of the Assyrian empire? Whose theory best describes the Assyrians?
23. Why and how did the Neo Babylonian empire end?80
24. What was the legacy of Mesopotamia and how does the manual describe them?81
