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- 1. What are the common markers of material civilization?
Civilizations are defined in a materialistic sense by anthropologists and archaeologists. The most common markers of civilization are cities, bronze technology, writing, ceremonial and religious buildings, large-scale art, hierarchies and class divisions, all bound by some form of law and unified by an organized military force.(Manual p.47) N.Gonzalez To learn more go to [1]
http://appletravel.cn/files/bronzeartifact
A bronze artifcact like this one, is one of the material markers of civilization.
- 2. According to Michael Wood, what do the material markers hide?
- 3. What are the basic tenets of the Modern West?
Page 48-50
- 4. The Sumerians were particularly vulnerable to outside attack. Explain why.
- 5. Explain what Wood means by "landscape and climate are the key determining factors in the rise of civilization."
- 6. What effect did population growth have on the environment?
Page 50-53
- 7. What are the key arts of civilization?
- 8. The ways in which the natural environment influenced religious beliefs in Sumer?
- 9. The basic features of Mesopotamian culture as reflected in its literature and art?
- 10. What was the role of writing in Ancient Sumer?
- 11. What is the enduring legacy of Mesopotamia and why?
- 12. The role of technology in the rise of empires in Mesopotamia?
- 13. How does Wood characterize this civilization and why?
- 14. What were the reasons for the fall of Sumerian civilization?
Page 53-54
- 15. What significant changes in government happened in the shift to the Babylonian Empire?
- 16. The function of written law in ancient Babylon?
*17. ID Hammurabi.
- 18. Explain the Law of Talon? How did influence Hammurabi's code?
Page 55-56
- 19. Using Turner's Theory, explain the physical environment of the Assyrians.
- 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?
- 22. What caused the end of the Assyrian empire? Whose theory best describes the Assyrians?
Page 57-58
- 23. Why and how did the Neo Babylonian empire end?
- 24. What was the legacy of Mesopotamia and how does the manual describe them?
