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1. What is the legitimation of authority ?

2. How was it practiced in Sumer?

3. How are bureaucrats, writing and the calendar connected?

4. Define polytheism.

5. Was there a belief in the afterlife in Sumerian religion?

6. Define law and give its three characteristics. The definition of law: (1) : a binding custom or practice of a community : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority. Also: a rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe.<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/law> Law was essential in the first civilizations because it organized eveything about the communities and kept records and became government eventually. King Hammurabi is famous for his early set of laws for Mesopotamia, He made 200 laws during his time. The three characteristics of law: To bring justice and order to a society. To settle the petty differences between men. To be applicable to all.<http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_characteristics_of_law#>

7. What is Lex talonis?

8. How did the monarchy change during the Old Babylonian period?

9. Hammurabi's Code reflected a change in law. What was that change?

10. What group was forced to move from Judah to Babylon? What as their social status?

11. How was the Semitic domination of Mesopotamia ended?

12. Why are the Hittites on of the most significant peoples in Mesopotamian history?

13. How did law change under the Hittites?

14. What was the Assyrian policy toward conquered peoples and what was the result of this policy?

15. How do we know about Mesopotamian culture, myth and literature?

16. What were some of the innovations in warfare begun by the Assyrians?