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'''1.  What is the legitimation of authority ?'''
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[[1.  What is the legitimation of authority ?]]
  
'''2.  How was it practiced in Sumer?'''
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[[2.  How was it practiced in Sumer?]]
  
'''3.  How are bureaucrats,writing and the calendar connected?'''
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[[3.  How are bureaucrats, writing and the calendar connected?]]
  
'''4.  Define Polytheism.'''
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[[4.  Define Polytheism.]]
  
'''5.  Was there a belief in the afterlife in Sumerian religion?'''
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[[5.  Was there a belief in the afterlife in Sumerian religion?]]
  
'''6.  Define law and give its three characteristics.'''
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[[6.  Define law and give its three characteristics.]]
               
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'''7.  What is Lex talonis?'''
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'''8How did the monarchy change during the Old Babylonian period?'
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[[7What is Lex talonis?]]
  
'''9Hammurabi's Code reflected a change in law.  What was that change?  Why important ?'''
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[[8How did the monarchy change during the Old Babylonian period?]]
  
'''10. What group was forced to move from Judah to Babylon? What was their social status?'''
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[[9.  Hammurabi's Code reflected a change in law. What was that change? Why important ?]]
  
'''11. How was the Semitic domination of Mesopotamia ended?'''
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[[10. What group was forced to move from Judah to Babylon? What was their social status?]]
  
'''12Why are the Hittites on of the most significant peoples in Mesopotamian history?'''
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[[11How was the Semitic domination of Mesopotamia ended?]]
  
'''13How did law change under the Hittites?'''
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[[12Why are the Hittites one of the most significant peoples in Mesopotamian history?]]
  
'''14What was the Assyrian policy toward conquered peoples and what was the result of this policy?'''
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[[13How did law change?]]
  
'''15How do we know about Mesopotamian culture, myth and literature?'''
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[[14What was the Assyrian policy toward conquered peoples and what was the result of this policy?]]
  
'''16.  What were some of the innovations in warfare begun by the Assyrians?'''
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[[15.  How do we know about Mesopotamian culture, myth and literature?]]
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[[16.  What were some of the innovations in warfare begun by the Assyrians?]]
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[[17. What inventions not related to warfare did the Assyrians make?]]

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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.

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? Why important ?

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

11. How was the Semitic domination of Mesopotamia ended?

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

13. How did law change?

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?

17. What inventions not related to warfare did the Assyrians make?