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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?