Answer the following questions:
1. What are the contributions of the early mesopotamian societies
to the world?
2. What is the effect of instituting laws, like the Hammurabi code, to
govern society?
3. Give some Christian beliefs and stories that might
have been derived from early mesopotamia.
4. How is cuneiform writing done? Why do the mesopotamians
use writing? (give reasons)
5. What is the status of women in mesopotamian society? Give
examples.
6. Why is the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" considered one of the
wonders of the ancient world?
7. Why did the ancient people start to live in cities and stopped
being nomads?
8. Why are the lives of the early mesopotamians strongly influenced
by religion?
9. What could be the reasons why there is constant fighting
going on
in mesopotamia, i.e., one society conquering another society?
10. How does the environment
of the place affect the life of the people? (in arts and architecture)
