Identify each of the people/objects/places/terms/events below. In a short answer, explain why are they significant and how they influenced Early Western History?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Valley of the Kings
Chauvet Caves
Cuneiform
Hammurapi
Lucy
Akhenaten
Neolithic Period
Assyrians
Ur
The Tanakh
Cyrus the Great
Fertile Crescent
Thera
Ötzi
The Phoenicians
Solomon’s Temple
The Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Zoroastrianism
The Battle of Kadesh
Section II ( for this section answer each question at least 125 words ).
Directions: Be prepared to answer the following questions. Answer the question completely and include some discussion of primary sources, where appropriate, to support your answer.
What factors spurred the development of written scripts? How did the development of written scripts affect the societies that developed them?
Compare the Neo-Assyrian state and Persian Empire. How did they form different types of states? How did each try to integrate its realms?
Why was the Nile ‘central’ to life in Egypt?
How did the cultures of the Minoans and Mycenaeans contribute to the development of Greece?
Describe the reforms of Akhenaten and discuss his role as a ‘revolutionary’.
Compare the Minoan and Egyptian cultures, particularly in terms of art, architecture, and world view.
Discuss the problems of interpreting Neolithic culture.
Discuss the agricultural and technological revolutions of early humans and their impact on the development of early societies.
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