BH 178 Questions #1

BH 178 Section 1.4 Questions

Please read pages 13-20 in the BH 178 Workbook. The questions listed below are on page 20. The questions are reproduced here below. Please respond with a comment. And please give additional resources if you have any.

Section 1 introduces us to the history of the Ancient Near East (=ANE). The answers to the section questions are in the workbook, but you can find fuller answers in other places like Kuhrt's 2-volume masterpiece or even iTunes U podcasts. Have fun reading and thinking!

1. What was the difference between the Sumerian and Akkadian political systems?

2. What is known about the city of Ebla?

3. Were Sumerian and Akkadian both Semitic languages?

4. Which form of writing was developed by the Egyptians?

5. What was distinctive to the Egyptian political system?

6. Into which three phases may Egyptian history be divided?

7. What do you know about the city of Amarna?

8. Which region did the Ancient Babylonian Kingdom cover? Who was the ‘founder’ of this kingdom?