Overview
Instructions:
- Each question should be answered in 1-2 paragraphs (per question).
- Must incorporate at least one primary source (historical document) for each question.
- Use all sources assigned in class NONE from outside (do not use history.com for example). Assigned sources include the E-textbook the E-sourcebook, the lecture slides, and posted documentaries (the ones that are available for extra credit or embedded in the lecture slides which are themselves also available for extra credit).
- What does this image depict and how does it highlight some key differences in religious views between Egyptians and Mesopotamians?
- https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.3cmedia/u_10182/6615/Early_Western_Civilizations_Mesopotamia_Egypt_and_the_Hittites.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA2L2HW7DJ4FUADVWR&Expires=1713389512&Signature=PKqVGaoDYqwFkguyeOHGUH30dtc%3D
From E-Book. Remembering the Dead in Ancient Egypt This is an illustration on papyrus from a copy of the Book of the Dead)
2.This is a picture of the preserved Gates of Ishtar (the gates to the kingdom of NeoBabylon which are also shown in the Week 2 lecture slide) that were constructed in 575 BCE under the direction of King Nebuchadnezzar II (just 36 years before the Persians overthrew Neo-Babylonia). Correlate this massive construction project with the construction of the Pyramids during the Old Kingdom in Egypt (specifically, consider what what type of conditions are required in order to construct structures like these). Then, in a second paragraph describe the role of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in relation to the history of the Isrealites. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.3cmedia/u_10182/6616/Near_East_Empires_and_Hebrew_Monotheism.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA2L2HW7DJ4FUADVWR&Expires=1713389651&Signature=1N3bHcd8SBGwKSoE%2BK7D%2Bied27Q%3D
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3.This is a statuette of Socrates. In looking at the statue and based upon what you have learned in the textbook, lecture slides, and Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Describe the political context surrounding Socrates trial and execution. In what ways did Socrates physically, socially, and professionally go against Athenian social and professional norms?
4. In 27 BCE The Principate was created which ended the Roman Republic and began the era of the Roman Empire. That said, Octavian (who henceforth was titled Augustus) worked hard to try to keep the semblance (or appearance) that Rome wasn’t becoming a monarchy. Why was this political important for Romans? And in what was does this cameo (broach) unmask that façade?
Cameo Celebrating Augustus (from the E book)
5. This is the Dome of the Rock (image taken from week 8 lecture slide), built during the period of the Umayyad Caliphate and still located in Jerusalem. In what was does its construction and choice of placement reflect the relationship between Western history up to the 7th century and the rise of Islam. In otherwards, in what ways is Islam a continuation of the Western religious history and in what ways were the Caliphates correct in describing themselves as heirs of Rome
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