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Assignment:
1. Reflect on any three innovations and/or limitations that contributed to the development, rise and/or fall the societies. What were the successes and failures that contributed the most to the rise and fall of these cultures? Did the same success or failure impact more than one culture's rise or fall? How so, or why not? Please support your answer with details from the text and lectures.
2. Also read one of these sources before replying to the rest of this prompt. It may be the same or different than your choice for the first primary source journal:
Reading from Sargon the GreatDownload Reading from Sargon the Great
"The Code of Hammurabi"
The Code of Hammurabi Download The Code of Hammurabi(an alternate excerpt)
The Babylonian Creation StoryDownload The Babylonian Creation Story
Excerpt from the Epic of GilgameshDownload Excerpt from the Epic of Gilgamesh
"An Assyrian Woman Writes to Her Husband"
"A Hymn of Zoroaster about the Spirits of Good and Evil"
Which primary source did you choose to read for this module? As you read about and study Mesopotamian cultures like the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Persians, what aspects of those societies (think religion, customs, economy, military, gender roles, class, etc) did this primary source relate to, and for which culture? Using specific examples, explain what this primary source shows us about that aspect of that culture and the author's point of view. How does that compare or contrast with the other cultures we've studied in this module?