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Provide comprehensive answers for each of the following questions. Each answer must be AT LEAST half a page long (single-spaced, standard margins, font 12, not including the question). The maximum length of the answer is one full page. Your answers must be based on the PowerPoint lectures and/or the video-documentary assignments; you may use the textbook, but no more than 10% of the content of you answer can come from that source. Use of any external sources is not allowed and will lead to a zero on the question even if the sources are paraphrased or cited.
Transcribing long segments from the lectures, textbook, and/or documentary will lead to a zero on the question even if the sources are cited. Any plagiarized material will lead to a zero on the whole assignment. Use of any external digital programs or platforms, such as paraphrasing tools or AI programs, falls in under the category of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Answer and number each question separately. I want you to express your understanding of the issues with your own thoughts and words.
1. During the Neolithic Revolution, after hunting-gathering, other forms of human production and lifestyles developed; these are linked to the domestication of plant and animal species. Discuss those forms of human life and production. Explain the process of domestication of plants and animals during pre-historic and proto-historic times? How did this revolution in production change the way of life of humans biologically, socially, and culturally? Where do we find evidence of these changes? Provide specific examples.
2. Based on the documentary The Journey of Man, how can geneticists trace the origins of the human species and their distribution from Africa into the rest of the planet? Provide specific examples. Why did the physical appearance of humans change as they came ot inhabit different habitats? What is the specific genetic information found by Spencer Wells in South Africa among the San people and in Siberia among the Chukchi? What is the significance of those to groups in our understanding of the human journey.
3. What is the difference between the early agricultural settlements in the Fertile Crescent, such as Çatal Huyük or Jericho and the Sumerian cities? Why is one considered the beginning of civilization and not the other? When answering the questions, provide explanations of the political, social, and economic organization, as well as cultural development.
4. What is the nature of the relationship between Sumerians and Akkadians? How is the relationship expressed in the legend of Sargon the Great? Do you think the legend of Sargon is historically true (explain why or why not)? How is the state created by Sargon different from the previous Sumerian states?
5. Discuss the evolution of law codes in ancient Mesopotamia. Why are they being produced? Why does the Code of Hammurabi stand out among the other codes? How does the code reflect the social and gender differences that existed in Mesopotamia? Use specific examples.
Please answer all questions from the PowerPoint and the YouTube video. You can use the book only 10%
Topic to be covered/Resources Utilized/Type of Assignment to be completed
PowerPoint Lecture 1: Origins of Man/Neolithic Revolution
PP Lecture 2: The Sumerians
PP Lecture 3: Akkad and Old Babylon
Documentary: The Journey of Man