Ancient Near and Middle East Study Guide
Rulers
- How Did Antiochus III Influence the Hellenistic World?
- How Did Nebuchadnezzar Impact Ancient Near Eastern History?
- How Did Sargon of Akkad Influence Ancient Mesopotamian History?
- What Gods Did Darius "the Great" Worship?
Ancient Near and Middle East Empires
- How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall?
- How Did the Elamites Become a Powerful Bronze Age People?
- How Did the Seleucid Empire Collapse?
- How Did the Ur III Dynasty Impact Ancient Mesopotamian History?
- How Were the Assyrians able to Conquer the Ancient Near East
- What Was the Importance of Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia?
- What Was the Significance of the Near East Middle Bronze Age System?
- Why Did Babylon Collapse in the Late Bronze Age?
- Why Was the Parthian Empire So Powerful?
- How Were the Achaemenid Persians Able to Rule Such a Vast Empire?
- Why Were the Phoenicians Such Successful Merchants?
- Where Was the Kingdom of Alashiya?
Booklists for the Bronze Age
- The Bronze Age Economy and Trade Top Ten Booklist
- Bronze Age (3200-1200 BC) Economy and Trade in the Near East Top Ten Booklist
Impact of Ancient Near and Middle Empires
- How Was History Written in the Ancient Near East?
- How Was Science Practiced in Ancient Babylon?
- How did the concept of paradise develop?
- What are the Origins of Astronomy?
- How did Manufactured Glass Develop in the Bronze Age?
- How did Medicine develop in the Ancient World?
- What Factors Led to the Creation of the First Cities?
- How did Navigation Develop in the Ancient World?
- How Did Early Mathematics Evolve?
- What is the history of creation mythologies?
- Why Were there Multiple Ancient Mesopotamian Creation Myths?
- Where did Social Inequality Develop in the Ancient World?
- Why did museums develop?
- How did police departments form?
- How Did Firefighting Develop?
- How did zoos develop?
- How did taxation emerge?
- How Was History Written in the Ancient Near East?
- What is the history of New Year celebrations?
- How Was Science Practiced in Ancient Babylon?
- What happened to the ark of the covenant?
- What Were Some of the Influences on Hittite Religion?