Describe the art of the Upper Paleolithic, including murals and portable objects

1.Describe the art of the Upper Paleolithic, including murals and portable objects.2.Discuss the biological bases of culture, namely language, the ability to make and use tools, and bipedalism.3.What were the Mesolithic and the Neolithic? In what ways were they important to the humanities and culture in the sense of the humanities?4.Describe the pantheons for Egypt, Mesopotamia, and classical Greece. Who were the gods and goddesses in each case?5.Describe the main strands of Greek philosophy, including the pre-Greek philosophers, the Sophists, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.6.Describe the main themes of Greek architecture7.Who was Gilgamesh, and in what ways does he set the themes for Mesopotamian art, myth, and society?8.Describe the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the beliefs about the fate of the Dead after their demise.9.Do you identify precursors in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Greek society to later European society in the medieval periods? What might they be?10.Discuss the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and Narmer’s (Menes’s) role in this unification.11.Explain royal incest among the Egyptians and explain how this violates the incest tabu. What was the reason for Egyptian royalty to practice it?12.Describe Roman law. .13.Compare Egyptian law with that in Mesopotamia. What was Hammurabi’s contribution?14.Compare and contrast the hieroglyphic writing of Egypt with the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia.15.Describe the evolution of cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia.16.Describe the meticulous urban planning of Mohenjo-Daro and the other cities in the Harappan tradition.17.According to Macintosh, Mohenjo-Daro and the other cities were examples of peaceable societies. What is the evidence that might lead to this conclusion?18.Compare and contrast the Egyptian pyramids with the Mesopotamian ziggurats. Include in your discussion their purpose and function, their construction techniques, and the societies they represented.19.Explain the Egyptian preoccupation with death and the afterlife.20.Explain the possible function of animal representations in Paleolithic cave art.21.Compare and contrast the political roles of the Egyptian pharaohs with those of the priest-kings of Mesopotamia.22.What is the difference between Greek tragedy and comedy? How do they differ from today’s conception of the two genres? In connection with this question, define tragic flaw (hubris). From what you saw in Oedipus Rex, would an ordinary person be of interest in Greek tragedy?23.In what fundamental ways did Hellenic Greece differ from Hellenistic Greece? You will need to review the last section of Chapter 5 to answer this question.24.Describe the beliefs of the Stoics, the Cynics, the Skeptics, and the Epicureans in Hellenistic thought.25.Describe the major innovations of Roman architecture: the vault, the arch, and the dome.26.What philosophical beliefs came to Rome from Hellenistic Greece?27.Describe the Roman style of military organization and strategy, including Josephus’s description.28.Compare and contrast Republican Rome with Imperial Rome. How did the imperial expansion eliminate the democratization process in the city state?29.Describe the Pax Romana under Caesar Augustus and his successors.