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?