Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 2, you should be able to:

• Identify all the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Describe the development of writing.

• Know the main sites, civilizations, and rulers.

• Know the gods and their functions.

• Discuss iconography, convention, and style.

• Know the main types of works, their function and meaning.

• List examples of historical "firsts."

• Compare Mesopotamian with Achaemenid forms.

• Discuss the issue of provenience and its importance.

• Describe the development of post and lintel from Neolithic to Persian.

• Locate the main Near Eastern civilizations on a map of the region.