Mesopotamian City-States
Exploring the innovations of Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon, including cuneiform and the Code of Hammurabi.
Key Questions
- 1How did writing change the nature of governance?
- 2To what extent was Hammurabi's Code "just"?
- 3How did irrigation projects require centralized authority?
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