• Select three of the following fifteen individuals, places, concepts, or institutions that have been discussed in this class. 
• In your own words briefly identify the basic factual information for the term. 
• Explain why the term is significant for our understanding of the pre-modern civilization that produced it. 
• For each term write approximately 100 words, though quality is more important than quantity.

Abu Hureyra                                  Wu                                                Sargon
Literature vs. Documents               Theravada Buddhism                  Varnas
Ziggurat                                          Papyrus                                       Confucius
Cedar Forest                                  Amun-Re                                      Stupa

• Select any reading passage from the textual primary sources assigned for Module 1 through Module 5 this class (i.e. not an assignment from Guns, Germs and Steel or from Berger, except where Berger is the source for a textual primary source).
• The passage should be one or two chapters/sections/paragraphs or about half a page to a page long.
• Indicate which page or book/chapter/section of the readings you are commenting on.
• Write a brief introduction of about 2 sentences or so that offers basic factual information about the text.
• Explain what general characteristics of the civilization or civilizations represented in text the specific details in the passage reveal.
• You should describe both the significance of specific details from the passage and content from other texts and information about pre-modern civilizations that relates to the passage.
• Your passage commentary should be about 300-500 words long.
• The following are possible passages for comment: 
  •  Epic of Gilgamesh: Prologue, Gilgamesh King in Uruk, The Coming of Enkidu, The Forest Journey [except the 11th paragraph through the 22nd paragraph] 
  •  Hammurabis Law Code: first three paragraphs, laws 6, 8, 15, 53, 108, 110, 127, 129, 137, 195-199, 202, 203, 205 (in Berger, pp. 33-35)
  •  Case Law in Ancient Babylonia Handout: contracts, laws, or rulings
  •  Teachings of Ptah-Hotep, 1, 3-4, 6-8, 11, 16, 18, 20, 24-25, 34, 47 
  •   Herodotus, Histories, proem, 2.5, 2.35-37, 2.58-2.60, 2.99-100, 2.164-168 
  •   Obelisks of Hatshepsut (trans. Singer, pp. 41-42, 42-46)
  •   Rig Veda 2.12, 6.75, 9.112, 10.90, 10.101
  •   Kautilya, Arthashastra I.7, I.19, II.10, III.1, III.13, IV.12
  •   Ashoka, Rock Edicts 12, 13
  •   Selections from Confucius, Analects (pdf on Canvas, or quotations in Berger)
  •   Sima Qian, The First Emperor, assigned passages