Anthropology 114
Prof. Varisco
Fall 1999
 
A114 Critical Analysis of Reading (CAR) #1
Due 9/16/99
 
Pierre Montet (1981) "Scribes and Judges" (pp. 252-273)
 
[Read the selected assignment through and mark what you think are the important points. With the book open, go back through the reading and answer the following questions or directions. Focus on the reading, but try to add other supporting information learned in the course. The questions below are arranged according to section number. You may write your response here (if you need more space, attach a blank sheet) or type it. Number each response but do not repeat the question.]
 
1. (#2) Describe a typical student and what that student would do in a school for training scribes and officials.
 
2. (#4) How did Pharaohs and other notables try to keep their tombs from being looted and why did some people rob these tombs? Give at least two specific examples.
 
3. (#6) If you were a foreign dignitary visiting Egypt, why might you be there and what things would you bring for the Egyptian monarchs and notables?
A114 Critical Analysis of Reading (CAR) #2
Due 11/2/99
 

H. W. F. Saggs (1989) "Trade" (pp. 128-155)

[Read the selected assignment through and mark what you think are the important points. With the book open, go back through the reading and answer the following questions or directions. Focus on the reading, but try to add other supporting information learned in the course. You may write your response here (if you need more space, attach a blank sheet) or type it. Number each response but do not repeat the question.]

 

1. Identify two trade items that indicated high status in the ancient Near East. Explain where they were traded from and why they were valued?
 
2. What were the commercial or economic motives behind the expansion of Sargon's (Sharum-kin) empire in third millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamia? Be specific.
 
3. What was it like to be a merchant in ancient Ugarit (in North Syria)? How were you treated? How did you make a profit? What kinds of things was it good to trade?