MHI-01: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOCITIES
Course Code: MHI-01
Assignment Code: MHI-01/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
5. Write short notes on any two of the following in 250 words each: 10+10
i) Arts and communication in hunting gathering societies
ii) Nature of kingship in the Bronze Age societies
iii) The Roman Assembly
iv) Egyptian religion.
ii) Nature of kingship in the Bronze Age societies
It is time we
attempted a definition of the kind of social structure peculiar to the Bronze
Age. This reconstruction shall depend mainly on the Mesopotamian evidence. It
is for this region that thousands of written tablets of the third millennium BC
are available to the historian, which give enormously detailed information. A
large segment of an archive (dozens of clay tablets) for instance, document the
month-by-month work of an official in charge of grain disbursements in one
small centre.
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