Your paper must be typed, double-spaced and at least 400 words in length (200 words or more per question). You are asked to read the chapter and then compose your answers. 1. Discuss the conventions of relief sculpture and the idea that such objects “told stories in stone.” Identify the iconography and how it relates to the development of cuneiform writing. 2. Ancient cultures of the Near East followed different spiritual or religious practices. Identify ways in which spiritual beliefs were expressed through objects created in the empires of Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Persia.
