1. Briefly characterize the cultural contributions of the Ancient Near East. Be sure to discuss developments in many areas: invention, religion, law, science, and literature. There were many of cultural contributions of the Ancient Near East. These cultures gave us our modern religion, the wheel, pottery, farming techniques, each of these contributions are still used this day. In the Ancient Near East they had an ideal climate for agriculture. They grew a wide variety of things …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 488 total…and temples made of granite and sandstone. Many of their accomplishments spread slowly westward in to Phoenicia and Anatolia. Mathematics was also used in law in many of these cultures. All the Babylonian mathematics was transmitted in the case form, introduced by a condition followed by solution. From law it extended to scientific problems, and the form remained the same until well in t! o the first millennium BC in the Sumerian law. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**