Critical Thinking Questions
1. What do you think was the most important result of civilization? Why?
2. What hypothesis might you form based on the fact that a primitive language has never been discovered?
3. If language did evolve, do you believe the imitation hypotheses or the necessity hypotheses are more likely? Why?
4. Why do you think the Code of Hammurabi had so many laws (282)?
5. Why was bartering the most effective form of currency on the ancient trade routes?