Practice question · Put in order
Order these works from earliest to latest.
- Warka Vase (~3200 BCE)
- Ziggurat of Ur (~2100 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi stele (~1750 BCE)
- Standard of Ur (~2600 BCE)
- Stele of Naram-Sin (~2250 BCE)
Hints
- The sequence spans roughly fifteen centuries.
- Each monument argues that the current order is permanent.
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- Warka Vase (~3200 BCE)
- Standard of Ur (~2600 BCE)
- Stele of Naram-Sin (~2250 BCE)
- Ziggurat of Ur (~2100 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi stele (~1750 BCE)
Why
Fifteen centuries of Mesopotamian monuments, and the through-line never changes: each one argues that the current arrangement of power is how the cosmos is built.
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