What was the role of women in the four river valleys? What advantages did women have in these developing cultures?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Specialization of roles
1. each sex specialized in certain occupations
2. women's talents became increasingly focused on the family home and child rearing
3. population increase created more strictly domestic work
B. Women were subordinate to men
1. a shift from matrilineal to patrilineal descent
2. birth rates rose rapidly, which tied women to child rearing
3. art depicted women in servile roles
4. men had authority over women in their own households
C. Changes and advantages
1. urban life gave women created new opportunities
a. specialized labor like textiles in Ashur
2. women were not necessarily excluded from power
a. societies employed them as rulers, prophetesses, and priestesses and included them as subjects of art
3. domestic life also gave women opportunities to exercise informal power
a. to initiate divorce, to recover their property, and, sometimes, to win additional compensation on divorce
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