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Question 1: What difference did the invention of watermills make to Greek and Roman civilization?
Question 2: Why does the archaeological site at Abu Hureyra matter for the history of energy transitions?
Question 3: What do you think is the biggest single advantage of an agricultural lifestyle as opposed to relying only on foraging, and what is the single biggest disadvantage?
Question 4: How do the changes in energy technology that we have looked at so far seem to have been related to changes in human diseases?
Question 5: Is it important to understand the "fall" of the Roman empire? Why?
Question 6: How does an understanding of the available energy technologies help us with the history of a complex pre-industrial society such as Classical (5th and 4th century BC) Athens?
Question 7: How, and how far, does Hesiod's Works and Days support Ian Morris's arguments about the values held in farming societies?
Question 8: What were the most important contributions, in energy terms, that non-human animals made in pre-mechanised agriculture?