Mesopotamia Writing Reasoning And The Gods Analysis

In this excerpt from “Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods”, the writer starts by introducing us the history of Mesopotamia and the kind of sources that helped us understand its religious system. Although, the Mesopotamian religious model started off as a multitude of different and equal god, this system evolved with the political system to later become a monarchy of gods. According to the author, the region of Mesopotamia was first populated by the Semites, which came from the fringes of the great Syro-Arabian desert. Over time, these people mingled with the Sumerians. Initially, they had different languages, but slowly Sumerian was forgotten and Akkadian, the Semites native language, become their common language. They soon founded