Chapter 2 Study Guide 1. What new technology followed agriculture in defining Mesopotamia? Metallurgy 2. Why did the arts develop in Mesopotamia? As celebrations of the priest-kings’ power 3. What were ziggurats most likely designed to resemble? A mountain 4. Why did visitors to the ziggurats often leave a statue representing themselves? To serve as prayer offerings to the Gods. 5. How did the Mesopotamians view human society? As part of a larger society 6. What
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Since the creation of writing in the Bronze Age‚ scribes have been recording information of both the fictional and nonfictional nature. These stories speak of morals and themes that cross through many cultures. They tell tales of great battles and of natural disasters of epic proportion. One of the most commonly mentioned natural disasters in these stories tells of a great flood. Although the flood story in the Bible and the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh are two different stories‚ they are telling
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The Epic of Gilgamesh The Hebrew Bible: Genesis Metamorphosis Satapatha Brahmana The Epic of Gilgamesh deprived from ancient Mesopotamian times‚ infused with Babylonian culture. The Hebrew Bible is now referred to as the “Old Testament”‚ which is the text the Jewish faith now follow. The Metamorphosis myth was spawned from the Romans. The Satapatha Brahmana tale is from the sacred text of the Hindu people. Prior to the point of the flood story‚ the story was written in the third person omniscient
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem written on stone tablets between 2700 B.C. and around 600 B.C. The Author is an ancient authors of stories that compose poems that are anonymous. This poem is epic and the genre is heroic. All languages were written in cuneiform script. Tablet XI of Gilgamesh was translated and published in 1872.The point of view of this story is third person .Most of the story is told from Gilgamesh and Utnapishtim narrates the flood story in tablet XI. The major conflict of the story
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Have you ever wondered how things as simple as writing were invented? I know I have. Many people in our society take for granted the simple things like written languages‚ or laws. In around 3500 B.C.‚ in what is now present day Iraq (OI)‚ these new inventions were priceless. Many civilizations‚ including Ancient Mesopotamia‚ influenced our world today in many ways. Two contributions from the Mesopotamians Civilization were the cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code. Let’s begin with cuneiform. The ancient
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Ezekiel and Daniel Ezekiel and Daniel both lived during the exile or the Babylonian captivity. They were both prophets of the Lord. Ezekiel was a young priest who was carried away to Babylon during the reign of Jehoiachin. Ezekiel was never prophesied in the temple of Jerusalem because he was taken into Babylon and the Jerusalem temple was destroyed. Ezekiel had an important ministry to the Jews that were captive with him. He was captivated at Chebar which was a canal located near the city of Babylon
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The epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is a potentially true story about a Sumerian king named Gilgamesh who ruled around 2600 BCE. One thing we learn from the story is the Sumerian value system as it relates to their leaders. Gilgamesh possessed qualities in which the Sumerians placed great value. He was a brave king‚ a wise king and a strong king‚ all traits that were important to the Sumerian people. He was also described as quite beautiful‚ which appeared to be important to the Sumerian
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“ We need no language to laugh‚” said once Janaki Sooriyarachchi a Sri Lankan author. I come from a Lebanese family. Although I lived my entire life in Beirut‚ I visited many countries in my life. And every time I travel I get this amazing desire of learning about the new culture in the country I am visiting. Back to my high school‚ most of my friends were Lebanese. We shared the same food‚ the same “ways of living” and of course the same languages. I say languages with an “s”‚ because
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Both the Patheolithic and the Neolithic societies are comparable in the areas of their uses of fire; however the Patheolithic had different religious beliefs than the Neolithic society. Fire was a shared tool used between the Patheolithic and the Neolithic. Perhaps‚ this is because fire is one of the oldest tools known to man. In addition‚ fire has many uses‚ which could also be a reason both societies shared it. The uses of fire were cooking‚ to control their own use of light and warmth‚ protection
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During King Nebuchadnezzar II’s reign in 630 B.C. to 561 B.C.‚ he ordered the construction of The Ishtar Gate‚ one of eight gateways into Babylon‚ a city in what we now call Iraq. The gate’s name comes from Ishtar‚ the goddess of love and war. Years later‚ during 1899 to 1917‚ Robert Koldewey and his team‚ excavated the Ishtar Gate. The Ishtar gate was reconstructed in the 1930s‚ and currently resides at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Ishtar Gate stood 46ft high‚ and 100ft wide; built mainly
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