human king of his people of Uruk and also a supernatural god. Gilgamesh was the strongest of all men‚ the bravest of the bravest‚ and a magnificent builder. One of Gilgamesh’s greatest accomplishments was that he was able to build temple towers (ziggurats) and walls that protected his Uruk people from invasions. The Epic of Gilgamesh described a catastrophic flood similar to that experienced by Noah in the Christian bible. This Noah like character was known as Utnapishtim in this literature. He
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architecture affects people and social spaces. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1943 to hold the collection of non-objective paintings of Mr. Guggenheim‚ the museum would become the most controversial in New York then as well as now. Influenced by the Ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia‚ the museum is an expanding continuous spiral around a central rotunda. The interior mimics the exterior with five diminishing ramps‚ which are illuminated by the grand‚ domed skylight overhead. Visitors enter the building
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very practical and advanced society‚ they learnt how to live in their surroundings and created a large civilization. The Sumerians were a very religious civilization. Their daily lives were based on their religion and even their laws were. The Ziggurat temple shown in source 3 was a monument built to worship the Gods. It took the Sumerians time to build this temple and if they weren’t very religious‚ they wouldn’t have used the materials and time to create it. Another example showing the Sumerians
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you worried of your protection? Not to worry in Mesopotamia we have safe homes and weapons in order to protect themselves from enemies. The culture in Mesopotamia was developed by making their own written language‚ agriculture‚ and their religion. Ziggurats were important structures built in Mesopotamia in valleys and western Iranian plateau. If your wondering‚ how am I going to communicate with my family? You can use cuneiform. Cuneiform is like pictures instead of words in Mesopotamia we used signs
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Exam 1 review sheet History 1100 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS: Prehistory- first civilized people started migrating out of Africa‚ into the Near East‚ Europe and Asia. The migration set the period known as the Stone Age. The Stone Age is where people drastically made a change. They started using tools made out of stone‚ agriculture and domesticated animals. Paleolithic Age (old stone)- 200‚000 b.c.-10‚000 b.c. Neolithic Age (new stone) – 10‚000 b.c.-4‚000 b.c. PALEOLITHIC AGE: Hunter-gatherers-
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The Harappans and Sumerians are distinctly different politically. While the Sumerians developed the world’s first monarchy‚ the Harappans may have developed the first democracy. Very little evidence has been found of a king in the Indus Valley‚ only one white priest-king idol and a silver crown; not enough to establish that the "royalty" were the rulers. Instead the empire was divided into regions with half a dozen cities functioning as capitals and was governed by a group of people. Archeologist
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that stay as rules for a long time. Primary source 4 (c. 2400 BC‚ found in Telloh) is an example of this. It is a letter sent by the high-priest Lu’enna to the king of Lagash‚ informing him of his son’s death in combat. Source 3 is an image of a Ziggurat which is a temple tower made of bricks. They are believed to be dwelling places for the gods. Only priests were permitted inside. There were defining classes within Sumerian culture‚ this is shown through the clear distinction in the laws outlined
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Mesopotamians‚ this led to the subsequent development of the modern writing system. Aside from cuneiform‚ the early settlers of Mesopotamia also invented the wheel which revolutionized transportation in the modern world. The Sumerians gave the world the ziggurats which served as the home and temple of the city-state’s patron god or goddess. The utilization of wind power by sea vessels was pretty evident in the discovery of sails. As previously stated‚ farming was the major way of living of the people then
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Mesopotamia’s civilization was shaped by their environment: the surrounding north mountains‚ eastern deserts‚ and the western sea. The Tigris and the Euphrates play a huge role in the civilization of Mesopotamia. They are located around the mountains of Turkey and Iraq. These two rivers erratically flooded giving the land fertile farm space for crops to bloom‚ but also it devastated land space. The temperatures of Mesopotamia varied‚ while the summers were very warm and super waterless and the winters
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Human civilizations all started out in much the same way. As climate changed‚ animals began to migrate and many humans decided to settle down instead of follow after the animals. These early humans settled down next to large freshwater sources. Watching the natural world around them‚ they slowly learned how to take seeds from edible plants and how to plant them again in a more accessible area. They learned how to plant crops. Overtime‚ as populations of these early humans grew‚ they began to grow
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