Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. To begin‚ Mesopotamia‚ the land between the rivers is one of the first civilizations to rise. According to According to Adventures in the Human Spirit by Bishop‚ Mesopotamia was inhabited the Sumerians. The Sumerians invented monumental building and writing. Sumerian writing called cuneiform is made out of pictures stamped in a clay tablet (Bishop 2014‚ 32). In addition‚
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discovered. It is written about Gilgamesh the ancient king of Uruk‚ located in modern day Warka‚ Iraq. His reign is believed to have occurred sometime between 2700 and 2500 B.C.E. It’s modern importance lies with the information it reveals about Sumerian society and culture; the most important themes in the story are the importance of love‚ the inevitability of death and the power of the gods. Gilgamesh himself is stated to have engraved the story into stone (Gilgamesh‚ 1)‚ it was then
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Source: Strayer‚ Robert W. Ways of the World: a Brief Global History. Boston‚ MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2009. Print. CHAPTER THREE: First Civilizations Cities‚ States‚ and Unequal Societies3500 b.c.e.–500 b.c.e. “Over 100 miles of wilderness‚ deep exploration into pristine lands‚ the solitude of backcountry camping‚ 4×4 trails‚ and ancient American Indian rock art and ruins. You can’t find a better way to escape civilization!” So goes an advertisement for a vacation in Utah’s Canyonlands
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stone or wood‚ called a mortise‚ that is shaped to receive a tenon‚ or projection‚ of the same dimensions. Post-and-lintel: a method of construction in which two posts support a horizontal beam‚ called a lintel. ANCIENT NEAR EAST ART Sumerian Statuettes from Tell Asmar 73 35 Figures of many different heights‚ hands are folded in gesture of prayer. Their eyes are huge‚ as if they are in
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of writing‚ metrological systems and arithmetic. The main part of the third millennium‚ now called the Early Dynastic period‚ saw the gradual development of Sumerian civilization‚ based on numerous city states. From the Early Dynastic period comes the earliest Sumerian literature‚ including the epic poetry about Gilgamesh. The Sumerians lived in a complex‚ unpredictable and frequently hostile environment. They had to contend with floods‚ droughts‚ storms‚ dust‚ heat‚ disease and death. They strove
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Horned Woman 5. Bushel with ibex motifs 6. Anthropomorphic stele 7. Jade cong 8. Stonehenge 9. The Ambum Stone 10. Tlatilco female figurine 11. Terra cotta fragment Ancient Mediterranean 12. White Temple and Ziggurat 13. Palette of King Narmer 14. Statue of votive figures‚ from the Square Temple at Eshnunna 15. Seated Scribe 16. Standard of Ur 17. Great Pyramida and Great Sphinx 18. King Menkaura and Queen 19. The Code of Hammurabi 20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall 21. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
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Around 4000 B.C.E‚ a group called the Sumerians invaded Mesopotamia and organized their civilization‚ Sumer‚ into many city-states. A city-state is a self-governing state that consists of a city and its surrounding territory. Some Sumerian city-states include Kish‚ Uruk‚ Lagash‚ and Ur. In these city-states‚ the Sumerians would develop a sense of culture and create new systems of writing‚ government‚ art‚ and religion that would impact future civilizations. The Sumerian city-states would soon be conquered
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They also both used their memory and knowledge in relation to clay and papyrus to create a system to record information. We can understand that societies used their knowledge to flourish in similar ways even with different settings. Overall the Sumerians and Egyptians did succeed in similar ways the vast differences of technology‚ writing and views on afterlife prove that environment shapes the way society pursues
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are the complete opposite of one another. For example‚ the Sumerians‚ Akkadians‚ Babylonians‚ and the Assyrians all share common religious beliefs‚ literature‚ and architectural styles. Each detail about these cultures truly describe how unique they really are. Religion has been known to cause issues between cultures because they believe so differently. However‚ three out of four of these cultures have the same type of “God.” The Sumerians‚ Akkadians‚ and Babylonians were polytheistic‚ meaning many
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duties and determining punishments. The laws in Hammurabi ’s Code were not all necessarily new ideas and were not practiced uniformly across Babylonia. Several of the laws in Hammurabi ’s code were taken from Sumerian codes dating 1400 years before Hammurabi. However‚ unlike Sumerian law‚ Hammurabi ’s Code forced severe punishments on the people of the Babylonian Empire. A number of these punishments involved death
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