Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 4. Which ancient culture left no literary texts? A) Phoenicians B) Sumerians C) Hebrews D) Babylonians E) Assyrians Points Earned: 0.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 5. From which of the following peoples did the Hebrews not struggle for freedom‚ either in Palestine or while in exile from it? A) Babylonians B) Sumerians C) Egyptians D) Greeks E) Romans Correct Answer(s): B 6. Who was the Persian conqueror who in 539 B.C
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Mesopotamia (Cuneiform of Sumerians) around 3000 BCE. Despite the views that the first writing system was invented in Mesopotamia there are other researches that have refuted this claim as it is believed that writing systems were also developed independently in other parts of the world (Egypt and Indus) around the same time as in Sumerian. There are four writing systems that are considered to have developed around the time of 3000 BCE up to 600 BCE: Cuneiform of Sumerian‚ Egyptian hieroglyphs‚ Chinese
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something like the city-states of Mesopotamia. The original people living in Mesopotamia were called the Sumerians. Along with the Sumerians‚ there were other people living in Mesopotamia and they were called the Semites. Overtime the Semites would have a huge impact on the Sumerians’ culture‚ government and religious practices‚ but in the beginning they lived peacefully along with the Sumerians and adopted their culture.
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stories contain strikingly similar plots about a god who is angry and wipes out everyone in a flood‚ except a few lucky survivors who escape via some sort of boat. These two other stories are the Sumerian and Greek flood stories‚ and the similarities these stories share are quite shocking. The Sumerian flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ written on stone tablets in cuneiform‚ is one of the oldest writings on earth. The gods in this story get angry because “The uproar of mankind is intolerable
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ca. 1792 – 1750 BC) created a short lived empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire. Babylonia adopted the written Semitic Akkadian language for official use‚ and retained the Sumerian language for religious use‚ which by that time was no longer a spoken language. The Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in later Babylonian culture‚ and the region would remain an important cultural center‚ even under outside rule‚ throughout the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.
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ones made of imperishable materials are likely to have been preserved . For these reasons‚ the sample of our study is incomplete and sometimes‚ damaged. We cannot expect to have information about all the people who received an epitaph or dedicated a votive monument for a deity during the Roman Era. However‚ the reason behind the preservation (or not) of monuments is mainly accidental and in certain circumstances‚ we could assume that it is a random selection of the original sample and therefore‚
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SUPERSTITIONS IN VIETNAM Vietnam has many customs involving superstitious activities. Some of them are: burning votive paper‚ meeting fortune tellers to ask for a prediction of future‚ especially some negative superstitions prevent some young couples from marriage because of their contrasting ages. Vietnamese people think that it is a lucky thing to pick some buds from a pagoda‚ receive lucky money on Tet holidays. Some people also think that if they eat tofu and peas before an exam‚ they would
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Euphrates and created the very first flourishing civilization. The middle east was broken into two areas. The northern area was called Mesopotamia and the southern area was called Babylon. In these areas a new civilization arose called the Sumerian civilization‚ or Sumerians. These people were short yet stocky and developed their own city-states‚ or villages with their own government and government officials. Of course these city-states had a king‚ along with his board of elders‚ who boosted this process
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In this paper I will try to explain the puzzle of whether individuals are products of society or society is a product of individuals. I believe that in general‚ and in the beginning‚ the answer to this question‚ is that society is a human product. I will start by presenting early man‚ the hunter and gatherer as an early form of society‚ but lacking critical qualities of a society. Then I will continue to support my theory by analyzing the beginning of known society some three and one half thousands
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medium such as bullae and finally clay tablet that can harbor more complicated information. Also Cuneiform adapted to more progressive structures that later turns into syllabic and eventually alphabetic writing system. The cuneiform was first used by Sumerians‚ and then it wide spread throughout the region and was later adopted by numerous ethnic groups headed by Babylonians and Assyrians. The adaptation process created Akkadian cuneiform which is basically distinct from its predecessor. From 10th to
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