The Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt Ancient systems of writing in the Middle East arose when people needed a method for remembering important information. In both Ancient Iraq and Ancient Egypt each of the stages of writing‚ from pictograms to ideograms to phonetograms‚ evolved as a response to the need to express more complex ideas. Satisfaction of this need gave us the two most famous forms of ancient writing‚ cuneiform from ancient Iraq‚ and hieroglyphics from
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multiply doing different jobs a project getting completed more efficiently‚ opposed to multitude of people on one job. A good example of this would be Sumer in Mesopotamia. Not only did the Sumerians‚ have a complete understanding of trading they had some-what of a social structure by 2500 B.C. By 5000 B.C. the Sumerians were in the process of developing a writing system witch had evolved into pictograms and kept records by means of scribes. Sumer reached its height in civilization in its third millennium
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in fact‚ the Indus‚ however when they did further research‚ it became a reality. The Sumerian tablets had written records of Mesopotamia trading with Meluhha and were first time it was mentioned by Sargon the Great. To further signify that Meluhha was‚ in fact‚ a city in the Indus Valley Civilization‚ Indian archeologist‚ Ratnagar‚ Shereen identified all the products from Meluhha that were written on the Sumerian clay models‚ translated by Kramer‚ Samuel Noah. Products included timber‚ gold‚ ivory
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Chariots Of The Gods? By Erich Von Daniken Was God An Astronaut? -----------------------------Copyright - 1968 (German) / Tranlslation Copyright - 1969 First Published (In German) under the title - "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" Scan Version : v 1.0 Format : Text with covers and plate pictures. Date Scanned: Jan/21/2002 Posted to (Newsgroup): alt.binaries.e-book Scan/Edit Note: Where a number is in the brackets it refers to "to the power of" or subscript. -Salmun -----------------------------Contents:
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Egyptians invented mathematics‚ which was greatly required for agriculture‚ making roads. They also invented geometry‚ as they needed to dig up canals and even astrology‚ medication. The Sumerians contributed to the development of metalworking‚ wheeled carts‚ and potter’s wheels and Assyrians even added some practical knowledge in Chemistry‚ in the making of glass‚ and in the preparation of ores. In Greek Civilization‚ which is one of the
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What struck me as most interesting in this story was Lilth‚ and how her mythology in the modern monotheistic religions paralleled the Sumerian religion. Although initially Lilth doesn’t seem to be a thoroughly significant figure in the stories of Inanna‚ what she represented in the Huppulu tree story and the similarities between her and Dumuzi stand out. The very first thing I noticed was Lilth’s appearance. In the preceptorial‚ we touched on this briefly and it was suggested that she represented
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Andres Mederos AP World History The Differences between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia There are many differences between the two civilizations like Government‚ Burials ‚ Technology‚ and language. Now these can be the same but there not because these civilizations had there own ways on how to control what they believed and how they would sustain themselves. Now the Burial techniques that the Egyptians used was very clever and like professionally done because they thought in the after life
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the sun. Pg 16 4. Epic of Gilgamesh- records the exploits of a legendary king of Uruk. Pg 17 5. Erbil- can be dated back to at least 6000 BC and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. 6. Eridu- is an ancient Sumerian city in what is now Tell Abu Shahrain‚ Dhi Qar Governorate‚ Iraq. Eridu was long considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia‚ and is still today argued to be the oldest city in the world. Pg 10 7. Hebrew Diaspora- when Jews became scattered
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000 square miles‚ or 6400000 acres‚ which is a lot of land. Sumerian cities are dotted all over this plain of land‚ these cities are known as city states. These city states are made up of a city and the surrounding area is villages and the farmland that it controls. The earliest Sumerian cities were ruled by priests‚ and the largest structures built were temples. The Sumerians religion is Polytheism‚ the belief in many gods. The Sumerians believed that their Gods controlled
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B and everything else added up to 3‚5000 to 4‚000 calories. They both had different ways of seeing how beer should actually be used sometimes but they both used it in the same way most of the time‚ for pleasure and to satisfy. 4. Gilgamesh was a Sumerian kind who ruled
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