Events/Important/key Dates • 7‚000~ 4‚000 BCE: Spread of agriculture through most of Middle east. • 5‚000 BCE: Farming along Nile River • 4‚000 BCE: Sumerians settle in Tigris- Euphrates valley • 4‚000 BCE: Sumerians (a people who had migrated into the area from the north) provided final boost toward establishing civilization • 4‚000 BCE: cumulative effects of agriculture & technology → civilization as a new organizational form (wheel‚ bronze use‚ and writing facilitated) • 3‚500 BCE: Writing
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Babylon: the nomadic Sumerians and the strange and secretive Semitic. The Sumerians were the first people to settle in Babylon‚ after leaving their homeland of Sumeria‚ however slowly united with the Semitic. The Sumerians made the land into a great farm. They raised livestock‚ built swamps‚ and irrigated canals. These lessons taught by the Sumerians allowed themselves to assimilate in to Babylonian life. The Babylonians understood the technological advancements of the Sumerians in irrigation and agriculture
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Lyres of Ur‚ which have a rich blend of Sumerian history as well as a beautiful and artistic design. The Lyres of Ur are one of the earliest known musical stringed instruments and give a glimpse into Sumerian
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transportation‚ pots and jars secured food storage‚ and the tools made increased food production. These inventions improved earliest civilizations’ economy‚ production and increased surpluses. The most successful established civilization was provided by the Sumerians. They were the people who had migrated into the area from the
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civilization‚ for example‚ in early Mesopotamia‚ with the Sumerians whose religion was based of the environment. Similarly‚ the Greeks developed their religion to explain the everyday occurrences of nature and‚ more explicitly‚ human nature. The grecian gods were more developed‚ but the main purpose of the religion was still to explain the world around them‚ albeit‚ more technical and elaborated than the Mesopotamian gods. The Greek and Sumerian gods served a purpose of pre-scientific explanation‚ a
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Noah’s Ark vs. The Story of the Flood The Story of Noah’s Ark and The Story of the Great Flood are very alike in many ways. They both distinct characteristics of the ark‚ or person‚ the events that took place are also parallel to each other. The Sumerian version of the story is in The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ the Hebrew/Christian version of the flood story is told in the book of Genesis .In both cases God chose an honorable men that he thought would be capable of carrying out the task. A verse form the
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Man to God Relationship Sumerian‚ Judaic‚ and Greek Cultures The Sumerians emerged approximately 3000 to 2500 B.C. in a region known as the "Fertile Crescent" located between the Euphrates and Tigris River and were considered by most historians to be the world’s first civilization. During this period of time‚ a form of writing was established known as cuneiform. It was from this form of writing that we discovered a great epic known as Gilgamesh and became enlightened about the Man to God
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politics and social order can only be explained by how‚ through the adaptation of an organization‚ the government came to be. Mesopotamia‚ known as “the land between the rivers” (Tigris and Euphrates)‚ began the irrigation process. The people‚ known as Sumerians‚ used their surrounding resources and were able to build structures to assist them in transporting water over to the crops. This was obviously helpful to increase their harvest‚ and allowed
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They believed that the gods created them‚ and they were also responsible for good harvests. Now that Mesopotamia and Egypt were more technologically advanced‚ they both built religious structures. Mesopotamia built ziggurats‚ and the Egyptians built pyramids. The priests went to the Ziggurats and Pyramids to pray‚ and to make offerings to the gods. Mesopotamia and Egypt both had major achievements. Mesopotamia was more agriculturally advanced and built irrigation systems. They invented plowing and wheels
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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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