with the non-royal dead in a chamber so that their spirit would have food and gifts brought to them. On the other hand the statue of Gudea was made between 2150-2100 B.C. in the Neo- Sumerian culture. Unlike Sabi and Memi that represents the non-royal‚ the statue of Gudea represented one of the heroes of Neo Sumerian culture‚ Gudea of Lagash‚ it was considered to be the intermediary between citizens and the God. Gudea of Lagash is known to have built many temples in modern day Iraq in the statue
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civilization fell under control of Sargon Akkad(Kleiner 40). The Sumerians settled in the previously inhabited valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ in modern day southern Iraq(Kliener 32). This region‚ known as the Fertile Crescent was named for the quarter moon shape of the region. The unusually fertile soil allowed the early civilization to be able to focus on more than just farming for food to survive‚ as the Sumerians developed irrigation canals for crops‚ and learned to control the
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While both Gilgamesh and Perseus are from two wildly different cultures‚ they are both have similar characteristics such as both having a polytheistic religion‚ both losing friends‚ and both are given advice from the gods. Despite Gilgamesh having a sumerian background‚ and Perseus having a grecian one‚ they both belong to polytheistic religions. Gilgamesh worships Gods such as Siduri‚ Shamash‚ and Enlil the chief god. Perseus worships Gods such as Athena‚ Poseidon‚ and Zeus‚ the king God. They both
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This region’s shape and the richness of its soil leads is also the reason it is called the Fertile Crescent. The rivers flood once a year leaving a thick bed of mud called silt. This rich soil silt attracted its first settlers to this region the Sumerians. Even though this rich soil drew people to the region there were
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become a monarchy of gods. According to the author‚ the region of Mesopotamia was first populated by the Semites‚ which came from the fringes of the great Syro-Arabian desert. Over time‚ these people mingled with the Sumerians. Initially‚ they had different languages‚ but slowly Sumerian was forgotten and Akkadian‚ the Semites native language‚ become their common language. They soon founded
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Ancient Aliens: Fact or Fiction? Have you ever wondered how many of the great marvels of the world were created? The pyramids of Egypt were a great marvel constructed by men—as far as we know it—with such precision that it’s makes you wonder. The pyramids are not a building stile only know to Egyptians. The Mayans also use pyramid style buildings in their temples. Why two different civilizations‚ separated by miles away with no connection with each other‚ built so precise constructions‚ like the
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In trying to determine where the Garden of Eden might have been located‚ we have an immediate problem‚ because while the biblical description is quite detailed‚ it is also fairly succinct. We are told only that: The Lord God planted a garden in Eden‚ in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. . . . A river flows out of Eden to water the garden‚ and from there it divides and becomes four branches. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of
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priests were very influential. The priests controlled the society because they owned most of the land‚ and a lot of. The Priests were over the schools and the libraries in their temples. In southern Mesopotamia the first schools were created by the Sumerians. The discovery of writing in the mid 4th millennium B.C. made kings and priests realize the need for education. At first‚ the writing was simple pictograms‚ but it progressively developed into cuneiform‚ wedge-shaped marks inscribed on
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of discipline. It was very common that you would see children getting whipped at school. Mostly they would get whipped because they could not speak without permission. The Sumerians were the first to develop a written language and educational system (now called school). They invented writing at about 3500BC.They Sumerians wrote on clay tablets. They called the language they had created cuneiform. Cuneiform had six hundred letters in total. Students and school were expected to learn all of them
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lower class. Though they both had similar structures‚ Egypt had more of a middle class in their structure‚ while Mesopotamia’s structure had much more of an upper class because of the city states. Proof of these divisions in social structure was the ziggurats in Mesopotamia and the pyramids in Egypt. These monumental structures were set up for their own ruler‚ with middle class growing and creating what would make up the structure‚ while the lower class constructed the actual monumental structure. Another
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