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    Ancient Religions: A Comparison As civilization has expanded and improved it has gone through many different religions. Some of the most interesting and different have been the Mesopotamian religion‚ the religion of the Greeks and finally Christianity. These three religions were practiced in different areas and different time periods and therefore they will be excellent for a comparison. Religion is a key part of every society and civilization. No matter how it is organized or what type of God

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    Mesopotamians shows a very a different opinion on art. Mesopotamian art was small in scale to Egyptian art; it also had two preoccupations-man’s relationship to the gods and conflict on real/ mythological situations. The first piece of art was the Ziggurats‚ which shows that Mesopotamians believed in humans serving the gods. For real and mythological situations purposes many Mesopotamians used a cylinder seal as jewellery or as magical amulets‚ which were connected to cuneiform writing. This is significant

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    4. Record Keeping 5. Advanced Technology 2. Sumerians p 20-23‚ 31-32‚ 29-30 One of the first groups of people to form a civilization: around 3000BC. Sumerian scribbles (record keepers) invented a system of writing called cuneiform in 3500 BC. First to use potter’s wheel to shape jars‚ plates and bowls. Bronze Age started in Sumer 3000 BC Sumerians built a lot of city-states. In the center of all cities was a walled temple with a ziggurat in the middle. Belief in more than 1 god: Polytheism

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    society throughout the world. While this commonality may not be spectacular by itself‚ a detailed comparative study of the myths reveals a more striking similarity. Even in cultures as different and antagonistic as those of the Ancient Greeks and the Sumerians‚ predecessors of the Persians‚ there exists a startling parallelism in imagery and themes of the myths of the respective peoples. The epics of Heracles and Gilgamesh are an exceptionally good example of these similarities. One cannot know with

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    Text focus Questions – Unit 1 His 101 1. Describe Ziggurats (Ch. 1) 2. Identify the “black lands” of Egypt (Ch. 1) 3. How is the modern era different from other previous eras according to the author (Are We Human) 4. Identify the new human species highlighted in this article and how it became extinct? (Are We Human) 5. Why does Babylonian society limit the freedom of women in the Code of Hammurabi (Ch.2) 6. Describe and define the Axial Age. (Ch. 2) 7. How does the author challenge current theory

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    Why is Mesopotamia interesting? Mesopotamia is interesting because of it’s weather and climate. Mesopotamia’s Weather is semiarid and hot but the climate is extremely fertile perfect for growing crops. The geography of Mesopotamia has a lot of wood and water and other resources for use. Mesopotamia has a lot of climate resources and geography resources that need to be studied. Mesopotamian’s had a lot beautiful trees‚ plants‚ and flowers also Mesopotamian’s climate was interesting because of it

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    Civilization is a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop urban settlements. The earliest civilizations developed after 3000 BCE‚ when the rise of agriculture allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Agricultural populations advanced beyond village life‚ and many people no longer had to practice farming at all. Civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia‚ in what is now Iraq‚ then in Egypt. Civilizations thrived in the Indus Valley by 2500 BCE‚ in China

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    Plass 1  Milo Plass  Ms. O’Brien  World Literature  11/24/14    Gilgamesh: Origination of Storytelling  and How this Link to the Past is Still Relevant    Gilgamesh‚ over  5‚000  years  old‚  is the oldest  written work‚ so then how is it still  relevant  today?  This  lies  in  the  structure  of  the  story‚  in  its  themes  and  in  its intrinsic  values  and  quests  for  such  things  as  immortality  and  the  questions  about  death  and  mortality  that  are  explored in  this  book.  Gilgamesh

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    previous nomadic peoples during the latter Neolithic period in what became the Agricultural Revolution. Both ancient Mesopotamian and ancient Egypt religion focused on the gods as living forces of nature. Ancient Mesopotamia would build shrines and ziggurats dedicated to their city god or goddess. In comparison Egyptians would make shrines as enormous pyramids to worship there god or pharaoh. The views of both civilizations varied from their geographical location and their ability to prosper. Both civilizations

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    Religion is defined to be the belief and worship of a super human controlling power. Usually known as faith or belief. Religion is also known as worshipping person Gods or gods. Religion first stood its ground in Ancient Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ and took flight in India more than five thousand years ago. These different systems in these areas blended political cultural with spiritual elements in a type of government known as theocracy‚ but also known as the rile by divine guidance. In these times a government

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