2014 Writing Assignment #1 A ziggurat is an ancient temple‚ common in Mesopotamia‚ present day Iraq and western Iran‚ during the civilizations of Sumer‚ Babylon and Assyria. Ziggurats weren’t really precise. Ziggurats were built of much smaller bricks. Ziggurats are pyramids with successively more distanced sides‚ while the Egyptian pyramids have smooth sides going up to a point. Also‚ Ziggurats are temples while the pyramids are burial grounds for the deceased. Ziggurats were believed to be dwelling
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Sumerian lives were spent serving the gods in the form of man-made statues. There was no organized set of gods; each city-state had its own patrons‚ temples‚ and priest-kings. The Sumerians were probably the first to write down their beliefs‚ which were the inspiration for much of later Mesopotamian religion. Sumerians believed that the universe consisted of a flat disk. While the Mesopotamian ’s didn ’t have anything quit to scale with the pyramids‚ they did use and build ziggurats for religious
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EDUCATION Sumerians trained boys in art. The students were mostly sons from upper-class families – sons of priests‚ temple and palace officials‚ military officers‚ sea captains and scribes. Girls and those who can’t afford the fees were not enrolled. They used clay tablets to write and practice their cuneiform writing. Clay tablets became their books. Those who learned the art were assigned to work as scribes in the temples‚ courts‚ or as merchants. RELIGION Sumerians worshipped the
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plague. Sumerians and Hebrews both respect the Gods and offer rituals and sacrifices. What separates the religious beliefs of the Hebrews from the belief systems of Egypt or Mesopotamia was clearly their monotheism. This monotheism made possible for a new awareness of the individual. Man had the capacity to choose between good and evil. Sumerians practice polytheism; in fact‚ they think of the Gods as human. Eastern polytheism used images to represent their gods and goddesses. The Sumerians believed
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purposes and Mesopotamians invented more important things. Mesopotamia and Egypt are both similar because of their civilizations being located on a river system. The Egyptians had the Nile River and its delta that led in to the Mediterranean Sea. The Sumerians had the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that led into the Persian Gulf. Both of these rivers flooded‚ depositing silt onto the ground that would fertilize the soil. This would allow for agriculture and for huge populations to settle and grow in these
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language‚ and mapmaking. Like the Egyptians‚ the Sumerians practiced polytheism. They tended to associate their gods with the forces of nature and heavenly bodies such as the sun and moon. Sumerians believed the gods had the same habits and feelings as ordinary humans but controlled much more power. The most important of the gods were as follows: Anu‚ lord of heaven‚ Enlil‚ god of the air and storms‚ and Ea‚ god of the waters. Unlike Egyptians‚ Sumerians did not have a strong belief in the afterlife
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comes to a stop. Untapishtim and his wife are granted immortality. They created many other legends that really influenced their religion and caused them to believe that the gods the way they were. Guisepi‚ Robert A. "Sumerian‚ Ancient Sumerian (Sumer)” In total the Sumerian people where really influenced by the geography of their land this. The small area around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers cause for a common religion at the beginning of the civilization. This made it easier to believe in
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Mesopotamia and its Contributions to History Many Western historians refer Mesopotamia as the cradle of civilization. Mesopotamia was a region located in the eastern part of the Mediterranean where the rivers provided the means of survival. While other lives traveled to survive‚ Mesopotamia was one of the earliest civilizations documented to be able to settle down‚ populate‚ and make the transition from being farmers and laborers to other jobs that have been the stepping stone for societies today
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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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Kunal Pathade 11/10/13 10-6 WHAP Hebrew Essay: Continuity and Cultural Diffusion The Jews lived to preserve their culture; that essentially represented the fundamental goal of life to the Jews. The Jews observed the decadence of the Sumerians as a cause of cultural diffusion‚ and wanted to make sure that same thing would not happen to them. Eventually‚ the Jews did become vulnerable to cultural diffusion around the 4th century CE when the Greek-Macedonians from the West came; the great and
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