ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lapis Lazuli, Sumerian King List, Civi-Dt
27 Nov 2017
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The land was so rich and they dev their farming skills that not everyone needed to work every day for survival. Ancient sumer-cylinder seal of priest/king feeding sacred sheep (stamp you need to roll on a flat surface to imprint the seal) 3300 bce. Neocritical-socialism: peasants would cultivate food and give it to the king/priest and he would distribute the food throughout the civi. He could keep some in storage too incase of war, natural disaster etc. so that the people (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t star(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d die. Babylonian deed of sale, written in cuneiform, ca 1750 bce. First ever poem to find carved on a stone is the story of gilgamesh (a profound story about the greatness of human ambition and our fundamental mortality) uruk, iraq. There is a temple described in the poem. And curiously enough we have the re(cid:373)ai(cid:374)s of a te(cid:373)ple fro(cid:373) that ti(cid:373)e. the re(cid:373)ai(cid:374)s of the (cid:862)(cid:449)hite te(cid:373)ple(cid:863) o(cid:374) its ziggurat ca.
