HIST 1001 Chapter : 90313
Document Summary
Sumerians realized they could use their text for numerous things (anything that could be put into language could be written down: with the invention of writing we have access to minds of ancient people, latin civitas= city. The mesopotamian flood story: what does it tell us about their world view: tells about how gilgamesh runs into an old man on his adventure about life named. He"s so old gilgamesh thinks he"s solved the problem of how to live forever: notable differences of mesopotamia & noah"s ark, mesopotamia"s story, the way that story was told, reflects the beliefs and attitudes of. Important clues to cultural differences in religious societies: mesopotamian civilizations, sumer (cities ca. 1400-1200: different: spoke an entirely different language their cultural origins were far to the north. Had language in the indo-european language group: shared: adopted sumerian cultural attributes, sumeria as the classic civilization , because later civilizations mocked and repeated sumerian culture.
