SRS2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enlil, Enki

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS2112
• Professor: e

Document Summary

Sumer: first great civilization along the borders of the tigris and the euphrates around 3500 bce, sumerian language is an isolated and only deciphered through translation of bilingual texts. (not related to any linguistic grouping or families, sumerians were involved in massive agricultural projects that necessitated an increasingly large workforce leading to the formation of cities and towns, native names kienger, while the anglicized sumer is taken from the akkadian word shumeru, scholars have an idea how to decipher the language because it is related to the akkadian language which is a semetic languages, the sumerian is thought to have died down as a spoken language it may be studied and written at language schools, important early religious and politic centers formed in the cities of eridu, uruk, nippur and ur, all of the history actually affects the very of our historic evolution. (focus on their contributions).