HIS 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Utnapishtim, Enheduanna, Enlil
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4th millennium bce: city-states in southern mesopotamia. Pictographs fork and knife = fork and knife. Ideographs fork and knife = restaurant. Symbols that represent sounds or speech of some sort. From entirely oral to limited literate culture. Assembly of gods early deliberative government in city-states. Marduk and tiamat (earliest copy ca 1100 bce babylon) Ideas about the afterlife: the epic of gilgamesh. Fathers exert strong control of families to another son. Women marry into families; if marriage to one son is not successful, is given. Girls are to be virgins at marriage, can be drowned for adultery. More difficult for woman to dissolve marriage. Ziggurat, law code (monetary payments for most crimes) What problems was the code trying to solve? women. order. Monetary compensation and equivalent retaliation for some things. Woman can divorce a man in certain circumstances, some respects for. Meant to deter those who might do something to harm others and lead to.
