AR390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fertile Crescent, Semitic Languages, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
28 Nov 2013
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First writing, music written down and civ. City-states that arises between the euphrates and the tiberius. Script- cuneiform- sumerians (isolate)- language not related to anything, it is by itself. Tends to dominate- their language, last record of sumerian writing is 100 ad. 2800 bce- akkad they gain power through controlling power- language- Lasts until about 1400 to 1200 bce- hurrian (people and language)- same word, they wrote hurrian and sumerian- they have the ability to adopt. Black vs. white magic- that concept of separating and splitting magic is not invented yet. Evil vs. good- these categories don"t exist yet. Gods- a moral in character- pre existing reality, they are a product of this reality like humans, therefore neither can change the larger reality. In order to direct how we should live, we need to have a say in it. This creation did not make moral order. Magic can help us understand this period and their ideas of transcendence.
