RELG 201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 201
• Professor: Eric Bellavance

Document Summary

His temple= the e-kur (mountain temple: mount ararat (small and big): located in northern part of mesopotamia, part of story of noah"s ark. The ark rested for 17 days at mount ararat: both the tigris and euphrates come from these mountains. Ex: herodotus ( grandfather of historians )- wrote about babylon, persians, Problem with him: biased towards greeks, wanted to show that they were better than other people. Before: people would go into the region trying to walk in the footsteps of jesus: these signs= cuneiform- wedge-shaped writing, used for a long time, oldest cuneiform inscriptions dated back to 3000 b. c, cuneiform is not a language. Sergeant akkad: general public knew nothing of the discoveries made until dec. 1872: famous. Sumerian religion: the uruk period (3800-2800, the invention of writing, the importance of the city, the beginning of monarchy, sumerian gods and goddesses, first texts probably written around 3200 using pictograms (not yet cuneiform, sumerians= earliest civilization.