[ACS 200] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (16 pages long)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 200
• Professor: Jean L I

Document Summary

Means land between two rivers (tigris river, euphrates river: often called the fertile crescent. Need for food created civilization because it leads to organization and coming together to work as a community. End of fourth millennium (3500 3200 bce) we start to see population growth, and people fighting for land and technology . Built walls to protect monumental buildings and resources from enemies. For recording their business transactions, economic necessity: bulla; bullae (plural, tokens sealed inside a ball of clay as a receipt, eventually marks were made on the outside to symbolize the kind of transaction. Cuneiform symbols onto 2d objects (clay tablet: became simplified and easier to follow. Most people couldn"t read so they used art to draw symbols to represent messages. Created people: myth of enki"s creation of humankind. Humans were created to obey and work for the gods. Ziggurat house of the gods (temple or staircase to heaven)