ACS 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Crisis Of The Third Century, Ammit, Jesus Movement

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

Document Summary

Cuneiform form of writing: denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of mesopotamia, persia, and ugarit, surviving mainly impressed. Cosmogony a creation myth: a myth about why the world came to be. Enkidu the counterpart of gilgamesh, created to restrain him. He was first created a wild and beastly like creature, as he roamed outside the walls of the kingdom seeming to be untamed or uncivilized . Gilgamesh - he was two parts god, one part human/ man. He is the king of the city of. After the loss of his friend enkidu, he gets shaken up and decides to go on a quest to find. Aten was the disk like god of the sun. During the religious revolution, akhenaten used/chose aten to be the main god of his revolution. This was important as aten is the only egyptian god without an animal counter-part. Akhenaten was a pharaoh of egypt of the 18th dynasty.