CLAA05H3 Midterm: CLAA05 MIDTERM REVIEW (lecture 1-4)
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A traditional or legendary story concerning some being/hero/event. Explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. 3100-2686bc god horus rises to power, king narmer unites egypt, hieroglyphic writing. 2686-2181bc sun god re= principal state god, pyramid texts, tomb autobiographies. 2055-1650bc first recorded fictional stories, coffin texts, warrior god montu becomes important. 1550-1069bc golden age, funerary text tomb walls, papyrus scrolls, the book of the dead. ~5000 to 500bc: between tigris and euphrates river in iraq. Sag-gi-ga black headed ones prominent groups sumerians, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians regions languages written in script called cuneiform: clay tablets, main language= sumerian and akkadian. 4000-3100 and 3100-2900bc invention of writing: archaic texts from uruk. Summary: in egypt there was a girl named rhodopis who was kidnapped by pirated, brought to. Her owner was a kind old man, who spent his time sleeping under the tree, and so he did not know that the other servant girls teased rhodopis for her appearance.
