NMC380Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nabopolassar, Nimrud, Ziggurat
24 May 2016
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Key words for lesson 1: tower of babylon. People of babel said, come let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens. The story of the tower of babel explains the origns of the multiplicity of languages, god was concerned that humans had too much freedom to do as they wished so he brought into existence multiple languages. Nimrud is said to have ordered the construction of the tower. The tower of babel has been associated to the ziggurat temple style dedicated to the mesopotamian god marduk by nabopolassar. 91 metres in height: d. w. griffith"s intolerance. Maria uses the story of the tower of babel to highlight the discord between the intellectuals and the workers. Freder imagines the false maria as the whore of babylon riding on the back of a manyheaded dragon: sumerian. The people responsible for the first monumental temples and palaces. Not a semitic language but rather an agglutinating language.
