HUMA 1710 Midterm: Lecture 2 Notes and Test Questions Detailed Lecture notes and Test questions !
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L2: getting to know the time period and region. Metal - replaces stone and bone (bronze is made from tin and copper) Pictographs ( looks like what it means) Ideogram (i. e symbol for mouth and food = eat) Mesopotamia means between rivers: irrigation requires communal effort, increased production/population. Sumerians enter area where people likely already had writing, copper, gold and silver smelting. Sumerian invention of wheel, brickmold, pickaxe, sailing ship, standards in weights and measures wine and beer, solar calendar, math(60 units from which we get our 60 seconds, minutes) Specialization of labor and development of social classes (priests, soldiers, farmers) Temples (ziggurats) ; votive (devotional) offerings (see sculpture to right) Sumerian culture influences mesopotamian culture for centuries to come. Creation stories; myths of gods and goddesses. Epic of gilgamesh: fifth king of urnk spums the affections of goddess ishtar bull of heaven is sent to kill him and others in revenge.