[HIS 101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (19 pages long)
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Western civilization notes 1/23/2017: in mesopotamia sumerian is not so much city based as river based. That is also true in egypt nile: sumerian culture is pretty fragile a lot of rising and falling happening. May flood, may be consistent, may have drought. If you live here, your entire life is bound to this river and what it does. Lot of in fighting between sumerian city states. City states: always at war with each other. You"re not going to farm in the middle of the city. Also, you can tax people out there- if they"re in your sphere, they can be taxed. Sumerian culture: very pessimistic but it"s because of how they live. Neutral death: you all go to the same place, no punishment. Sumerian underworld: worse version of where you live: literature about this, tombs. Sumerian records use cuneiform but it"s not the language.
