HIST 1001 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fertile Crescent, Ninlil, Enkidu
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Indo-european migrations: originated north of black sea, horses, wheeled carts, language influences settles areas. Iranian (persian, pashto: patriarchal society, sky-gods, ancient mesopotamia, between the rivers . Tigris and euphrates: fertile crescent, from city-states to empires, succession of dominant powers, mesopotamian civilizations, writing, 4th millennium bce: city-states in southern mesopotamia. Cities: uruk, ca, 50,000 people: gilgamesh- famous king, surplus and trade. Wheel and overland trade: cuneiform= wedge-shaped writing, ca. 3300 bce- pictographs, ideographs (symbols that mean more abstract ideas: 2nd millennium bce- phonograms (abstract symbols of words, clay tablets, from entirely oral to limited literate culture. Implications- in entirely oral culture, you would have people who would have to remember what: religion happened and it leaves open a lot of chances for conflict and different interpretations. Enlil, ninlil (wind gods: assembly of gods- other gods consult other gods in most stories, creation myths. Ninhursag- goddess mixed clay w/ blood to create first human beings, made to serve the gods.
