HIST 1210 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Archaic Greece, Delian League, Semitic Languages
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Identify at least three elements historians consider essential to civilization and explain why. Centralized government: a person or group of people who make and enforce laws in a society. Organized religion: a belief in some sort of higher being. Job specialization & social classes: everyone has a different job that helps others & Arts, architecture, & public works: a creative way a society expresses its values. Writing: a method of using symbols to keep records. Its called the dark age because of the fall of the mycenaean civilization around 1200. Bce, and the greek archaic period around c. 800 bce. The linear b script also fell in this period. Why do the gods create enkidu and why does gilgamesh journey to find. The gods sent enkidu to challenge gilgamesh and stop him from oppressing the people of uruk. He journeys to utnapishtim to find the secret of eternal life.
