Ancient Near East: Power And Social Order In The Early Middle East

The Ancient Near East: Power and Social Order in the Early Middle East The Mesopotamia was a region located in what is now known as Iraq and part of Turkey and Syria. It is between the two major rivers called the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia means, "the land between rivers" in ancient Greek. The residents who live in the Northern area could grown wheat and raise cattle; the Southern areas are rich in soil for farming. There were a lot civilizations during this time such as the Sumer, Akkad, Babylon and Assyria. The Sumerians were a native land. Babylonia was cultural and religious and was subjected to the Akkadian Empire. Today, this region is called Assyria. However, the Akkadians were an empire that replaced Sumer as a spoken language. …show more content…
The Epic of Gilgamesh is very similar to the Holy BIble in that they both originate from the same region, and Gilgamesh and Noah were commanded by their God to build a ship. There were many differences between Ancient Hebrew culture and other cultures in the Ancient Near East. One difference is that the Hebrew Bible consists of scribes and many of the Ancient Near East were illiterate. Also the God of Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, took a human form and characteristics of a human. Yahweh had servants and lived in a temple who took care of his needs. Unlike the other ancient Near Eastern People who crafted images of their gods, the Hebrew Bible generally denigrates divine images and strongly opposed giving Yahweh any material