English Cset: Sumerian And Hebrew Literature

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major works of Sumerian and Hebrew Literature

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_The Epic of Gilgamesh_
_Genesis_
_Psalms_

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Sumerians

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the people who established the world's first civilization around 3500 B.C. in southern Mesopotamia

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Tigris and Euphrates

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The Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin in eastern Turkey, flow in a southeast direction, converge in southeast Iraq, and empty in the Persian Gulf. In ancient times, the land between the twin rivers was called Mesopotamia.

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Mesopotamia

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-"the land between the rivers" (the Tigris and the Euphrates)
-the site of the world's first civilization
-the "cradle of civilization"

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Sumer

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the world's first civilization

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Sumerian city-state

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-the city, the surrounding mud brick wall, and the surrounding farmland.
-Sumerians organized themselves into competing city-states
-at the center was the temple and, radiating out from the center, people lived in descending order of class

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ziggurat

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-the temple at the center of a Sumerian city-state, which housed the city-state's patron god
-"mountain of god" or "hill of heaven"
-a sacred place that only priests could enter

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cuneiform

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-the world's first writing system
-means "wedge-shaped"
-written with a stylus, a wedge-shaped instrument made out of reed, on a wet clay tablet

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Gilgamesh

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-one of ancient Mesopotamia's most legendary historical figures
-a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk