My friend, something extraordinary and impossible has happened. The other night while I was pondering over the wonders of the world, an apparition had appeared in my rooms and told me he would take me on a few trips back in time, the insight and vision that I will see will be like no other. Me being a Western Civilization professor I found the opportunity to travel through time to be very beneficial to myself and my colleagues. This journey will provide myself with enough knowledge to understand the thoughts of even the earliest civilizations. Although this trip was restricted to about half of a day, I found that I had only sufficient time to visit a handful of the places. The areas that I had chosen were pivotal to the development of mankind
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This region is important in history because they created one of the first forms of write. For the simple fact that this language was one of the first, there were many flaws like but still amazing how many of the first words came to be. Shortly after an official language was established one of the most well know set of rules came to be which are commonly referred to as Hammurabi’s rules. As you could imagine these rules are quite barbaric to newcomers who are more accustomed to more “civilized” manner of punishment. During this time we can also conclude that they’ve begun to comprehend and to favor “brains instead of brass”. The last thing that became more prevalent were pictures of supernatural beings. The idea that some being could answer every question that had gone unanswered “Many Sumerian gods represented the force of nature: An, the sky-god; Enki, the earth-god and freshwater-god” (Western Civilization, pg. …show more content…
The thing the region had that drew towards it was the simple fact that it is one of the earliest known civilizations that have all the fundamental characteristic of a civilized civilization. Their religion had the same impact to them as it did to the Egyptians. As you could imagine they built things like that would applause their gods, “The words flow untiring from their mouths and sweet, and sweet, and the halls of their father, loud-thundering Zeus, rejoice at the goddesses’ clear voice spread abroad, and the peak of snowy”( Oxford Classics Hesiod Theogony). Structures that showed the power of their gods also impacted other aspects of their life like warfare, agriculture and merely and life
This region is important in history because they created one of the first forms of write. For the simple fact that this language was one of the first, there were many flaws like but still amazing how many of the first words came to be. Shortly after an official language was established one of the most well know set of rules came to be which are commonly referred to as Hammurabi’s rules. As you could imagine these rules are quite barbaric to newcomers who are more accustomed to more “civilized” manner of punishment. During this time we can also conclude that they’ve begun to comprehend and to favor “brains instead of brass”. The last thing that became more prevalent were pictures of supernatural beings. The idea that some being could answer every question that had gone unanswered “Many Sumerian gods represented the force of nature: An, the sky-god; Enki, the earth-god and freshwater-god” (Western Civilization, pg. …show more content…
The thing the region had that drew towards it was the simple fact that it is one of the earliest known civilizations that have all the fundamental characteristic of a civilized civilization. Their religion had the same impact to them as it did to the Egyptians. As you could imagine they built things like that would applause their gods, “The words flow untiring from their mouths and sweet, and sweet, and the halls of their father, loud-thundering Zeus, rejoice at the goddesses’ clear voice spread abroad, and the peak of snowy”( Oxford Classics Hesiod Theogony). Structures that showed the power of their gods also impacted other aspects of their life like warfare, agriculture and merely and life