Sumerian creation myth

this idea. The Babylonian exile contributed to the creation of these two different stories. The Babylonian king became very strong and forcefully removed the Jewish people from Israel. He did this to make the people of Israel abandon their Jewish Culture. Therefore, Jewish people began to experience more babylonian ideas. Myth, language, history, religion, and art all came together. Noah’s Arc and Gilgamesh became very similar. Gilgamesh is a Sumerian text; however it…

found by an archeologist Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. This valuable historical relic is now well-preserved in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The lyre was created between c. 2600 BCE and c. 2500 BCE during the Sumerian Period. It was discovered in a royal tomb from an ancient Mesopotamian city named Ur and its contemporary location is Muqaiyir, Iraq. The lyre looks like an ancient harp and was used to perform music. Before excavated by Woolly, it was…

Intro: Food has shaped the world into what it is in the modern day, and food played a major role in the history of mankind. In An Edible History of Humanity, by Tom Standage, Standage focuses on how food has had an impact of food from when hunter-gatherers were around, to the present day. Standage’s goal is to teach the reader the overall importance of food in our world, more than just what it is to most people now, something that we eat to fuel ourselves, which usually tastes good. He wants…

Religion was once a way to help early humans explain the natural world around. In a time where nothing had any true explanations yet, answers needed to be filled, and the creation of God and Gods became that answer. Religion, however, soon became more than that. It became a way of life for most humans and gave them a moral compass to follow. It allowed people to come together as a community and learn to respect and appreciate…

Heaven & Hell, Valhalla & Helheim, and Elysium & Tartarus, are a few examples of where people, over time have, through the idea of religion, have imagined where the human soul goes after a person’s death. But what is religion? How does one define the idea of religion? In many cases people can mistake religion for a cult or perhaps just a well written story. It’s important for a person to be able to make the distinction between an idea of faith and the fantasies of a man or else that person may…

together. 2) With the invention of writing, there was no need of memory, speech, and rely on person to person interaction to transmit information. The need of simple way of record keeping and organizing of agricultural and business information of the Sumerians to the pictograms, and phonograms. Writing was soon spread across along with Phoenicians…

David Graeber is an American anthropologist, anarchist and an activist. He is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. To begin with, Graeber uses definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary to define debt. Firstly, debt is defined as a sum of money owed. Secondly, it is the state owing money. Thirdly, it is a feeling of gratitude for a favor or service. Graeber then introduces the book with the following American Proverb: “If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars…