Ziggurat

The Arise of Civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley The Fertile Crescent lies from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. The Fertile Crescent was a land named because of its good soil and its golden wheat fields. Within the Fertile Crescent was a region called Mesopotamia that the ancient Greeks had named later. This meant “between the rivers” where it was located it was between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. In this area the world’s first civilization arose…

The chosen Sound Box from Sumerian Lyre, from Ur.Ca. 2685 BCE; Mesopotamia structure was dated back to the third millennium B.C. found in the tomb of Queen Puabi from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in southern Iraq by an archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his men between 1922 and 1934 called “The Great Lyre” in PG789 (Clark, 2014). The Sound Box of Lyre had disintegrated, leaving only an impression in the soil, which Woolly called them death pits known as “Kings’ Graves” (Penn Museum, n. d.).…

Most people think of blue walls in a desert with palm trees when they hear the word Babylon. Many stories of the enigmatic city of Babylon have been created and told through the years. In biblical books it talks about different architectures like the Tower of Babel or the Hanging Garden of Babylon that where created in that place. Also there is a myth that says that a curse was thrown upon the city, and the result was its destruction. Myths, legends and tales attract the attention of many…

There were gods and goddesses, the rulers of the sky, air, and more. The most powerful god, the storm god, was believed to control storms and floods. To worship the gods and goddesses, the people of Mesopotamia built large structures, called Ziggurats, where they made offerings to please the deities or regain their favor inside the temples. Sumerians believed that various gods managed different aspects of their environment. They also believed that the gods had families who frequently lived…

priest-king saw him self as not being a god himself ,but rather having the gods on his side. The priest-king ran everything from being the head of the military to being the high priests. They also conducted religious action in their temples called ziggurats. Mesopotamia also had a combined church and state kind of like Egypt. The Greeks were people that were polytheistic as well. They believed that the gods of Olympus inter breaded with mortals on earth to create demi-gods. Another example is…

gods had families, homes, and needed to eat and drink to stay alive. After death, Polytheists believed that you went to a grim underworld where escape was impossible. To make the Polytheistic gods happy, the Mesopotamians built large temples called ziggurats and the Indus Valley viewed the buffalo and bull as sacred or a form of a god. The idea of not eating bulls and buffalo translated over to Hinduism which was greatly influenced by…

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamian Civilizations such as Babylon or Summer shared many commonalities such as the extremely similar hierarchical social class systems as well as analogous religious beliefs based upon polytheism. Even through these many resemblant traits, Egypt and The Mesopotamian Societies have diverging political systems that contain many of their own little quirks and flaws, as well as harboring many contrasting views on the goals and meaning of life. While differing views on the…

before with the reign of Hammurabi and later on with in the 6th century with Nebuchadnezzar. He conquers and destroys the temple at Jerusalem and also does the exile of the Jews, which tell us more about his great power. He then reconstructs the big ziggurat and builds other palaces and also this extraordinary gate which is 11 miles long. The city of Babylon had eight double gates and one of them was the Ishtar gate. The replica at the Museum in Berlin is one of the smaller ones. There were…

In the Chapter2, we have learned about Mesopotamia Civilization from the textbook and watched a video in the class. We watched the video from the Crash Course channel on YouTube, the video is called the Crash Course World History series, entitle “Mesopotamia” in episode 3. Which is taught by a man, John Green. The main ideas in this video is about Mesopotamia; John talked about Cities and States, Kingdom, and Empire in mostly. So, I’m going to review about what I’ve learned from this…

god that created the entire world and everyone who lives in it. Many of these gods controlled natural forces. The gods would punish the Sumerians by sending floods or famine their way. In order for them to worship their gods the Sumerians built Ziggurats that were used as their temples. When comparing the two religions there are a few differences that can be found. One being that in Ancient Egypt the religion really did have a presence in the government. A pharaoh who is thought to be a god…