the ancient middle east mesopotamian literature2
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- 1. The Ancient Middle East
- 2. Mesopotamia
- Translation
- 3. Mesopotamia
- Fertile Crescent
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- Rivers
- 4. Mesopotamia
- Present day location
- 5. Civilization Built on Mud
- Sumerians
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- Engineers
- 6. Sumerian Culture
- Agricultural society
- Political boundaries
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- City-States
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- Largest Sumerian City-states
- 7. Sumerian Society
- 3 Level Class System
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- Nobles
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- Middle Class
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- Peasants
- 8. Sumerian Society
- Advanced Culture
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- Architecture
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- Science and Math
- 9. Sumerian Writing
- Cuneiform
- Records discovered
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- Financial transactions
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- Imaginative literature
- 10. Waves of Invaders
- Akkadians
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- King Sargon
- Gudea
- Babylonians 2000BC
- 11. Rise of Babylon
- Babylonians
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- Valued Sumerian Culture
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- Adapted language and literature
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- Used Sumerian as a literary language
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- 12. Rise of Babylon
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- Hammurabi
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- 6th ruler of Babylon
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- Code of Hammurabi
- Babylon
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- 1792 BC
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- Religious and cultural of Western Asia
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- 14. Great Library of Nineveh
- Hittites
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- Assyrians
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- Nineveh
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- King Assurbanipal
- 16. The Rebirth and Final Fall of Babylon
- Chaldeans
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- King Nebechadnezzar
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- Hanging Gardens
- 18.
- Hanging Gardens
- 19.
- Hanging Gardens
- 20.
- Tower of Babel
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- Babylon Falls
- 539 BC
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- Cyrus the Great of Persia
- 21. Final Fall of Babylon
- Babylon Falls 539 BC
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- Cyrus the Great of Persia
- 22. Epic of Gilgamesh
- Written 4000 years ago
- Discovered in 1839 by amateur archaeologist
- 23. Epic of Gilgamesh
- Story based upon some fact
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- Gilgamesh
- 24. Epic of Gilgamesh
- Earliest written fragments date from 2000 BC
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- Epic:
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- Long narrative that recounts the deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
- Gilgamesh: the character
- 26. Versions of the Epic
- Based upon 12 clay tablets of cuneiform script
- Discovered in modern day Iraq
- Also found in Jerusalem
- Also found in area from Mediterranean coast east to Persian Gulf
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- Reveals Mesopotamians pessimistic views of existence
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- Reveals Mesopotamians sensitivity and humanity