Ch1 Prologue

Q: How does the Epic of Gilgamesh portray the gods and their relation to humankind? gods gave him a perfect body, Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty Adad the god of storm endowed him courage the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull Made him two-thirds god one-third man He was seen as arrogant to the people of Uruk His lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warriors daughter nor the wife of the noble  But he is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute The father of the gods gave him kingship, power to bind and loose to be the darkness and light of the people  Victory in battle where most wont come back from lovely   supremacy over the people  The gods give humankind protectors with the power to make their own decision whither good or bad  they who had stood in the place of the gods like Anu and Enlil, stood now like servants to fetch baked meats in the h...

Ch2 Dami Bolarinwa Mrs. Andrews World History Earliest civilization emerged around 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE. Cradle of Middle Eastern Civilization, competing city states of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia.  Sumerians civilization like gave rise to the worlds earliest written language which was used initially by officials to record the goods received by various temples.  In northeastern Africa witnessed the mergence of Egyptian civilization famous for its pharaohs and pyramids, as well as a separate civilization known as Nubia, farther south along the Nile.  Recently discovered a third civilization that was developing along the central coast of Peru from roughly 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE at about the same time as Egypt and Sumer.  Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE Indus Valley and Oxus, 2200 BCE-1700 BCE Xia, Shang and Zhou 2200-711BCE Olmec, 1200 BCE Uruk the largest Mesopotamia's city. Had 50,000 peopled, walls more than twenty feet tall. Mohenjo Daro flourished...