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| statues of commoners in ziggurats |
eyes wide open; always on god
praying
in ziggurat b/c commoners cant be physically in ziggurats |
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| Warka Vase |
priests and servant taking offerings to god at top of vase |
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| gods in mesopotamia |
anthropomorphic
process of giving human characteristics to gods; symbolize natural disasters |
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| Religion in Mesopotamia |
polytheistic
gods punish w/ natural disaster |
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| lion hunts |
kings hunted lions in arena
so wont get hurt
so wont embarrass self
outside arena, servants hunted them and offered to king
the point to offer the king lions |
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| Standard of Ur |
hierarchy of scale
read bottom to top, left to right
war |
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| role of the river |
river fast and dangerous
judges innocence
gives and takes life
religious symbol |
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| importance of property |
something stolen off property, death
made need for more severe laws
inequality; upper class has more land = inequality |
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| THE HIERARCHY OF SCALE |
when something in art is bigger it means its more important |
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| stele |
statue-like thing hammurabi's code found on
top is Shamash giving hammurabi the codes |
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| Hammurabi's Code |
set of written laws
found on stele
written in cuneiform (pictographs) |
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very earliest Mesopotamians
CHRONOLOGICAL |
sumerians
akkadians
babylonians
assyrians |
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| city-states |
state that consists of a city and its surrounding territory |
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| types of inequality |
GENDER
- work > efficiently done by men
-laborers respected and women were not laborers
-seen as not equal to laborers
CLASS
ruling elite
preists
nobles
commoners
slaves |
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| where did civilization come from? |
started in Mesopotamia, "Cradle of Civilization" by Chiefdoms |
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| products of civilization |
art, religion, laws, crime, inequality (hierarchy of class) |
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| civilization |
society in an advanced state of social development |
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