Building Civilization
This is the center of a civilization.
What is religion?
A building that would be found at the center of every city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
The literal meaning/translation of Mesopotamia.
What is "land between two rivers."
Literally means "wedge-shaped"
What is cuneiform.
This is the definition of culture.
What is "religion externalized"?
This is the "glue" of all ANE civilizations.
What is story/epic?
This is the Mesopotamian epic of creation.
What is the Enuma Elish?
This was the pre-cuneiform trading receipt system.
What is a boulle?
This is how religion and culture continue from one generation to the next.
What is language?
What is a fortified wall?
He is the chief god of the Mesopotamians, according to the Enuma Elish.
This was the title of the priest-kings of Mesopotamia.
What is the ensi-lugal?
______ was the name of the first civilization (Gen. 4).
What is Enoch?
These two topographical/geographical features were the most important aspects for developing a civilization in a particular place.
What is access to water and high elevation.
These were the two most important inventions for the agrarian Mesopotamian society.
What is the irrigation canal and the wheel?
He was the first to unite an entire section of city-states into an organized empire.
Who is Lugalzagesi?
Language is a _____ of ______ _______ by means of which human communicate.
What is a system of invented signs.
ANE religion causes most early ANE civilization to be centered on this way of human-to-human interaction.
What is violence/conflict.
The gods of the Enuma Elish and other ANE epics of creation can be described by this human term.
What is anthropropmorphic?
This man establishes the first North-to-South (all-encompassing) empire of the Mesopotamians.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?