By enabling the soul to assume temporarily any form it desired for the purpose of revisiting the earth or for its own enjoyment, this term characterized the soul of a deceased person as an effective entity in the next world.
What is the akh?
This creation myth informed Mesopotamians that life began after an epic struggle between the elder gods and the younger.
What is the Enuma Elish?
This term refers to man's oldest artistic ventures - expressions that lacked real world references to tangible things
What is non-representational ornamentation?
This beverage directly resulted from the agricultural revolution? - Liquid bread
What is beer?
Ziggurat in Mesopotamia
In ancient Egypt, this term appears in bird form, thus expressing the mobility of the soul after death
What is Ba?
These were at the center of every Mesopotamian town
What are temples?
The world's oldest known art were made on this animal's body part.
What are snail shells?
This Neolithic practice was important because it is offers good evidence for religious practice, a perpetual inspiration for the fine arts.
What are plastered skulls?
What are mastabas in Egypt?
This refers to the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian mythology
What is duat?
These people were assigned the task of interpreting and understanding the messages from the gods in earthly contexts.
Who were Diviners?
What are caves?
This invention allowed for storage in Neolithic cities
What is pottery?
Stonehenge in England
This was the Egyptian god of the sun
Who was Ra?
He was was consulted to see if perhaps one had offended the spirits of the dead in some way.
Who is the necromancer?
This term refers to the process used to make paleolithic tools
What is grinding?
Dating to approximately 3000 B.C.E. and set on Salisbury Plain in England, it is a structure larger and more complex than anything built before it in Europe.
What is Stonehenge?
Sarcophagus in Egypt
He was the ruler of the dead in ancient Egypt
Who was Osiris?
This story showed the futility of man's quest for immortality
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
this refers to how Paleolithic set up their habitations
What is nomadic?
This technique allowed Neolithic people to communicate very limiting information
What is proto-writing?
The Sphinx in Egypt