Blog 5:Absent

I was not i class Friday , so i am not sure what i am suppose to do about a blog for that class: But i did the reading and below is some notes i took P.11 - 12 , P.13 - 14 ,  P.15 - 16
  The Earliest cities: Mesopotamia(Meso)

3500 B.C.; the civilizations of Mesopotamia-Egypt begin
* many Gentries everything of the Meson, Egypt were lost
but soon choreologists dug-up there cities/ scholars  Landscape, Climate, q cities
-3500 B.C. *X meson. the region around it, had many prosperous  villages
*civilization began.
•in a small area
•southernmost portion of Meso
*Where twin rivers rain close, before entering the Gulf
Summers At land of rivers swamps ice I'll rainfall
*farmers that lived in that area relied on irrigation
what began the rise to civilization???  The local climate
Priests, kings and others
* Priesthood; top of the system
→Sumerian communities grew larger & wealthier
•Allowed them to devote more time to oils Goddesses
*The priesthood led the process of social, teaching goalie. cultural innovation  out of which civilization emerged
Men, women, civilization

*the Sumerian language had word win meaning" lady" to  distinguish women of high rank from those lower down  *Ladies were important in;  on. religion  : politics gov 

Accounting i Poetry: The Birth of writing

* Sumerians themselves developed one of the worlds first  systems of writing

Great Gods-and Goddesses

Enk in *God of the life-giving river waters

             * worshiped in Eider

Nanna *The moon God

* Temple: Near the Urnk

Numbers is Measurement

*The Sumerians devised the basic processes  of arithmetic  1 multiplication  'divisor  3 square  4 cube root

Temples. ? Statues

• Build huge temple to gain the favor of the gods  OR to display the power of Kings

Temples

•Mountain-tike-man-made)

*At Inside temples there were.

      c•Statues of both divine Y human beings