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• WHAT WERE THE BELIEFS OF THE PEOPLE OF PALATIAL MESOPOTAMIA?
• ARE THERE COMMONALITIES BETWEEN THESE BELIEFS AND THE BELIEFS OF OTHER PEOPLE?
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“Truth comes down to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles – the debris of the centuries.”From A Brief History of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Peoples – Joel Dorman Steele, Ester Baker Steele
Fragmentary relief dedicated to the goddess Ninsun, mother of Gilgamesh. Steatite, Neo-Sumerian Period. Located at The Lourve https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_Ninsun_Louvre_AO2761.jpg#filehistory
Geography of Ancient Mesopotamia"Mesopotamia" is a Greek word meaning, "Land between the Rivers". The region is
a vast, dry plain through which two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, flow.
These rivers rise in mountain ranges to the north before flowing through Mesopotamia to the sea.
Today, the rivers unite before they empty into the Persian Gulf, but in ancient times the sea came much further inland, and they flowed into it as two separate streams.
Label the following places on your map:Eridu, Ur, Larsa, Nippur, Babylon, Kish, Assur, Nimrud, Phoenicia, Assyria, Akkad, Sumer, Babylonia, Tigris River, Euphrates River
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.htmlBASIC overview of the gods, goddesses, demons and monsters of Mesopotamia
Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, procreation, and of war who later, became identified with the Akkadian goddess Ishtar, and further with the Phoenician Astarte and the Greek Aphrodite, among othershttp://www.ancient.eu/Inanna/
The king was held to be the earthly representative of the patron god of the city. He was a sacred being, and to disobey him was to disobey the god. His primary duty was to ensure that the people served their god properly.