Slide 1History Of Love Slide 2 Love is a New Concept Marrying for love, rather than practical reasons like money, favor, power, or family is a new concept. North Americans…

Slide 1Great Works of Literature 1 Slide 2 The Epic of Gilgamesh Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 An administrative tablet from Mesopotamia, ca. 3100–2900…

Slide 1MESOPOTAMIA Slide 2 Slide 3  Also known as: THE FERTILE CRESCENT Meaning: “Land Between Two Rivers”  Rivers: TIGRIS and EUPHRATES http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcast…

Slide 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh Slide 2 Unlike most epics, the hero Gilgamesh actually existed.Gilgamesh Who was Gilgamesh? Slide 3 Most of the epic is set in and around the…

Slide 1Chapter 2 Section 1 Notes Slide 2 I. Geography of the Fertile Crescent Slide 3 A. The Fertile Crescent is an upside down crescent running from the Persian Gulf north…

Slide 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh Slide 2 What is Myth? Symbolize and embody the spiritual values of a culture. Society preserves myths because it believes world views found…

Slide 1 Ch. 2 Slide 2  I. The Quest for Order Slide 3 MESOPOTAMIA Slide 4  2. Semitic Migrants a. Sumer attracted migrants (Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew & Phoenician).…

Slide 1 Ancient Writing Slide 2 Pre-requisites for Civilization  Agriculture developed in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 bce  Mining and use of copper around 6000…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The Alphabet (1100 BC) Settlement of Jericho (8000 BC) Invention of the Potter's Wheel (3400 BC) Development of Writing (3300 BC) The Reign of Hammurabi…

Slide 1 Slide 2 A symbol, character, event, object, theme, setting, etc. that recurs in the literature of many cultures A particular archetype can appear in religious stories,…