West civ notes 6

West civ notes

Ishtar goes away due to moon god farmers don't like

Priests oppose and defy most

Mesopotamian cities biggest celebration festival abolished

Going against elite with no mass support bound to fail

Zarathustra . zaroster one good god and one bad god dualism

Ahuras good god

Daiva's bad god

Arta asha judgement  persian

Equivalent is ma at

Middle king egypt when ma at originated

Ma at equivalent for mesopotamia didn't come while all was chaotic

Persia created order to employ

Ma at was soul on a scale

Arta was cross a thin or little bridge to cross to the good afterlife if you were bad bridge was weak and you were likely to fall

Book of job was stated that satan told god that your number one guy praises you cause you give him so much , take it all away and you will see that he won't and god made the bet and took all away and when job questions god he says u have no right to ask me that

Pharaoh pepi 2 ruled near the end of the old kingdom for about 90 years

Capital city of old K egypt was memphis

Art flourished during old period

Old k is sometimes referred to as the age of the pyramids

Lasted from 2181 bce to 2055 bce

Old kingdom ended in chaos

Egypt had 3 eras old middle and new kingdom

Part one was centered around control and how to keep order

Book of job is one of great classic writings in the world of literature

The story of job is a wager between satan and yahweh

Satan swears no one serves under yahweh without selfish motives

The 3 friends try to tell job over and over that he must have done something to deserve such punishment

Book of job does not present concrete solutions about why innocent people suffer

Author of job intent was to challenge the view presented by profits and historians to the effect of why suffering is evidence of wrongdoing.

Chariots became means of transport to travel controlling larger areas

Second wave of immigration 1200 to 800 dorian invaders

Disruption cause wide spread of iron originally discovered by the hittites who tried to keep it secret

Carbon was discovered by accident

Babylonian 1800 bce  hammurabi

Egypt new kingdom 1570 - 1100

Assyria 1000 - 600

Persia 550 - 330

Hyksos slang for those who invaded and for centuries ruled egypt because they felt they were better than anyone else

Moguls attacked and controlled russia almost 3 centuries

Sumerians battle 3500 create culture

Akkadians settle 2300 create order

The relationship between two similar like greek and roman

Roman provided order greece provided culture

Monumental architecture not movement here

Focus of mes this like is how supposed to be

Forest theme order

Statues organizers THESE by myths

Empire is a multi state

Myths help create and control environment.