Mesopotamian Religions
This entry consists of the following articles:
An Overview [first Edition]
An Overview [further Considerations]
History of Study
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Ancient Science. The seeds of modern science are evident in the scholarly pursuits of ancient Mesopotamia; however, what modern people think of as "science" was not a concept that the Mesopotamians wo...
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History. Mesopotamian civilization existed for more than three millennia. The religious system founded by the Sumerians at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.E. continued for more than a thousand ye...
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Location and Lifestyle. Between circa 3300 and 331 B.C.E. many ethno-linguistic groups lived both contemporaneously and successively across the length and breadth of Mesopotamia. Despite ethnic variat...
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Mesopotamian Culture. In its broadest definition, Mesopotamia encompasses an enormous area from the shores of the Persian Gulf north along the alluvial plain dissected by the Tigris and Euphrates Rive...
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The Priest-King. Urbanism began in Mesopotamia at the end of the fourth millennium B.C.E. At Uruk, the largest city in Mesopotamia, two great temples dominated the region. It has been proposed that th...
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First Cities. Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) was the setting for humankind's earliest complex civilization. Among the many ways by which social scientists measure civilization are the presence of politica...
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Communication and Locomotion. Communication and locomotion are two basic functions common to virtually all living creatures. Communication refers to the various ways in which organisms convey informat...
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Visual Arts and Architecture. The surviving artworks of Mesopotamia relate largely to royalty, especially the male ruler, or to wealthier members of the community. These elements of Mesopotamian cultu...
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The Origins of Agriculture. The great ice sheets that covered much of the northern hemisphere for more than one hundred thousand years during the last Ice Age reached their greatest extent about twent...
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Ancient Mesopotamia is located in a land that we know today as the Fertile Crescent. In Greek the word "Mesopotamia" means "land between the rivers." According to many scholars it is considered the fi...
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A civilization is a complex culture that is made up of complex institutions, advanced cities, a record keeping system, advanced technology, and specialized workers. Mesopotamia and Egypt were the loca...
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The Amorite society of the earliest civilization may not have held their morals to the same regard as we do today, but they did have many values literally etched in stone for everyone to follow. Thei...
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Mesopotamia, the first known established civilization, had many characteristics and qualities of the modern global civilization today. The way business was conducted then, closely reflects how busine...
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Mesopotamian Religions
Ancient Mesopotamia 3300-331 B.C.E.: Science, Technology, Health
