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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/anu.html ANU

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/e/enlil.html Enlil

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/mesopotamian-mythology.php?_gods-list God list

http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/middle_east/mesopotamian/articles.html

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.html http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/godsreligion/a/mesopotgods.htm http://www.librarybcds.com/5thGrade/MesopotamianGodsandGoddesses.html http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/mesopotamian-mythology.php http://history-world.org/sumerian_gods_and_goddesses.htm http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/dlottmesopotamia2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_mythology

keep up the good work! Lots of notes on laptop at home; good set of websites; remember lots of stuff, so I can start on outline today; Sam B is doing the same thing; Remember to give O cedit for notes uploaded today

Not really sure what thesis will be, but like hearing about the legends and gods, and how they think things got started; all internet resources, not book; A for process. Lots of good stuff so far

10/2 10/2 great notes & outline A for grade.. looking for a thesis. A thesis explains a cause, or a connection, or an importance. It’s the big idea: //So I ask you: what’s the big idea? // Without the gods and goddesses and legends, it wouldn’t be the same, because most of what they did was based on the gods. //Omari, what you just said can take you to a thesis. Run with it.

// "The production and preservation of written documents were the responsibility of scribes who were associated with the temples and the palace, laws were perceived as given by the gods . Accounts of the victories of the kings often were associated with the favour of the gods and written in praise of the gods. The gods were also involved in the establishment and enforcement of treaties between political powers of the day

it was felt that the will of the gods could be known through the signs that the gods revealed, care was taken to collect ominous signs and the events which they preached. If the signs were carefully observed, negative future events could be prevented by the performance of appropriate apotropaic rituals

The largest collection of omens, containing more than 100 tablets, is entitled “If a City is Situated on a Hill. . . ” A few explicitly ritual texts have survived. Significant in the Babylonian new year festival was the reading of the Creation Epic, entitled //[|Enuma Elish]//. These tablets begin with a genealogy of the gods followed by an account of the creation of heaven and earth from the body of Tiamat who had been slain by Marduk.

Another famous text is the [|Gilgamesh] Epic. The 12 tablets of this epic begin and end at the walls of Uruk, the city which Gilgamesh founded.
 * The Sumerians thought that a great domed roof contained the sky, the stars, the moon, and the sun which lighted the cities beneath it **** ; they also believed that below the earth swirled the dim netherworld, a fearsome abode of demons and the kingdom of the dead. **
 * Nammu, Goddess of the Primeval Sea, "the mother who gave birth to heaven and earth." **
 * An, God of the Heavens, leading Sumerian deity from Fourth Millennium B.C. until the city of Erech began to lose its power (c. 2500 B.C.). **
 * Ki, Goddess of the Earth **
 * Enlil, God of Air and Storms, son of An and Ki: Enlil is credited with separating the heavens from earth and, therefore, described as the "father of the gods," "king of the universe," "king of all lands." For about a thousand years after 2500 B.C., Enlil is supreme ruler of Sumerian pantheon of gods and guardian of the city of Nippur; he is credited with raising up the "seed of the land" and with bringing "whatever is needful" into existence. Enlil is said to have been responsible for the me, a set of universal laws governing all existence. **
 * Utu, sun god who lights the world with rays issuing from his shoulders: Utu was also the god of justice and carved out justice with the many-toothed saw he carried with him. **
 * Ninhursag, Mother Earth, the source of all life: from Ninhursag came the birth of the planets; she is usually seen wearing a leafy crown and holding a branch to indicate fertility. **
 * Enki, Lord of Water and Wisdom: Enki emits streams from his shoulders; he is the god who gave rulers their intelligence and who provided craftsmen with their skills. **
 * Inanna, Goddess of Love and War: Inanna stands beside her insignia, gateposts hung with streamers, and is present whenever life is conceived through love or ended in battle. **
 * Ereshkigal, Goddess of Darkness, Gloom, and Death, sister of Inanna **

In Mesopotamia, each town and city was believed to be protected by its own, unique deity or god. The temple, as the center of worship, was also the center of every city. The towers, called ziggurats, were very large, pyramid-shaped structures on top of which the temple was built. The ziggurats were built of mud bricks with 3 to 7 terraced levels. The Mesopotamians believed that these pyramid temples connected heaven and earth. In fact, the ziggurat at Babylon was known as Etemenankia or "House of the Platform between Heaven & Earth". . Later, as a priesthood developed, the temple became the center of both religion and learning for the entire community. The people of Mesopotamia had very many gods, called dingir in Sumerian. Their gods and goddesses looked and acted just like people. They had feasts, marriages, children, and wars Every single city had its own patron god or goddess who owned everything and everyone in the city. Everyone was expected to sing hymns, say prayers, make sacrifices and bring offerings to the local temple (ziggurat) for the gods. There were four all-powerful gods that created and controlled the universe. An was the god of heaven, Enlil was the air-god, Enki was the water-god, and Ninhursag was the mother earth-goddess. Each of these gods created lesser gods who were also important in Mesopotamia. Utu, the sun-god, lit the world with rays shooting from his shoulders. He moved across the sky in a chariot. Nanna was the moon-god who used a boat to travel by night. There were hundreds of gods who were responsible for everything in the world, from rivers and trees to making bread and pottery

Priests looked after the gods with special [|rituals]. There were also smaller temples throughout the city where ordinary people could make [|offerings]. Demons were created by the gods with human bodies and animal or bird heads. They could be either evil or good. Monsters were a mixture of animals and birds Enlil In ancient Sumero-Babylonian myth, Enlil ("lord wind") is the god of air, wind and storms. Enlil is the foremost god of the Mesopotamian pantheon, and is sometimes referred to as Kur-Gal ("great mountain"). In the Sumerian cosmology he was born of the union of [|An] heaven and [|Ki] earth. These he separated, and he carried off the earth as his portion. In later times he supplanted [|Anu] as chief god. His consort is [|Ninlil] with whom he has five children: [|Nanna], Nerigal, [|Ningirsu], [|Ninurta], and Nisaba. Enlil holds possession of the Tablets of Destiny which gives him power over the entire cosmos and the affairs of man. He is sometimes friendly towards mankind, but can also be a stern and even cruel god who punishes man and sends forth disasters, such as the great Flood which wiped out humanity with the exception of Atrahasis. Enlil is portrayed wearing a crown with horns, symbol of his power. His most prestigious temple was in the city Nippur, and he was the patron of that city. His equivalent is the Akkadian god [|Ellil]. "

3 Cool things about ancient Greece.

Mythology Olympics Architexture

3 Things I want to learn about. Mythology Olympics Architexture

http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Olympics/ http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Mythology/ http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Art/

This looks pretty good. How long ;do you think it will take to get from lists to narrative?

MOVIE PITCH:

A documentry comedy about how schindler and solon were alike.

Solon & Schindler

SOLON

[|http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/solon.html]

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons1_n2/solon.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/553609/Solon

http://www.livius.org/gi-gr/greeks/politicians.html

SCHINDLER

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schindler.html

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/schindler/

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-schindler.htm

http://www.oskarschindler.net/

Omari Spears Sam Barbell History Orange

__ Solon and Schindler: Outline __
 * Similarities: **

They both helped people when they needed help They helped the people that were ignored in their time of need. The two were both higher in class but felt that they should help the lower classed people They improved the community. They did their things at a risk.

At first he was greedy but he had an epiphany when he saw Jews being kicked out of a ghetto and shipped off to certain death. Schindler had a higher place in society and felt that the lower people weren’t being treated right. He did what he did for the people and had to do things in secret. He showed the others in his higher class what he was doing in a deceiving way. He hired as many Jews as possible and hired them to work at his factory and they made things that were needed for war. The Nazi’s liked the fact that he was making things for war so he was allowed to do some things in the open but the rest was in secret. He had his factory workers to make faulty ammunition for the guns. He later saved the Jew’s by having them in his factory.
 * Schindler: **

●Solon was an aristocrat but cared about the people who were lower than him unlike the other aristocrats. ●He gave everyone different rights in their classes so they each had their own advantage. ●Even the poorest people had responsibilities in society. ●Not radical, slow and steady. ●He pitched it to the aristocrats in a way that they’d like. ●He talked them into voluntarily giving up __some__ of their power. ●He made gold coins to get trade going around and for the economy to prosper ●He eliminated debt slavery because with debt slavery the person would have to be a slave forever. ●He made the changes so the people could have rights and so they wouldn’t riot about the aristocrats. ●He made he things for the disadvantaged people and was an aristocrat himself ●Things were still out of balance when he finished ●He didn’t push any laws on anyone; he was just clever and used persuasion
 * Solon: **

We’d give the brief explanation of each person like the ones above We’d then show the similarities and how Schindler would act in ancient Greece and how solon would act during the holocaust We’d talk about how the word would be if the two hadn’t done what they had
 * Part One: **
 * Part Two: **
 * Part Three: **

We’ll restate everything that we’ve said overall but shortened. =**TIME LINE**=
 * Conclusion**


 * Wars were raging in ancient Greece 431 – 404 BC ||
 * The Phoenicians, a Semitic people who came to rival the Greeks in the western Mediterranean, originally founded Carthage. Between 264 BC and 146 BC ||
 * **The Second Punic War was fought between 221 and 202 BC** ||
 * Hannibal returned to North Africa where the Romans defeated him at Zama in 202 BC ||
 * **Punic War 146 BC** ||
 * In 107 BC, the requirement that Roman soldiers be landowners was dropped entirely ||
 * In 59 BC, Caesar was elected consul. ||
 * Between 58 and 50 BC, he defeated all the Celts in Gaul and pushed the Germanic tribes back beyond the Rhine. ||
 * In 55 BC he invaded Britain, and in 54 BC the tribes there agreed to pay tribute to Rome. ||
 * **He crossed the Rubicon with his army in 49 BC, uttering the famous words, “the die is cast.”** ||
 * **On March 15 (the infamous “Ides of March”), 44 BC, a gang of former colleagues, including his good friend Brutus, assassinated Caesar.** ||
 * After the death of Caesar, the Roman Empire was split in two. Gaius Octavius, a nephew whom Caesar had adopted as his heir in 45 BC, ruled the western half. ||
 * Naval forces of the two met at the decisive battle of Actium in 31 BC ||
 * In the north, Roman legions attempted to move beyond the Rhine to the Elbe River, but they suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the German tribes in 9 AD and moved back to the Rhine ||
 * **In 212 AD, Roman citizenship was granted to all free subjects in the empire.** ||
 * 100 AD and 200 AD the Age of the Antonines, ||
 * The end of Rome as a great imperial city began in 331 AD when the emperor Constantine built the city of Constantinople at the site of the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium ||
 * His new capital, Constantinople, would remain the seat of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire until the coming of the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD. ||
 * However, in 410 AD, Stilicho fell victim to a typical plot amongst the leaders of the Rome and was beheaded ||
 * The collapse was completed in the last half of the 5th Century AD. ||
 * An army of Visigoths finally put an end to the threat from the Huns by defeating Attila and his hordes at the battle of Troyes in 451 AD ||
 * **The last emperor of the Roman Empire was deposed by the Germanic warlord Odoacer in 476 AD** ||
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**
 * Naval forces of the two met at the decisive battle of Actium in 31 BC ||
 * In the north, Roman legions attempted to move beyond the Rhine to the Elbe River, but they suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the German tribes in 9 AD and moved back to the Rhine ||
 * **In 212 AD, Roman citizenship was granted to all free subjects in the empire.** ||
 * 100 AD and 200 AD the Age of the Antonines, ||
 * The end of Rome as a great imperial city began in 331 AD when the emperor Constantine built the city of Constantinople at the site of the Ancient Greek city of Byzantium ||
 * His new capital, Constantinople, would remain the seat of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire until the coming of the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD. ||
 * However, in 410 AD, Stilicho fell victim to a typical plot amongst the leaders of the Rome and was beheaded ||
 * The collapse was completed in the last half of the 5th Century AD. ||
 * An army of Visigoths finally put an end to the threat from the Huns by defeating Attila and his hordes at the battle of Troyes in 451 AD ||
 * **The last emperor of the Roman Empire was deposed by the Germanic warlord Odoacer in 476 AD** ||
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**
 * His new capital, Constantinople, would remain the seat of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire until the coming of the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD. ||
 * However, in 410 AD, Stilicho fell victim to a typical plot amongst the leaders of the Rome and was beheaded ||
 * The collapse was completed in the last half of the 5th Century AD. ||
 * An army of Visigoths finally put an end to the threat from the Huns by defeating Attila and his hordes at the battle of Troyes in 451 AD ||
 * **The last emperor of the Roman Empire was deposed by the Germanic warlord Odoacer in 476 AD** ||
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**
 * An army of Visigoths finally put an end to the threat from the Huns by defeating Attila and his hordes at the battle of Troyes in 451 AD ||
 * **The last emperor of the Roman Empire was deposed by the Germanic warlord Odoacer in 476 AD** ||
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**
 * **455 AD: Visgoths returned home to Italy to take over Rome**

The punic war was the first big thing to happen in Rome

The war took different phases

The war was between rome and sicily

Argument: The punic war was pointless and could of easily and peacfully been resolved ||

__ How the Punic War could’ve been prevented(draft 1) __ The Punic war could have easily been prevented if Rome and Carthage could make a compromise and divide the recourses. With the compromise at the end of the war it shows that the two sides could have divided Sicily and it’s recourses from the beginning. With Rome taking part of Sicily and Carthage taking the other the two could have easily traded for things that they needed from the other side. With the first war not happening the others wouldn’t have to follow, which would result in less people on each side dead. Rome could’ve looked at their economy and society to see which resources they needed and which they could do without. From there the leaders of Rome and Sicily could sit for a while and make an agreement about which parts of Sicily each side would get. From there an organized trading system would be made between the two places and they’d become allies. With Rome and Carthage as allies the two places could protect Sicily to extend the amount of time they could have the different resources without other nations stealing Sicily. Having the two places sharing Sicily each would grow faster and develop and could possibly survive longer in history than when each nation was wiped out. Eventually the two could have possibly combined since they shared territory which would only make them bigger and stronger. In this situation every benefits. Rome and Carthage could have both grown incredibly as nations and kept peace if the first Punic war had never happened. With the wars the nations missed out on many opportunities for positive change and were weakened as nations.

__ How the Punic War could have been prevented __ The Punic war could have easily been prevented if Rome and Carthage could make a compromise and divide the recourses. With the compromise at the end of the first war it shows that the two sides could have divided Sicily and it’s recourses from the beginning. With Rome taking part of Sicily and Carthage taking the other the two could have easily traded for things that they needed from the other side The first Punic war was a fight between Carthage and Rome. The war stretched from 264 to 241 BC and many soldiers on each side were killed. Carthage and Rome were fighting over Sicily which was a great place for different resources. Sicily was surrounded by water which would be great for trade. The battle had to be mostly naval which caused Rome to invent a pirate like fighting style. The Roman ships would get close to the Carthage naval ships and a bridge was made in between the two. The bridge let Roman soldiers run onto the Carthage ships and created a land battle on sea. Rome developed this and other fighting techniques during the war without it they would be a better nation and create many more useful things. With the first war not happening the others would not have to follow, which would result in less people on each side dead. Either way neither Rome nor Carthage could control the opposite side to prevent further raids and attacks. Rome could have looked at their economy and society to see which resources were needed and which they could do without. This way only the essential things would be taken from Sicily. Without extra resources other places would not want to attack Rome as much to take what they did not need. From there the leaders of Rome and Carthage could sit for a while and make an agreement about which parts of Sicily each side would get. From there an organized trading system would be made between the two places and they would become allies. With Rome and Carthage as allies the two places could protect Sicily to extend the amount of time they could have the different resources without other nations stealing Sicily. With more recourses for each side they could build more things and have chances for different types of expansion. Having the two places sharing Sicily each would grow faster and develop and could possibly survive longer in history than when each nation was wiped out. Eventually the two could have possibly combined since they shared territory which would only make them bigger and stronger. In this situation everyone benefits and the two combined nations could have moved on to conquer more territory with a larger amount of troops. Rome and Carthage could have both grown incredibly as nations and kept peace if the first Punic war had never happened. With the wars the nations missed out on many opportunities for positive change and were weakened as nations.

From a distance they look like rocks or pebbles. A man holds up a rag with a triumphant look on his face. People run around happily. Some dance in the background in bright red clothing. Look closer, zoom in. The pebbles turn into heads. The rag a bearded head. The running people being chased by men with swords. Headless bodies lie on the ground that is stained with red.

http://library.artstor.org/library/iv2.html?parent=true



ROME QUESTIONS What type of naval fighting style did Rome develop? The pirate way, where they’d pull up to an enemy ship and have a land battle on the water.

What was Pompey’s main objective? Pompey wanted fame and trading plans with the east.

What was Caesar’s main objective? Caesar wanted power.

What was Crassus’s main objective? Crassus wanted money and fame.

How did Sulla die? He was eaten by worms.

Name three ways Hannibal was a good general. He developed the ring of steal. He used elephants to get through the Alps. He thought outside of the box and developed alternative out of the norm problem solving methods.

Why did Hannibal hate the Romans? His father burned his hands and forced him to promise to hate Rome.

How many Punic wars were there? 3

Who was involved in the Punic wars and what did they fight over? Why did they fight over this? Explain. In the Punic wars Rome and Carthage fought for Sicily because it’s rich in resources and would be great for naval power and trade.

What did Roman soldiers do when they weren’t fighting? They built roads.

__Technology and Poetry of China__

Some of the greatest contributions to today's astronomy that the Chinese made was spotting eclipses and measuring the distance between certain stars and the earth. This is still used today along with many other methods that modern day astronomists would use.

I actually like the part in the introduction that talked about the development of chinese characters. I thought it was interesting to see how they started as exagerated pictures and turned into more of a complex writing style. When first reading it I thought that the original way of writing was like cherades on paper since the symbols were overexhagerated pictures.

I'd like to learn more about the development of writing but mostly of the picture stage since it realtes to drawing.

If I were to travel back in time and go to China I'd like to see different methods that the astronomers in the past used to measure distnce and do certain things and I'd like to learn more about the writing in a hands on way.

This first poem shows how a farmer works hard for a pretty ungrateful crowd. He'll make many food items and work for hours in the hot sun working hard to put food on your plate which could just be thrown out or unapreciated. It gives the hardworking farmer a voice and shows some of the pain he goes through just to make the food we eat everyday. The poem gives a description of the working conditions of the farmer by saying noonday sun at the beginning. This can tell us that the sun is out and high which would make it hot and more uncomfortable and harder to work in. The poem also tells us of how he sweatd and goes through all of the things he does to farm for ungrateful people.

This poem shows how the poet felt when writing it. She felt like she was held back and caged in by her dress since when somone sees a silk dress being worn they might think 'oh what a lovely woman wearing that dress' and not think something like 'oh that person might be a poet'. The poet who wrote this tells the audience that she has no voice and no one can see that she's a poet and has much to offer to the world and all she can do is sit back and watch people that are allowed to express themselves and share opinions openly.

In the poem it seems the poet decided to describe a certain scene but from the reading and the poem itself i found it hard to tell.

__ Inventions of China __
 * 1) In China their inventions were important because they helped the Chinese gain fame and the inventions helped everyone’s day to day lives. With the saddle and kite making huge differences in the Chinese community more inventions to come would make more of a difference. The Chinese junk was a ship built in a strange way. It was made to be very safe and to give the crew more control of the boat. The style it was made was unheard of at the time.
 * I think that the wheel barrel was created in china because of what the author says about the early models of it. If the Chinese had created the kite then it would make sense for an early wheel barrel model to have sails that caught wind like a kite.
 * The invention that was most important to Chinese culture would be the kite. I chose the kite because though the saddle would help in day to day life and in war the kite helped everyone in China, from fishermen to bridge builders. The kite could ever be used in war like the story about the airborne combat.
 * I’d like to learn more about inventions that weren’t put to use because of flaws and failure.
 * I’d like to learn more about inventions that weren’t put to use because of flaws and failure.

One of the oldest writtwn langs

Over 4000

Started with oracle bones

Bronze enscriptions in writing

Wrote on bamboo strips

Each character is a single spoken syllable

Each one of the characters that is used in the Chinese writing system is considered to be a single spoken syllable. Historically the writing system had been confined to the use of single meaning symbols that could neither be simplified nor added with one another to produce more words.  Over the years however the writing system received some modification which includes the introduction of poly syllabic symbols. Such symbols were made by combing two or more other symbols. This was something that was alien to the writing system before this time. There have always been a number of different dialects in the Chinese language. The writing system however remains exactly the same for the entire country. The only difference comes in terms of pronunciation. The writing system is known as sinography and the Chinese characters are referred to as sinogrphs. []
 * The development of the writing system**

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Omari Spears History Orange

History should be studied because each person can take something different from it. Whether you want to be the next big inventor, actor or musician you can see something appealing to you in history. Seeing what happened in the past relating to whatever profession you’d like to be could help you become better in the future. Looking at old technology and applying that to the design of a new car or something to make like convenient would help. Things in the past can still help us today such as Chinas old Anastasia which no one ever discovered. If we were to find out how that was used in the past without the medical developments for today we could use natural and renewable resources to give patients a painless surgery. This would help since we’re quickly using up our non renewable resources and pushing ourselves further into global warming. History could be used for musicians to show them how music developed and they could use their knowledge of past musical theories to make something modern and amazing. This can go as far back as ancient Asia where some scales originated. Studying history is also good for people who just want to know what happened in the past. Not knowing what happened before you were alive could be strange. You’d just know now and nothing more. You couldn’t be fascinated with ancient civilization, dinosaurs or anything. Knowing the past can also show you that certain ideas worked and didn’t work so you’d know about them so you wouldn’t try the same thing and fail. Studying history is overall important in different ways for different people. No matter what you do in life it’ll come in handy. It’s also good to know what happened before you and to know of the myths that started some civilizations. History should be taught to everyone in any way shape or form and is an essential part of learning.