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I chose to have a walled background to represent the xenophobic culture of Mesopotamia, as the land outside the city were wilds, thought to be protected by gods and evil creatures. The flood is representative of their perspective of their gods and of their own importance. the gods are cruel and send floods in resentment of their technology/knowledge. The farmland is pulled back to the walls for the fear the gods wrath and the creatures outside.

Joseph BIV

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Early Mesopotamian gods watching over mortals that are farming near a river.

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The gods significantly influenced Mesopotamian life, providing agriculture, life, knowledge, and beliefs. The gods created the floods to give fertile soil to the farmers and cultivators. In return for these gifts from the gods the people worshiped and did as the gods commanded.

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I chose Enki looking over the waters of Mesopotamia because he blessed the waters causing regular floods helping the agriculture and the people prepare for the floods because they always knew when it was gonna flood.

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I chose Enki looking over the waters of Mesopotamia because he blessed the waters causing regular floods helping the agriculture and the people prepare for the floods because they always knew when it was gonna flood.- Amber Swaney

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I choose this image because it shows the three Mesopotamian gods Enki, the god of wisdom and magic, Anu, the sky god, and Enlil, the god of earth. They looking over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers at the humans using Agriculture to create a living for them self

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I chose to have a walled background to represent the xenophobic culture of Mesopotamia, as the land outside the city were wilds, thought to be protected by gods and evil creatures. The flood is representative of their perspective of their gods and of their own importance. the gods are cruel and send floods in resentment of their technology/knowledge. The farmland is pulled back to the walls for the fear the gods wrath and the creatures outside.

Joseph BIV

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With Mesopotamia kickstarting agriculture, it came with riches and trading goods.

Some people got rich, some got more work, and people got more food.

more food mean more people that mean more ideas, more ideas mean more inventions, more invention mean life can be more easier. altogether agriculture was and still is good for civilization to this day

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Michael S.- I chose this prompt and image because A ziggurat was a place of worship and considering priests were higher than kings, they were responsible for the distribution of food and other goods while farmers and other workers handed their goods to the priests and the farmers and other workers would tend to the crops and animals within the city. The relationship between the priests being higher than the kings and extremely important in the city was shown because the priests were supposedly the only people that could directly talk to the gods.

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 I choose this because Enki was their god that the Mesopotamians looked up to and in their myth about Enki. He made the river valleys and gave the rivers the blissfulness of his touch. He used the earth to grow plants to help the humans with agriculture.                                                                                                       Ayden F.

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I chose Enki looking over a Mesopotamian city because he symbolizes agriculture and how it caused the exponential growth of human civilization. Enki represents agriculture because he is the one who taught it to the Mesopotamian people in the creation myth. The city is a product of his (agriculture's) influence and illustrates how much it helped create the first human civilizations.

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Kai Zulu

Mesopotamia beliefs and agriculture was the main important part of the Mesopotamia people and empire. The people that live in Mesopotamia believe gods like Enki, gods who were the creators of the people and earth. The Mesopotamians believed and worshiped these gods and thought that they were higher than human royalty. The Mesopotamian prayed to the gods to show gratitude for the gifts they gave them, examples are wisdom, water and life.

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This image is showing farmers farming at the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the background is Ur and a ziggurat .I chose these topics because agriculture, Ur, Ziggurats and Tigris and Euphrates were a big part of their civilization. They were also very important to their myths and religion The epic of Gilgamesh and Enki creation myth. They needed to have agriculture and a roof over their heads to survive so that's why I chose those two things in the prompt. Ziggurats are important because that's where they worship their gods.

The rivers are important because they flood enrich the soil and allows the Mesopotamian people to make mor crops.

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People farming around a river in Mesopotamia.

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Within the myths it talks about agriculture and how Enki blessed the rivers. They blamed the gods for the flooding, and that they were jealous of the Mesopotamians. They all wanted to be the number one civilization, so they created the myths so they could gain power over the land. These myths did not shape their culture, the culture shaped the myths. For millions of years mankind was all cavemen, and then there was change, they began to get smarter, and had new technology. This clashed with the culture that was formed for millions of years, so Gilgamesh showed how the clash of civilizations impacted them. With this change agriculture became important for the growth of the civilizations.

Elliot H.

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I'm interested in the wild man and how he became a key character and an example of foe-to-friend, and why Ishtar unjustly killed thousands over one boy.

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Kai Zulu

Something I find interesting is that Ishtar was mad that she got rejected. She shouldn't have caused a flood over rejection.

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Jermell Pellegrino

what i find the most interesting is the fight with the giant

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He was found to be a good romantic partner for a goddess. Then he rejected her so she flooded the place.

Elliot H.

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-Ayden

What I think is interesting is how Ishtar loved Gilgamesh and wanted to be his lover, but he rejected her and forced him to suffer the consequences. I find this interesting because people normally wouldn't reject a goddess when their human or part human

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Ryder.C The Giant that they fought would be something very interesting to learn about. and how the fight went.

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What i find interesting is his relation with his friend Enkidu. I find his relation with Enkidu a little interesting because in the story it states that he was made to chalenge Gilgamesh, but he said he was his friend and even chalenged a giant together.

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What I find is the most interesting part of the story is Gilgamesh and his friend fight a giant and his friend dies. I find this the most interesting part of the story because I like fighting giants.

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i found that the most interesting part of the story was the fact that the gods created a being that was supposed to fight gilgemesh and they endded up becoming friends

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Graham J.

I think its weird that he's 2/3rds divine and one third human. Usually its half and half, but maybe this is more realistic since genes are not perfectly 50/50. Or Maybe he was created, not born.

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I think that it was like a fight then love than fight

-Trent

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Michael S.

The thing I find the most interesting is that Ishtar made Gilgamesh and his kingdom suffer consequences because he rejected her advances. I found this interesting because a lot of gods in different mythologies make humans suffer because they reject advances from gods who are romantically interested in them.

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The wild man would be something I would be interested in learning. How did he go from an obstacle to an ally?