Arion Gonzalez: Religion by Arion Gonzalez

Evidence #1 Elements of civilization

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:36:23 UTC

In the article "elements of civilization" it states, "Instead of asking why, he would look for ways to honor the gods so they might help his crops grow."

Religion

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:37:57 UTC

Religion was the most influential characteristic on ancient Mesopotamia.

Evidence #2 Elements of civilation

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:39:50 UTC

In the same article “Elements Of Civilization” it says, “The gods and goddesses controlled everything, even the weather! People had to please them to earn good fortune and have a good life”

Evidence #3 Epic of Gilgamesh

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:41:25 UTC

In the famous Mesopotamian story “Epic Of Gilgamesh” the story says,“Shamash, the god of justice, raised against Humbaba the great storm-winds”

Reasoning #1 Elements of Civilation

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:43:30 UTC

This demonstrates how the people in ancient Mesopotamia believed and honored the gods. They expected in return they would get good luck and their civilization would thrive. By thriving I mean enough food, good social stricter and a great king.

Reasoning #2 Elements of Civilization

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:46:16 UTC

This shows how the people in Mesopotamian honored there religion. They wanted to have a happy life and in order to have that they needed to participate in there religion.

Reasoning #3 Epic of Gilgamesh

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:47:54 UTC

This demonstrates how Smash the god of justice helped Gilgamesh on a quest. Smash helped Gilgamesh because Gilgamesh honored the gods and made them happy. This leed to his civilization happy with new resources (cedar tress).

Crops

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:53:32 UTC

In Mesopotamia they became experts with farming. Farming was the best food source the Mesopotamia's had. If the farming was suddenly failing they would pray the gods for a solution to there problems.

Gods

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:55:46 UTC

In Mesopotamia the people honored the gods a lot and saw them as the creators.

Shamash

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 15:58:44 UTC

Shamash is the god of justice, he helped Gilgamesh because Gilgamesh honored him and made him happy.

Gilgamesh

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 16:00:42 UTC

This is Gilgamesh, a king that has powers and faced a god (Humbaba) while on a quest to find cedar trees.

Humbaba

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 16:04:06 UTC

This is Humbaba, the guardian of the forest, stooping Gilgamesh from taking his cedar trees.

Mesopotamia Map

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 16:07:47 UTC

This is a map of Mesopotamia to get you an idea on how it looked like. (Super duper useful information that you will need your hole life don't forget (: .)

Mesopotamia civilation

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 16:08:42 UTC

This image represents the Mesopotamia civilization thriving.

Weather

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 16:09:51 UTC

These are different types of whether, whether that gods and goddesses could control in Mesopotamia.

Good furtune

840360_2 — 2024-10-07 20:05:29 UTC

This is an image of good fortune (loots of money.)

Mesopotamia Social structer Counter Claim

840360_2 — 2024-10-09 15:27:12 UTC

On the other hand some people might argue that Social structure had the most important and influential role in ancient Mesopotamia.

Argument social structer

840360_2 — 2024-10-09 15:33:13 UTC

Some people might argue that Social structer had the most impact. This is because social structure established Mesopotamia jobs. If there would have been no jobs, Civilization wouldn't be made.

Counter Claim disagreement

840360_2 — 2024-10-09 15:40:55 UTC

While its true that Civilization needs people to do jobs. How would they know what job to have if they had nobody to follow. For example the king of Civilization was a leader chosen by god. This is part of there religion. If they had no religion then then, there not a civilization. Every civilization had a religion at that time.

Religion

840360_2 — 2024-10-09 15:44:26 UTC

This image represents different types of religions of different civilizations.

King

840360_2 — 2024-10-09 15:46:02 UTC

This image represents a king from a civilization.