Jacob Canales Religon by https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx en-us 2024-10-07 14:35:15 UTC 2024-10-08 14:57:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Religion 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157199511 2024-10-07 14:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157199511 I think that religion is the most important characteristic in ancient Mesopotamia because most people that lived in Mesopotamia at the time believed in a certain god which all seemed to keep them alive for quite a while. 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157209608 2024-10-07 14:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157209608 Evidence I can use to soupourt this claim is "Mesopotamia was polytheistic, which means people worshiped many deities, not just one. From cuneiform tablets, historians have identified seven major gods and thousands of minor gods. Each city also had its own patron god or goddess. The Seven Divine Powers." 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157217544 2024-10-07 14:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157217544 This is impacting them because they used religion/ gods to explain different things like why the sun comes up at night and why the rain falls and why the floods come. Without this sense they would have gone crazy without an explanation for the world and would not have done some of the things they did without it. 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157218924 2024-10-07 14:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157218924 as well as "Many religions have a creation myth; Mesopotamia’s went beyond creation to give people their purpose in life" 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157221767 2024-10-07 14:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157221767 This quote shows that all these different religions helped them do the things they did and have a kind of idea of how the world might have worked. 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157224002 2024-10-07 14:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157224002 However, some may disagree and say that justice and government but without religion, the mesopotamians would not have a sense of how the world worked, and without religion, Mesopotamia would be crazy and not have a sort of system of the world. 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157236660 2024-10-07 14:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3157236660 To understand how religion developed, we must first consider the history of written language. The Sumerian civilization was the first to create written records, around 3300 BCE. Religious beliefs and practices. To write, a person would carve lines and triangles, which we now call cuneiform, onto a wet clay tablet. Once it dried and hardened, it could last for a long time, religion was around long before people started writing 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3159384288 2024-10-08 14:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3159384288 This quote shows the understanding of how religion came before everything especially written language. 8340811 https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3159386938 2024-10-08 14:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/8340811/yd09ojnkuog2cetx/wish/3159386938