Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Answers to questions about Enheduana Of Sumer

1: Books in that time were written with a stylus, which is a utility used to inscribe pictograms on the clay tablets which were the book.

2: Enheduana Lived in sumer, the city-state that she lived in was Akkad, her father was the ruler of Kish and Akkad he slowly expanded his rule over to other cities.

3: Enheduana was kicked out of the palace as high priestess  by her nephew. As high Priestess she had to Pray and preform rituals on a yearly basis, she also recorded important religious happenings in poems.

4: The evidence that shows this is the fact that 50 clay tablets were found with the same poem inscribed on them, at that time that was a grand amount of tablets.

5: She had a poem talking about how she got kicked out and it also states that she will have the last laugh.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Catal Hoyuk

Why is Catal Hoyuk an important archaeological find?
Catal Hoyuk is itself big and covers 23 acres but its importance in the historic and archeological studies is even bigger. Catal Hoyuk is was one of the largest cities or towns in the Neolithic period, it covered 23 acres ( 27 football fields) and had 1000 homes or even more. It also showed signs of religion and places of worship, historians know this because religious artifacts were found in certain buildings supposedly temples. The most important fact is the fact that it is one of the most important developments in permanent settlement, it is important because it shows that early humans settled in very large groups and slowly formed cities. Building a city this large was a sign of development towards farming agriculture and permanent settlements.