Enheduana

 

Leon, Vicki. "Enheduana Of Sumer." Preface. Outrageous Women of Ancient Times. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N.

pag. Print.


Enheduana was the first author to put their name on their tablet that they wrote on. She was a scribe which is someone who could write. They wrote in Cuneiform which was writing on a clay tablet using a tool called a stylus.

                                                 

Enheduana  was the daughter of King Sargon. She was also the sister of two twin boys named Rimush and Manishtusu. They had both became King, but they were both killed.Sargon was raised in a farming family, then he became a cup bearer, and from cup bearer to King, no one knows how that even happened. Enheduana was a very intelligent and motivated person. Her father sent her as a teenager to Ur as a High Priestess. She wrote religious poems, normal poems, and stories. She lived at the top of a Ziggurat so she was closer to the heavens. Enheduana was a very popular author because a long time ago there were not many copies of stories or poems but one of her poems were on over fifty of tablets. After both of Enheduana's twin brothers had died her nephew became King. Enheduana's nephew fired her as a High Priestess and expelled her to the dessert. Her nephew then made his daughter the High Priestess. However now almost nobody knows who her nephew was but everybody knows Enheduana was.

Help Wanted Ads

This is an ad that I made for a confectioner in Mesopotamia.

Landau, Elaine. The Babylonians. N.p.: n.p., 2010. 39-44. Print. Hammurabi's Babylonia.


The start of laws were in Babylon. That was in Mesopotamia. The King who made the first set of rules was named Hammurabi. He wanted justice, or in other words, everything fair. The set of rules that he made was called, "Code of Hammurabi". A lot of his rules were fair for his time, but not for our time, for example, if a builder sells a house and the house kills the owner, then the builder is killed. If the house kills the owners son, then the builders son is killed. I think that for the most part the beginning of this law is fair, but I don't think that the sons dieing is fair. An example of I rule that I think is fair is if a witness lies in court and the person being accused has a death penalty than it is fair if the witness dies. Also if it is about houses the witness that lies would have to pay a fine. A law that I find completely unfair is someone steals another persons slave that persons slave will be killed. Some of the rules they had then are similar to ours such as if your animal attacks someone that the owner would have to pay a big fine. Though a lot of these rules are not fair the rules that Hammurabi made are the bases of all the laws we have now.

Day in the Life of a Bronze age Trader

Hello my name is Abby, I am going to walk you through one day of my life in Mesopotamia. I live in a nice climate. It is not to hot or too cold so me and my tribe can live here easily. Also we live by two rivers called the Tigris and Euphrates river. They have clean water that we can drink from and we also use the water to water our crops. Everyone here has a certain role to play in our society. They can be farmers, traders, leaders, hunters, gatherers, and other jobs for tasks we might need done. As for me, I am a trader. I go to the market all day to sell, and trade our goods. I usually trade what we have a surplus of. We usually have a surplus of, grains, bronze tools, and stone tools. Now let’s head out to the market.

Before I leave I have to fill my carts up with all of the goods that I want to sell. On my carts I am using a brand new invention. That invention is the wheel. The wheel helps us move our good farther, it also helps us take more of our goods at once. Okay, now that we are all packed up lets go. Before we get to the market you might want to know that they are quite crowded so be careful.  You know what some of my goods are, but since I have some extra time I can tell you the others. They are weapons, pottery, tools, baskets, cloth, food, and spices. When we eventually get to the market we will be trading others for things that we want or need. We will not be trading our things for grain because we do not need any more of it. Oh look over there, it is the market. Today is going to be a busy day.

Now I try to grab attention to my products so they think that my products are the best. Oh here is a costumer that seems interested in our helmets, let me show you how I sell. Hello would you like trade your cattle for these helmets. These helmets are made of bronze. They are very hard, harder than copper. Yes, yes, two cows for five helmets, do we have a deal. Ok good here you go. See this was a good trade because, we did not need so many helmets but we do need some cattle.  Ooh another person. These are very good weapons they are very strong and reliable. Ok just give me six grinders for ten of these. I do this for the rest of this and every other afternoon. The rest of my sales usually go the same way for the rest of the night. So I do not keep you all night I would just like to say that this is the life of a merchant in Mesopotamia.

Last Humans Standing

"Last Human Standing." Becoming Human. PBS NOVA. 31 Aug. 2011. Television.

You might be asking,"Why are we the only humans left what about Homo erectus, Neanderthals, or Homo hidelberg?". Well this question has many different answers, all of them might not be correct because, we cannot just go back into the past and see why they died out, we have to make inferences on what evidence we have. As far as we know, two major factors that helps us survive are; our changed diet and climate change. During an ice age Homo Sapiens moved to the water. That helped them improve intelligence. That is because, they got food from the ocean. To do that they had to know when the tide would be low so it was safe for them to catch food. For that they studied the pattern of the moon, so we started to get more intelligent. The way that diet changed us was that; when we moved to the water we started eat sea food because that was the food there. We had to start making new tools to survive, and they were for fishing and other ways of getting food. This also increased their intelligence into what we are now. Why we are the only human that survived, there are so many ideas we might never know why....

From Grunts to Grammar

Miller, Jeanne. "From Grunts to Grammar: The Evolution of Language." Odyssey: Adventures in Science

Oct. 2009: 34-36. Print.

Language, how, and why? Well, around 2.5 million years ago language was just getting started it was not like how we communicate now. We might have started to speak as steps to making tools got more complex and they needed a wider explanation to make it. Also it is easier to warn if something is coming. 35 to 40 years ago we started to communicate with a complex language which is part of the reason we are thriving now. We started to speak because our larynes started to go down our throat a bit so we could talk.

Taming Fire: The First Scientist

Cox, Mary Beth. "'Taming Fire: The First Scientist?'" Odyssey: Adventures in Science Oct. 2009:

29-30. Print.

Fire, fire, fire... Why! It is so dangerous and in some ways scary. Why did we start to make them? A long time ago they hated fires, fires destroyed their lives. It destroyed what they lived in and what they had to eat. We started to make fires around 250,000 years ago. The first use of fire was about one million years ago. The evidence of use of fire are; hearths which are basic fireplaces and burnt rocks and bones. It is believed that fire is what brought us all together. We used to gather around the camp fire. One of the reasons that we believe we started to make fires was to cook food, also fires kept them warm when it got cold.