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HIS 101 History The Carthaginian Law of Sacrifices Essay

 

 compare the development of religious devotion used in early civilizations, especially note the contrast with the two earlier sources and the last. Using your textbook and lecture notes for general background information, formulate a historical thesis with supporting argumentation from the primary documents listed below. You must use both documents in your paper to receive credit, properly cited and referenced. Read the articles thoroughly, with special attention as to how each early culture expresses religious beliefs, place of the gods in their worldview, and the means of their devotion to those beings.

Priestess Enheduanna, “The Exaltation of the Goddess Inana (translation B),” circa 2300 BCE, translation at: “The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature” at http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4072.htm.

“The Carthaginian Law of Sacrifices, 400 BCE,” Ancient History Sourcebook.