Humanities Homework Help

Background of Gilgamesh

Please spend some time at the following website The Big Myth. Make sure you watch Babylonian Creation and read Babylonian Culture and Pantheon. Then, answer the following questions within a slideshow or a prezi. Your presentation should utilize google slides or Prezi. Never used Prezi? Check out this informational video.

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Your presentation should contain the answers to the following questions:

1. Look at a map of the world. Where is Mesopotamia? What different names has this region had in history? What is it known as today? (4 points)
2. What are the codes of Hammurabi? Select a few to describe. (5 points)
3. What gods are mentioned in the creation myth? How are they related to one another? (5 points)
4. Describe the war between the gods. Who belonged to what side? What was the cause of the war? (5 points)
5. In some versions of this myth, it is noted that Ea and the birth-goddess Nintu created humans. This differs from what you read. Why is that? (2 points)
6. Make a list of Marduk’s deeds. (3 points)
7. Why did Marduk create people? (1 point)
8. What similarities do you see between the Babylonian creation myth and others that you have studied or know? (2 points)