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College Lecture

Topic: Mesopotamian Myths and Religion

Essential Question: What does Mesopotamian Myths and Religion illustrate about Mesopotamian culture?

Collegiate Reminders!-You’ve practiced identifying MI and

pulling out key terms-What about info that’s not a key term?-Focus on finding “sub points” that will

reinforce or elaborate on the main idea-Indent this information in your notes

under main idea info

Polytheistic

CFUWhat is the Main Idea?

Mesopotamian religion is polytheisticWhat Key Terms did you have?

Polytheism is the belief in more than one godHow many sub points did you have?– Mesopotamian gods controlled the forces of

nature– Enil is the god of storms and air– Humans were considered servants of the gods

• How did you know there were three sub points?

CFU• How many sub points? • What are they? • What is a ziggurat?

CFU• Main Idea

– Mesopotamians were pessimistic

• How many sub points? (3)- did not believe in afterlife- “land of no return” where dead souls went to was gloomy- believed gods would send diseases or natural disasters when

angry

Think, Pair, ShareWhy would Mesopotamians have a pessimistic outlook on life?

30 sec. think, 30 second pair, 1 min share

Epic of Gilgamesh