Document 2 analysis Strayer
Document 2.1
1.) The Mesopotamian ideal of kingship is looked down upon. The kings treated the commoners & peasants so poorly during this time.
2.) That the afterlife isn’t so great. Gilgamesh goes out to find morality but it turns out it is tragic. “There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat.” That doesn’t sound like much fun. That states that even in the afterlife you can be miserable.
3.) The philosophy of life that comes from the Gilgamesh Story is that, you should appreciate what you have in the life you live, and not try to find it somewhere else. (Or in a power beyond you.)
4.) The epic portrays the gods as awful people, they don’t have a great relationship with people, and they treat them poorly.
Document 2.2
1.) Shown from the Code of Hammurabi, one can conclude that they were very adamant about getting what was right. Society was all for it, shown in “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.” The economy wasn’t great. If something went wrong, the king would take his life or his home. They wanted the city to be kept in good conditions, “If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded… he would be sentenced to punishment,” because of the crop damage.
2.) The kind of economy prevailed in the region was either you were rich or you were poor.
3.) The different social groups mentioned in this code were mainly peasants. Slaves, and poorer men and women. There are specific sections “On Class and Slavery” and “On Men and Women”.
4.) Women couldn’t, “open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death…” “If the ‘finger is pointed’ at another man’s wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband…” women couldn’t drink or cheat on their husbands. But women could declare a man to not
1.) The Mesopotamian ideal of kingship is looked down upon. The kings treated the commoners & peasants so poorly during this time.
2.) That the afterlife isn’t so great. Gilgamesh goes out to find morality but it turns out it is tragic. “There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay their meat.” That doesn’t sound like much fun. That states that even in the afterlife you can be miserable.
3.) The philosophy of life that comes from the Gilgamesh Story is that, you should appreciate what you have in the life you live, and not try to find it somewhere else. (Or in a power beyond you.)
4.) The epic portrays the gods as awful people, they don’t have a great relationship with people, and they treat them poorly.
Document 2.2
1.) Shown from the Code of Hammurabi, one can conclude that they were very adamant about getting what was right. Society was all for it, shown in “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.” The economy wasn’t great. If something went wrong, the king would take his life or his home. They wanted the city to be kept in good conditions, “If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded… he would be sentenced to punishment,” because of the crop damage.
2.) The kind of economy prevailed in the region was either you were rich or you were poor.
3.) The different social groups mentioned in this code were mainly peasants. Slaves, and poorer men and women. There are specific sections “On Class and Slavery” and “On Men and Women”.
4.) Women couldn’t, “open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death…” “If the ‘finger is pointed’ at another man’s wife about another man, but she is not caught sleeping with the other man, she shall jump into the river for her husband…” women couldn’t drink or cheat on their husbands. But women could declare a man to not