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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
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Sumerian: 4000 BCE-2300 BCE
Akkadian: 2300 BCE-1800
Babylonian: 1800-538
Assyrian: 1000-700
• Cuneiform
• polytheist; anthropomorphic
• Enuma elish
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
–Ishtar; Utnapishtim
• Hammurabi
• I Will Praise the Lord of
Wisdom – Marduk
Egypt
• Nile; hieroglyphs; syncretism
• Isis & Osiris
• Pharaoh Amenhotep IV
• Akenaten; Aton
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