Mesopatonmia and early society In the new forming world

1.Mesopotamia Fertile river beds, lush plant life, temperatures that ranged from cool to hot throughout the year, and seasonal flooding. When this is thought about in your mind, you may think its Pennsylvania, but its not, its some where that no one without background knowledge could believe, and that is dead in the center of present day desert ridden Iraq. At the time well before Christ, there was a magnificent civilization, actually one of the …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…of the bible. In many ways, the Near Eastern world greatly affected the Hebrew religion and the bible. For on, we all know about Noahs Arc and the great flood. Well, what is not known by many people is that the story about Noah is related to the epic of Gilgamesh, which was written hundreds of years earlier. Other ways Hebrew religion was affected by near eastern traditions is in the practice and the gods.