The Epic Of Gilgamesh

One of the most fascinating pieces of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, deals with and explores many of the problems humans have wrestled with for thousands of years. Even though the text does not explicitly answer any of the questions it poses, it gives clues that point to the answers. One of these questions, the dilemma of whether to act based solely on a person’s intuition or act based on reason and advice, occurs regularly in the text. Throughout The Epic of Gilgamesh, characters have success and failure when they act based on either their intuition or using reason, but the epic clearly points out, through examples, that acting based on reason instead of intuition constitutes more success in all facets of life.

Justice is described as a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity. The people of ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia also believed and relied on this concept. Rulers, if not fair and just, were often eliminated by their subjects or their enemies. There were many great kings and pharaohs of the ancient age that were just to their kingdoms, and these often went down in history. Yet, those kings and pharaohs who were blinded by their own selfishness often became just as famous. Two men, Akhenaten of ancient Egypt and Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, were such rulers. They were powerful and cunning individuals, yet they let their own selfish nature ruin the ability to be a great

The maturation of Gilgamesh and his desire to acquire wisdom throughout his journey is quite apparent. By overcoming difficulties such as upholding Uruk, becoming friends with Enkidu, and various other scenarios, Gilgamesh proves that he did in fact grow up throughout the epic.

The Middle East is made up of many different countries including Turkey, Syria, Iran (formally known as Persia), Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. For the most part their culture, religion and cuisine is similar due to generations of outside influences. Countries such as Russia, India, America, Spain and even their Middle Eastern neighbours have influenced their cuisine over the years with the introduction of foods such as tomatoes, yoghurt, dates and figs that were introduced to the Persian diet during the Arab invasion, and olive oil (Food in Every Country, 2010).

The Epic of Gilgamesh was the earliest surviving written epic that told story of Gilgamesh king of Uruk that was the world first cities that was built along the Tigris and Euphrates River 5,000 years ago. Aruru created the human race, Enkidu and a wild man who roamed the pasture like a gazelle. The epic of Gilgamesh goddesses and scared harlots wild men who cavort in the fields with the gazelles kings who are descended from gods. The Urban Revolution was recognize the elements of our own world by the Epic of Gilgamesh stands of the beginning of a revolution that transformed us all. Some historians prefer to be call the complex societies of formation of state societies or the rise of the first civilizations. The Uruk of King Gilgamesh begin to developments cities, states, and the whole range of activities and institutions that are complex societies or civilizations entered the world together. Archaeologist of the Middle East was first called the age of cities and states the Bronze Age by the people of the region had learned to smelt bronze cropper and tin that use weapons and tools replaced the Stone Age, Neolithic period or new Stone Age. Some historians called the period cities the preliterate or prehistoric age since there was no writing and written history before the creation of cities 5,000 years ago. The first cities changed the world in countless ways: defensive walls, writing wheels, and wars, kings, priests, soldier’s officials, occupations, crafts, arts, services,

During the era of 600 to 1450 A.D. the Middle East started as an area focused solely on governing trade, but changed to conquering surrounding areas during the Umayyad dynasty, and then to Persian-like administration under the rule of the Abbasid dynasty; however, throughout this period, Arabia remained an important link for trade between Asia and the west because of its geographical location.

The Modern Middle East that most scholars know of today didn’t just come to be overnight, but rather decades worth of events during the 19th century such as WWI helping form the modern Middle East we know of currently. WWI specifically left a political impact to be exact on the political landscape leading to new beginnings and taking away old ones while the 19th century in general led to economic and social changes as well as political changes.

The Middle East has served as the center of art, history, culture, political innovations, and a major geopolitical interest for the Western world. During the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire became of increasing significance to the political economy of European capitalism. European powers were able to structure the terms of their investments in ways that led to the economic and political subordination of the Ottoman Empire and eventually to its destruction. The territory was considered to be strategically valuable to commercial shipping routes and the Europeans projected political and military power in this region. The discovery of oil in the region, particularly Iraq and neighboring Iran contributed to a European and later American involvement

Gilgamesh being two-third God and one-third mortal positively has the quality and special past to be take a gander at has a hero, per say. In any case, he is narrow minded and brutal to his own particular individuals of Uruk, assaulting his nobles' wives, leaving sons without fathers and grabbing whatever he wanted from his people. To add to the disqualification of a leader and hero, Gilgamesh misuse is power. Since Gilgamesh is still a good and not impeccable, Gilgamesh is continually looking for exhortation and assistance from the Divine beings. A hero is not viewed as immaculate particularly if the legend is mortal. By the by, the choices one must make which builds a genuine legend. Gilgamesh in the end chooses to acknowledge his everlasting

One of Iraq’s main topographical features known are the Euphrates River and the Tigris River that flow from the Turkish and Syrian Arab Republic borders in the north to the Gulf in the south. Northeast Iraq consists of mountainous terrain while the country in the west is arid desert. The soil surrounding the two rivers is fertile; but because they lack an effective irrigation system areas around the rivers have flooded and created areas of marshland. (World Travel Guild)

Upon analyzing the two very distinct yet similar cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia and Greece, one can tell that the idolization of the “ideal hero” and their culture orientated traits played an integral role in the structure of each civilization. A civilization can be described as an organizing principle that implies common institution, social structures and values that can extend over space and time (lecture). The said cultures above both contain stories that have transcended centuries, giving people a special insight into these ancient civilizations, and how their values have been passed down and evolved over time. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey are both considerable representations of not only their unique cultures that set the very foundation of both civilization and storytelling, but also for their similar and different aspects of what they considered to be a hero.

The Persian Empire is known today as The Islamic Republic of Iran. The history of Iran goes back further than four thousand years as it is one of the oldest countries in the world. Located in the Middle East bordering Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, Iran is also on the coast of the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, as well as the Caspian Sea. Even though there are deserts in Iran, there are also beautiful mountains as well as beaches. Throughout the years, it has always been of global importance because of its location, as well as because of its continuous supply of petroleum. Iran is rich in mining, gas supplies, copper, pistachios, saffron, steel, gold, silver, Persian carpets, caviar, and minerals. Iran also has the world 's second-largest natural gas reserves. The Western world

Mesopotamia, the region located between Euphrates and Tigris Rivers (presently called lraq), is mostly termed as the cradle of civilization because it is known to be the principle place where compound urban centers developed. Nevertheless, the account of “Mesopotamia is inseparably tied to the larger region which constitutes the contemporary nations of Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, the Gulf Skates, Lebanon, and Israel” (Hunt 23). The greater Mesopotamia is often termed as Near East or simply the Middle East. The history of prehistorically Near East is very complicated and the names of locations and rulers are mostly difficult to read, spell, and even pronounce. Furthermore, the Near East is the part of the globe which today remains remote from the West in terms of culture while political pressures have hampered collective understanding. Despite the complexity of the names and rulers once a person gets the overall geography of the greater region and its antiquity, the art exposes itself as exceptionally intimate, beautiful, and charming in its complexity. The focus is to demonstrate how important it is to know the history of near East and its empires in order to comprehend the history of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire as well as history of the Greeks.

Iran is in the Middle East bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea. It is located between the countries of Iraq and Pakistan. Until the year 1935, Iran was known as Persia. Then in 1979, it became an Islamic Republic when it’s monarch was overthrown. Since that same year,

Throughout history mankind been searching for immortality, to live forever and not be able to fear death ever in life. While human beings are always searching for answers and looking at their failures has a downfall instead of a tool. A four-thousand-year-old narrative in the Mesopotamian era about a long-ago king name Gilgamesh, a historical king that was two thirds god/divine and one third human because of his mortality. Just like any human being growing up in today’s world you go through exceptional trials, Gilgamesh went through many obstacles which he succeeded on his own and with the help of his dearest friend Enkidu. For all the test and trials Gilgamesh endured, it shows that he passes them and gains knowledge from all these experiences and still becomes Uruk hero.