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David Taus History 9/29/08   Museum Research Project outline: Ziggurats and why they are important into major ziggurats and their background story Thesis is Ziggurats and their background story have been important throughout history Ziggurats in general · Ziggurat= step pyramid base to temple in meso · 32 in meso area 28 in Iraq and 4 in Iran Top had a shrine no shrines surrvive today · Cities built around them · High so no pollution from smoke got to cities also let priests escape floods · Large complexes including bathrooms · Rituals done inside to honor gods · Full purpose still unknown · Thought to be dwellings for gods · Tiers of a Ziggurat ranged from 2 – 7 · Priests only ones allowed in side a Ziggurat · Priests were very powerful as they were the ones who cared for the gods Marduk · Ziggurat called marduk who was patron god of babylon · Marduk came from shady begginings to be lord of gods based on babylon’s greatness · Etemenanki temple dedicated to marduk · Etemenanki supposedly was 91 meters tall · Marduk was originally a god of magic who became superior while young Nippur ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Place where supreme god Enlil created Humanity ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Never a capital but retained great importance because of temples and religious nature of city ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Founded in 5000BCE abandoned in 800CE when abandoned had muslim population with jews and christians ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Exstensive canals due to insufficient rainfall ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> In 250CE the Zig became arcropolis the temple made into a fortress ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> City degenerated into mud huts around the ziggurat after rule of Sassanids Ziggurat of Ur ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  Dedicated to the moon ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Built in 2100BCE ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Built near meso city Ur   ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  Ur later got sacked by the Elamites ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Great Ziggurat of Ur later was rebuilt by Saddam Hussein King SHulgi ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> Finished construction in 2100BC by king Shulgi ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> King Shilgi proclaimed himself a god <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  During his 48 year reign Ur was a capital city in meso -master of all weapons and instruments -scribe - 200 miles in a hailstorm -catch gazelle running/kill tiger unaided Sialk and other Ziggurats built by the Elamites -Sialk 3rd millenium BCE, Choqa Zanbil 1250BCE, Susa Ziggurat 1800BCE, and Haft Teppeh 1375BCE all in Khuzestan - Sialk 3

sources Encyclopedia Brittanica Mesopotamia Museum Site (the one that we had homework on) http://www.ancientneareast.net/religion_mesopotamian/gods/marduk.html http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Places/Place/642322 http://www.livius.org/es-ez/etemenanki/etemenanki.html http://www.crystalinks.com/pyramidiraq.html http://www.amazeingart.com/seven-wonders/ziggurat.html

Double space essay

<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Looked at book at end of class from Friday; <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Over weekend, read a couple of pages, <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">What did you do over the weekend? No reading, no library; <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Switching to ziggerauts – <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Need to email advisor and parent that didn’t accomplish weekend goals. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Got nothing; tried religion, not interested.

For documentary pitch cave CHANGED Peloponesian wars(terrible speller)

Notes: Different wars over many years (More notes later mainly worked on outline) NOT FINAL DRAFT