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Intro To World Literature: Ignatius Joseph N Estroga
Intro To World Literature: Ignatius Joseph N Estroga
Intro To World Literature: Ignatius Joseph N Estroga
WORLD
LITERATURE
EGYPTIAN
LITERATURE
HEBREW LITERATURE
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• THE ANCIENT LITERATURE AND
HISTORICAL RECORDS HELP US
UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE AND
WISDOM OF THESE PEOPLE
SUMERIANS LIVED IN
CITY-STATES BUILT
AROUND ZIGGURATS
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ziggurat
SUMERIAN’S
CREATED…
Wealthy merchants
Slaves
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Women
• Could hold property
• Join lower ranks of
priesthood
• There were few women
scribes
– Scholars think that girls
were not allowed to
attend schools
The Nile provided water and fertile soil for growing crops
Pharaoh
Single; powerful ruler
Joseph won favor with the Pharaoh and saved his family
from starvation
Once Solomon died there was confusion in the twelve tribes. The tribes
divided into two kingdoms but still thought of themselves as one
spiritual body
The Assyrians came and conquered Israel; the tribes dispersed and are
now referred to as the “Ten Lost Tribes”
Cyrus the Great came and freed the slaves, they returned to Jerusalem
and rebuilt everything that was destroyed. Their belief stayed strong