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Notes on video lecture:
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Humbaba and the Country
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 14, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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Enkidu, Humbaba, Lebanon, restraining, cedar, heroic, moral, Euphrates, negotiate, chieftan, lumber, forest, imperial, urban, sleeping, subdue, curse, roof, tribute, irrigation, scarce, pervasive, countryside
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Gilgamesh and              have become friends
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go out of the city to slay the monster               
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Humbab is inhabiting and protecting a wild             
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they leave the city to raid the countryside, cut down the forest and slay the monster
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particularly in the ancient Near East, the environment is an extremely                    factor
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the city needs the                       
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the cities are large and dependent on a large number of serf population in the countryside
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dependent on the              resources of water and timber
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Gilgamesh is known for two things
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1. building a wall around his city
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2. digging wells and                      projects
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the control of these things are important
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cities are made out of baked clay, mud and bricks
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but if you want a palace, you need          beams and doors
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for this they deforested Western Persia
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so they went to               
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journies to get lumber were described as some of the great expeditions of life
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you don't need gold in the same way you need             
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you can't just steal lumber and come back
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you have to              a population and then spend time harvesting the lumber
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lumber is not easily portable
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you have float it down the                   , it takes time
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Ashurbanipal's library
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from where the best version of the Gilgamesh ethic is dug up
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they mainly wanted            wood, not fir
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in the Ashurbanipal's library is an account of a builder saying that he wanted in writing that he had to use substandard fir instead of cedar
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when Gilgamesh goes to get cedar, this means that he has                  ambitions
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this section celebrates the cutting down of a forest and the            space
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today we see this as not a              deed
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the flood story
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people are multiplying to much and getting to noisy, the gods are having trouble                 
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in Genesis, people are sinful
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but in Gilgamesh, it is a            them as such
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Humbaba
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they start to                    with him
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he's like a rival                  of a small polity that they are controlling
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the question is do you lay waste to these people or do you find a way to live with them so that the                becomes a sustainable resource
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they kill Humbaba whom they should rather have as a subsidiary vassal
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leads to the            that will lead to Enkidu's death
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"if a sheep's intestine looks like Humbaba's face, it signifies revolution"
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Enkidu should be giving better advice to Gilgamesh, by                        him, by saying don't kill Humbaba
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on the contrary, Enkidu eggs Gilgamesh on

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