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#1 The people of Mesopotamia, who lived in the area now known as Iraq, fought against the effects of time. They lived as if in sand castles, constantly building and rebuilding a world that would eventually be washed away. Nothing endured.
#2 The Mesopotamians were able to overcome the constraints of time only in their record keeping, and this led to the habit of kings giving names to years. The system allowed the kings to commemorate their achievements, including the building of structures that would not last.
#3 The first solution to any problem for the Mesopotamians was building, and they built walls to protect themselves and their cities. The drudgery of building these walls was accepted as part of life.
#4 The walls of the cities were not for everyone. The shepherds, who lived outside the walls, had little use for them. They were a rough and fearless lot, skilled with slings, throw sticks, and staffs.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	13 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669353850
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The people of Mesopotamia, who lived in the area now known as Iraq, fought against the effects of time. They lived as if in sand castles, constantly building and rebuilding a world that would eventually be washed away. Nothing endured.

#2

The Mesopotamians were able to overcome the constraints of time only in their record keeping, and this led to the habit of kings giving names to years. The system allowed the kings to commemorate their achievements, including the building of structures that would not last.

#3

The first solution to any problem for the Mesopotamians was building, and they built walls to protect themselves and their cities. The drudgery of building these walls was accepted as part of life.

#4

The walls of the cities were not for everyone. The shepherds, who lived outside the walls, had little use for them. They were a rough and fearless lot, skilled with slings, throw sticks, and staffs.

#5

Shepherds were admired in the ancient Near East, but they were also widely feared. They were the sort of men who could defend a city, but they could never build one.

#6

The idea that the life of the cities had softened men and left them less suited for war was widespread in the ancient Near East. Occasionally, an Old Testament prophet would voice a similar idea while exhorting his countrymen to abandon walled Jerusalem and return to their tents.

#7

The first civilization, the Mesopotamians, were a timid lot. They could not have known that their experiment of cities, farms, priests, scribes, and walls would even succeed. The world outside their walls was not exactly uninhabited, but it was dangerous.

#8

The first fantastic dreams of a walled kingdom grew out of the first great invasions of the late third millennium. The record of destruction is astonishing: Egypt, Syria, Canaan, Akkad, Sumer, Troy, Elam, the Indus Valley, and Anatolia all suffered.

#9

The wall that Shulgi built was intended to protect the kingdom from invaders, but in reality it only protected the cities for a short period of time. The impact of the wall was marginal and temporary, and it could not withstand the attacks of the Amorites.

#10

In literature, it is not the Amorites but other highland barbarians who bring down the walled kingdom created by Shulgi. A god is said to have dispatched the Gutians in an invasion. The mountain men smash the heads of their victims and fill the Euphrates with floating corpses.

#11

The Egyptians made their own attempts at walling off their state. The Pharaoh Amenemhat I constructed a fortification called the Wall of the Ruler, but no trace of this wall has survived.

#12

The walls of Babylon were just a start. Mesopotamian rulers continued to build defensive walls to protect their nations for more than another thousand years.

#13

The basket carriers were a civilization that was forced to live behind walls because of the fear of barbarians. They were not interested in re-evaluating their defensive strategy, and so they died off.

#14

The German American businessman Heinrich Schliemann began excavations near the Turkish village of Hisarlik in 1871. He brought with him all the patience of a visionary, but none at all when it came to archaeological method. He smashed ancient structures and tossed aside relics with abandon.

#15

The Greeks of the classical era, who were separated from the heyday of Mycenae by more than a few centuries, were not as impressed with the ruins of Agamemnon’s city as Schliemann was. They imagined that Mycenae’s massive limestone fortifications were the work of monsters.

#16

The Spartans were known for their economy of expression, and they practiced it through years of training. They viewed the habit of sleeping securely behind walls as a demonstration of cowardice, and they saw nothing admirable about a peaceful population of civilian basket carriers refusing to come out and fight.

#17

The Spartans were a unique civilization that believed in the primitive strength of their ancestors. They had no conception of their ancestors as civilians who took shelter during periods of danger.

#18

The Spartan economy, in its early days, could have supported the loftiest ambitions of civilization. Spartans owned land yet were generally freed from the burden of toiling in the fields. They possessed abundant leisure that might have been turned toward literature, mathematics, art, philosophy, or theater. But they chose to reject these things in favor of a forced, artificial barbarism.

#19

The Spartan lifestyle was one of simplicity and isolation. They were the first people to play games naked, and they were the first to take off their clothes in public. They also denied themselves the luxuries they feared softened them.

#20

The Spartans had a clear vision of what it meant to be a man, and sleeping inside women’s quarters was not part of it. The Spartans didn’t require fortifications of limestone blocks because they were defended by walls of men.

#21

The Greeks were the first to set aside their weapons in everyday life, and it was the Athenians who were first among the Greeks to take the initial step of setting aside their weapons in everyday life. The Athenians were also Greece’s most prolific builders of walls.

#22

The Athenians were able to extend their walls all the way to the sea, and they were able to maintain their maritime umbilical cord even under siege. They were thus able to experience war in an entirely new way.

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