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Get the Summary of Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Ancient World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
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Summary of Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Ancient World - IRB Media
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
The Sumerian tribes lived in what became known as Mesopotamia. They were the first civilization known to history. They settled in the northern Persian Gulf area around 11,000 BC.
#2
The Sumerian king list, an ancient text, features the names of the kings that ruled the area in and around the city of Eridu, which was south of modern-day Iraq. King Alulim was first on the list.
#3
Originally, the northern shore of the Persian Gulf was near modern-day Qatar, but as the climate became warmer, more ice melted from the earth’s poles. This raised the sea level, pushing the shoreline all the way up to Kuwait, which explains the location of Eridu.
#4
The shrinking area of dry land pushed the Sumerians to settle around the Euphrates River and focus on farming, forming the earliest civilization known in history.
#5
The Sumerians needed a leader to manage the people, organize the use of the ever smaller amount of dry land, and gather the ever decreasing rainfall. This need for settlement and organization bred the birth of kings.
Insights from Chapter 2
#1
Although the Sumerian king list states that there was a Great Flood, geologists find it hard to find evidence for such an event, and tend to relate it to the people’s fears of the occasional flood that would destroy their crops.
#2
The reappearance of Great Flood stories in religious texts of many later civilizations, like the Great Flood of Noah in Christianity, reinforces the theory that categorizes such events as myths, rather than facts.
Insights from Chapter 3
#1
The Sumerian king list states that the happening of a Great Flood resulted in moving the center of the Sumerian civilization from Eridu to
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