Tue., 9/17

Field Notes No. 10 due tomorrow (Wednesday).

HW:

Read all of the following from Ch. 16: p. 118, ¶ 3 – 4 p. 119, ¶ 5 p. 121, ¶ 1 (from “The Sumerians called the Gutians snakes…”) p. 121, ¶ 2, 4, 5 p. 122, ¶ 2 – 4 p. 123, ¶ 1, 3, 4, 6 p. 124 – p. 125 (all paragraphs)

Exercise 11A 

Write the following verbatim: Naram-Sin the Great – Naram-Sin the Great was the grandson of Sargon. Naram-Sin spread the Akkadian empire to its greatest extent, but also faced the invasion of Gutian barbarians. Barbarian – A barbarian is someone from outside of a kingdom bent on destroying that kingdom. Etymology: from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange; ignorant," from P.I.E. root barbar, echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners.