... Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh ruled the Mesopotamian city of Uruk around 2000 BC. Gilgamesh was part human and part god. The epic was composed around 2000 BC and tells the story of the journeys of Gilgamesh. According to the epic of Gilgamesh there was a great flood. The flood took place because the people multiplied, the world bellowed widely and the gods were upset by ... the clamour. Mankind became intolerable to the gods so they decided to exterminate them. Warrior Enlil caused the great flood. The account of the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the great flood described in Genesis has som...

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Pride in The City In The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Sinlequeunninni, the ancient Mesopotamians valued their cities. The first cities were built by the Mesopotamians, in the land between the two rivers and were centered around the ... ...

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