From The Epic of Gilgamesh

The reading was different than what we usually read. I found it pretty funny, yet a little sexist. Sexist because how they use Shamhat (a woman) to capture Enkidu's attention and keep him from his ways. Sadly Shamhat cannot do much but just go along with what Enkidu wants to do for the next couple of days. Towards the end of the reading it says "He put on some clothing and became like a warrior" he needed to have intercourse with the harlot in order to go to the Holy Temple and be taught all of these "warrior" like things. Basically, the woman had to use her body to make him change. It made me think of teenage boys' when they are going through puberty and they are becoming curious of a teenage girls' body. How at that age they are seen as "cool" if they have any sexual activity with girls and in their mind they are now "men" and can't act like little boys any longer. It is crazy to believe what if this is really how they thought back then as well.

Chapt. 1; Part 1.

As in my previous blog I realized I like to question the reading, many questions come to mind, and also many doubts. In the first section it says that the homo sapiens first emerged in Africa; however, I do not believe this because when Columbus said he had discovered the New World there were already people here in the Americas. So in reality he did not discover the New World, he had discovered that there were other people living in this place. I believe homo sapiens were all over and did not only start in Africa.
The new technology that the homo sapiens had created is what really surprises me. How they decided to make spear throwers and how maybe that is how the bow and arrow were invented. These are the sort of things that catch my attention from history the inventions they make. The art they created, the colors they used, what I'd like to know is how they made these colors. They are the ones who basically invented the color scheme if you really think about it.