Enheduana of Sumer

Enheduana was the worlds first author almost 4,300 years ago. She was also known as a poet.   her works weren't published as paperback.  they were slabs of clay, which was still soft, and a stylus was used to write into it.As Enheduana and her brother grew older, her father expected her brothers to be kings and be the empirere.


Questions:
1..What did books look like during the time that Enheduana was writing? How were these books written?
She wrote books but using wet clay and a object called styblus.


2. Where did Enheduana and her family live? What did her father do?
Her father was the king and they lived in city-state of Akkad.

3. What was Enheduana's job? List three of her duties. How did she lose her job?

Her job was high prisetess.and She lost her job after her nephew took the throne

4.The author says that Enheduana's poems were so popular that they were like bestsellers today. What evidence does she use to support this claim?

Telling us that people still talk about her today even though she wrote in 2300 B.c.

5. Enheduana's writings are hymns of praise, but they also tell us about the times she lived in. Describe one "current event" that Enheduana wrote about.

Enheduana wrote about about her father. She wrote that at one point in time the city-states that Sargon had taken united in revolt against and also that they tried to capture Akkad.

Catalhoyuk

Catalhoyuk is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date. The meaning of Catal is fork on the Turkish language .was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.Catalhoyuk is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya. Konya is a city near to the captial of Turkey, Ankara. It's approximately 140 kilometers, which is equal to 87 miles. The entire settlement of Catalhoyuk was composed of domestic buildings. The site has no obvious public buildings. While some of the larger buildings contain rather ornate wall murals, the purpose of such rooms remains unclear. It also has something on top of it that helps it protect from to sun, like a shield, but the sides of it are open.Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people that inhabited the site.The Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk was first discovered in the late 1950s and excavated by James Mellaart between 1961 and 1965. The site rapidly became famous internationally due to the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintin gs and other art that was uncovered inside the houses.