Word: mesopotamians
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...example, the code of the Mesopotamian city of Eshnunna in the early second millennium B.C., developed a century before the more famous code of Hammurabi, left no doubt what would happen if you punched a man in the face: a fine of 10 shekels of silver (a bargain compared with the levy for biting off his nose, which would cost 60). As long as people could go about their business without fear of getting their noses bitten off, the social brain could productively throb...
From these studies, Damasio, who is chairman of the University of Iowa's neurology department, concludes that consciousness is a layered edifice, like some Mayan pyramid or Mesopotamian ziggurat. It is based on an inchoate feeling of self that arises from the brain's detailed "diagram" of the body. Damasio says this diagram, which is continuously revised by the senses, can be thought of as the "protoself"; it props up the rest of the structure...
...while your projected grade decreases. The course's consumer base is suspiciously small, so before pursuing this niche market, it is essential to study the competition." The consultants then embarked on a fact-finding mission to interview the guy downstairs, a near Eastern languages student writing his thesis on Mesopotamian divorce contracts. When the student gave the class rave reviews, citing its absorbing material, CSMG advised that I avoid the class...
...global growth. Pilate chortled again and made several more rude comments concerning my personal appearance. After consulting with a rival consultant from the same company, I decided to terminate the client-consultant relationship. Pilate, glad to wash his hands of it, went downstairs to consult my neighbor on Mesopotamian divorce contracts...
...baby in the little ark woven of reeds is a favorite among some scholars who believe Moses was a creation of the ancient Hebrews' binding together their own national epic out of the tales of neighbors. They point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden in the Nile delta...