Mesopotamians with Their Language and Attempts to Civilize

It’s amazing how advanced the Mesopotamian people were. They were advancing their own forms of technologies without even realizing it. The fact that technologies used for communication started with pictures and cave paintings into a written language. A language was a development that makes a community whole because by having a universal language it allows the people of that community to relay messages and conduct conversations amongst one another. As we can see through the story of Gilgamesh, the Mesopotamian people created stories about their own advancements as human beings. The Mesopotamians created their own form of a language that allowed historians of today to unravel some secrets about the lifestyle a Mesopotamian. Language is a large advancement for human beings and it coincides with the concept of civilizing people. The Mesopotamians were a group of people who made it possible to see that there was an understanding in the ways to civilize a “creature” into a human being. However, that didn’t mean that they were viewing the gender roles in an egalitarian point of view anymore. Women could be known as civilized but they were also in a sense weaker than the male. The egalitarian points of view in communities didn’t exist because they adapted to the ideas of having a hierarchy. In doing so, they segregated the ones who had power and wealth from those who didn’t have power and wealth. This also included the gender segregation within the family units created throughout the community because males had specific roles that gave them the provider title while the women held a caretaker title. As we can see, this concept still exists at times in this day and age, but now we try our hardest to create an equal role in society amongst the males and females.