With the emergence of Sumerian city-states, social organization advanced astonishingly forward into the realm of structured communal living that would pave the way for the birth of writing. ... Religion was especially impacted by the development of literature, as epic poems and myths, such as Atrahasis began to be contrived, which sought to provide their readers with explanations of the unexplainable, establish moral guidelines to be meticulously followed and illustrate the human race's place in the universe among a torrent of fuming gods. ... A Mesopotamian reading this would have take...

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