How did the development and use of religion compare in the four river valleys?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Rulers seen as divine
1. Egyptians believed that gods could reside in their pharaohs
2. Mesopotamia put the divine in its laws rather than rulers
3. kings in China were mediators with the gods, performing sacrifices, preparing for and conducting oracle readings, breaking the soil, praying for rain, founding towns
4. Harappan rule as god-centered governments run by priests
B. Belief in the afterlife
1. Egyptian soul is weighed on a scale that looks at sins such as sacrilege, sexual perversion, and the abuse of power against the weak and good deeds such as obedience to human laws and divine will, acts of mercy, offerings to the gods and the spirits of ancestors, bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked
C. Access to future information and advice
1. oracles provided predictions based on the will of the gods in the livers of sacrificed sheep, in the drift of incense, and, above all, in the movements of heavenly bodies in Mesopotamia
2. China used oracles, diviners and scribes to tell the lives and duties of the King and religion as a basis for expansion "Mandate of Heaven"
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