The World Effects from Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is the earliest text in existence, being over 3,500 years old, it gives insight into that time period and how people of that time thought and lived. Those cultural values of ancient Mesopotamia helped in the development of the basic ideas of both Christianity and Judaism. In knowing this, one can infer how important the story and legend of Gilgamesh is and was to the people of that time and …
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…very wild and full of dangerous things. And just how Enkidu was tamed by a women, society was tamed by time. In conclusion, Gilgamesh helped shape the society in which we live today in many different ways, from the morals that his epic bestilled upon us to the knowledge has been passed to down to us from his epic. So, without The Epic of Gilgamesh, today's humanity and understanding of history would be very different.