culture

While reading Making Nature Sacred we began to discuss what culture was and one conclusion we made was that culture and nature affected each other. I think this is very interesting especially in regards to nature affecting culture. In Hebrew Bible class the other day we were studying the Assyrians and Prof. Strehle pointed out that their land was not very fertile and that was the reason why they became a robber state. This effect of the land grew not only into them being a robber state but they actually became a state of great violence. The violence was not only in their actions but it seeped into their art too. Often their art consisted of vile paintings of remains of people and of violence. All of this violence, all because they were a people who couldn’t grow their own food due to their environment.