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1. What type of source document are both of these stories? Which is older? How do you know? I think the first one involves noahs ark and how he had to build it. The second one involves disasters back then that the gods plagued upon people for there amusement. I think the first one is older because Naohs ark is such an old story and everyone knows it as how man kind came to be.

2. Summarize the book of Genesis version of the flood. (5-6 sentences) The god or gods what ever you believe in seeing there daughters of men were to become wives and it was fair. He also believes in the wives making children. God is saying a son and a wife and every living flesh, two of any sort, male or female should enter the ark. Noah is in charge of all this because god command him to do it. The flood would come in seven days and he had that time to do it. so he hustled up two of every animal on his boat and was ready for the flood.

3. Summarize the Epic of Gilgamesh version of the flood. (5-6 sentences) A lot of the gods sat up on there perch and watched people. They found what they saw on earth to be very amusing. Some gods agreed to exterminate mankind. They sent down a sacrifise to see if he could build a boat before they sent the flood and he did. Him and his wife were the only ones to servive it. Enlil the greatest of the gods could not believe it. He made the sacrifies neel before him and blessed them

4. In what ways are both of these stories the same? they both involve one man trying to save mankind by building a boat to save everyone

5. In what ways are both of these stories different? The first one god commands him to take only two of everything to make a new world after the flood. The second one he builds the boat and no one believes him so they all die. 6. Why do you think that both of these stories are so similar? Because people have made these story's the same but they just heard it in different ways. Mab'ye a different country like greece came up with the one with the gods looking down on them and the bible had Noahs in it

7. In your opinion are these stories true? Why or why not? well my opinion is undecided because i don't really know if i believe in god at the moment but i do believe in a higher power. so i really don't think these story's are true because no one would know if they were true because it was so long ago and no is that old.