Mesopotamian Civilization Analysis

The civilization Mesopotamia lies between lies between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, of West Asia. The weather there is sometimes hot and dusty, like a desert, but other times, there would massive floods taking over the area. Organizations such as the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, had ways of living to control the environment they were in. The Sumerians, out of all groups, were the most successful. Of 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, they built various city-states. They also showed development and improvement in agriculture, engineering, and technology than the farming villages of the neolithic era. Another achievement of the Sumerians was writing. A lot of clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform, wedge shaped, were found …show more content…
A pharaoh is like a god or a king, a ruler in ancient Egypt. June to October is the annual flood stage of the Egyptian civilization. The pharaoh job is to hire a large amount of skilled labor force to build monuments or flood control installations. He would hire masons and stonecutters, sculptors, carpenters, and painters. He would also hire construction managers, surveyors, draftmens, scribes, and other to do the job. The pharaoh also had a religious and civic duty. Just like the Sumer, Egyptian religion was a "thoroughgoing polytheism", which means belief in many gods. Another thing I found interesting was when it talked about the development of the pyramids, The largest pyramid of the Great Pyramids is that of Khufu, built at Giza. The pyramid dates from about 2600 B.C.E, it was 460 feet high and 755 feet on each side. This pyramid was made from about 2.3 million stone blocks averaging 2.5 ton each. That 's one big …show more content…
Darius I became King in 522, and reigned the longest. He enlarged the empire to the Indus River in the east, the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and Upper Egypt in the south. In the west, he seized a foothold in Europe. Darius most significant contribution was royal inscriptions, which was written in three different languages: Persian, Elamitic, and Babylonian. Persia produced little literature, except for the Avesta, the collected sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism. They showed originality in religion. Iranian religion, Indo-European polytheism, whose chief officials were magi, is what the Persians went by. But, later on, a reformer named Zoroaster changed the religion to Zoroastrianism. It taught men and women were expected to avoid sin and abide by divine laws. The Persian Empire matched its West Asian