Assyria

During the Stone Age, many different cities and struggled and starved because of one thing. Which is lack of water and other natural resources. So you can understand why the Mesopotamia and the Nile River was significant. It helped the environment as well as the people there. Water was now available anytime it was needed, farming and agriculture also expanded, making it easy make crops for families. Also civilizations came to past with the rise of cities, therefore beginning the New Stone Age.…

The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Present Day ISIS: History Appears to Repeat Itself The Neo-Assyrian Empire lasted from 911 to 612 B.C.E., while ISIS is still in power today. Though these two Semitic governments are far apart in regards to time, they are eerily similar in their actions, strategies, and the makeup of their civilization. Northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey was where the Assyrian Empire encompassed, and ISIS is based in the Islamic state of Iraq and Greater Syria, with the largest…

The Babylonian Empire is a very economic and cultural empire, and is located by the Tigris-Euphrates River(McShane). The Babylonian Empire uses writing systems to keep records, which is how historians learn about Babylon(Nardo 37). Babylon was first apart of the Tigris-Euphrates plains until the Babylonians replaced Sumerians and became the largest city in Mesopotamia(Nardo 33). Babylon and other empires have been profoundly impacted by different rulers and time periods such as Hammurabi,…

Slaves in ancient Mesopotamia helped improve the empires. Slaves were multiplied and more and more civilians became slaves and are benefiting the growth of the empires. Mesopotamians depended on slaves to build their empires. Slavery played an important role of the development in the empires. During ancient Mesopotamia, slaves had to go through a lot of tough measures to make their empire great. For example, laws towards slaves were harsh especially ones that tried to escape. Slaves were…

Euphrates, Tigris and Arabic Since the beginning of the history the Near East region has been a regenerating birthplace for many of ancient civilizations, religions, and antiquity. In the last three centuries, our understating of the ancient Mesopotamian, Egypt, Levant, Persia and Asia minor has progressed quickly due to a stream of new publications in regards languages and civilizational development. With this rich past, there are many important points in the chronological timeline that play a…

Civilizations everywhere have their own unique quirks, but it is what they contribute to society that leaves a lasting impression. Ancient river valley civilizations are both similar and different compared to their neighboring civilizations. One civilization, though, made the most lasting impact of them all. The three societies that stood out the most were the the Nubians/Kushites, the Akkadians, and the Babylonians. Geography played a major role in how the individuals of that particular…

From the development of agrarian society, to the origins of democracy, Chapter 2 of Patterns of World History Volume One spans a crucial era in the development of large humans civilizations or empires. First, The“Fertile Crescent” between the Tigris and Euphrates river allowed for increased agricultural success, paving the way for agrarian society. Furthermore, Mesopotamian and Egyptian government commenced with similar political structure but soon after developed into two distinct empires. The…

Family Systems Families are systems that have created their own strategies on how they deal with tasks on a daily bases. They are the people who “have shared a sense of history, share emotional ties to one another, and devise strategies for meeting the needs of individual family members and the group as a whole” (Anderson and Sabatelli 2010:6). A family’s historical background, ethnicity, culture and religion can all contribute to its uniqueness from other families. These attributes also have…

In Southwest Asia, there is a large band of fertile land called the Fertile Crescent. It curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Within the Fertile Crescent are two rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates. Both these rivers begin in present day Turkey and flow south through Iraq to the Persian Gulf. The land between these two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which in Greek literally means “between the rivers.” The conditions in this land helped bring about the rise of the world’s first…

The Assyrian kings, who governed many societies and realms, were leaders of inflexible publicity to enhance their lands, which they conveyed through drawings and in inscribing. The kings custom-built relief sculptures that praise the authority and leaders. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in section 401, there lies the Assyrian Reliefs, which reconstructs the palace rooms of Ashuranasirpal II at Nimrud. Initially radiantly dyed, they once beautified the vast palace of the great Assyrian kings…