Crescent City

ensured that farmers had enough food and nutrients to grow an adequate amount of food. Mesopotamia was also another thriving civilization. The word Mesopotamia means “between two rivers”, and these two rivers are Euphrates and Tigris. The Fertile Crescent, was indeed the best area to start a civilization, because of the fertile land. This is one of the reasons why Mesopotamia was considered a place of awe. The area had enough food, so the people used their energy to build amazing structures,…

group of people who came to Mesopotamia, which is now modern day Iraq, and settled. These people were known as the Sumerians. After lots of hard work in Mesopotamia the Sumerians started the growth of a city state. “While the area between the Tigris and Euphrates became known as the Fertile Crescent for its high agricultural productivity, high temperatures, and unpredictable floods the Sumerians were constantly challenged”(Spodek,47). Since floods occurred occasionally, the Sumerians had to…

teaches people about the many different characteristics of civilizations in Ancient Mesopotamia. The major characteristics include cities, religion, writing, government, social structure, and art. Each of these characteristics were demonstrated through the game. These characteristics are what make up a civilization. Ancient Mesopotamia was located within the Fertile crescent, in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Civilizations from Ancient Mesopotamia invented many different things. For…

River Valley Civilizations Tigris and Euphrates River Valley Civilization Mesopotamia was an ancient valley located in the eastern Mediterranean; this means “between two rivers” in Greek. This is where all modern societies came from, and they had a sophisticated way of doing things. Mesopotamia is modern day Iraq, and it was located between two rivers: Tigris and Euphrates. Mesopotamia lacked an adequate supply of water, so these rivers gave provided water for them. The rivers played a great…

culture still constructed these places of worship for their deities. This demonstrates how important the notion of a religion was to the culture. The White Temple and ziggurat of Uruk(Kleiner Fig 2-2) is forty feet above ground level, looking over the city center. The structure had several chambers, and waiting rooms where priests would wait for the gods’ to descend from the heavens. The stairway that leads up to the temple, but does not end at the front of the temple instead changing direction…

From the reign of King Gilgamesh, to the rise and fall of the Egyptian empire, and the ancient Aegean civilizations, there have been an abundance of artifacts and structures discovered that have been uniquely influenced by the great quantity of differences between the many cultures and leaders, whom have altered the numerous techniques that continued to influence later civilizations. Ancient architecture was often created for places of worship for religious idols; however, there have been many…

population of 18,000 per city, the Olmecs had from 20,000 to 50,000 people that lived in one city. Apparently the hemorrhagic fever, Cocoliztli, did not make much of a dent in the Mesoamerican civilization. Surprisingly, both civilizations did not move as often as we do. As a result, they flourished…

Sumer is known as one of the first recorded civilizations in human history. It was established in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is known today as modern day Iraq. Sumer was nestled in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent. This stretch of land was completely isolated, with dry desert sands surrounding it in all directions. The date when this civilization was established is still unknown, and secular sources believe that it was between 6000-4000 BC. Many Christians…

Sumer was located in Mesopotamia, which was in modern day Iraq. Mesopotamia, which in Greek means ‘between two rivers’, was a river valley that fell in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia was located in an area called the Fertile Crescent, which got its name from the fertile soil that was in that area due…

This is because the story of the flood starts with the question of whether the reader knows the city Shurrupak that stands on the banks of River Euphrates (Sandars). The question leaves one to anticipate an answer either immediately or later in the story. It also acts as a form of capturing the reader’s attention making them keen on finding out the relationship between the city, the river and probably its inhabitants. The translation of the same account of the floods by Benjamin Foster…