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Where Did Agriculture Originate? a. Began before recorded history. A. Origins of Agriculture. a. Agriculture – Modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for sustenance or economic gain. (1) Originated when humans domesticated plants and animals. b. Crop – Any plant cultivates by humans. 1. Hunters and Gatherers. a. Lived in small groups (<50). (1) Large groups would use up more resources. b. Men hunted and women gathered. (1)…

The role of Major Rivers: The Developments of the Early Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilisations The lands of Egypt, in northeast Africa, and Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, were the homes to two of the earliest civilisations in human history, both of which developed around major rivers. Egypt created a prosperous empire along the thin strip of the Nile River which lasted for thousands of years. Mesopotamia was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and saw a number of different…

History tells the story of human kinds past. The human species evolved from hunters and gatherers to Neolithic people, who began to build villages, which turned to cities all around the world. This transition gave humans a new way of life, focusing on things like building cultures and monuments, which will stand the tests of time. Throughout history, many civilizations have sprung up with different cultures, ideas, technologies, and political systems. However, not all these civilizations…

Imru' al-Qais: Life and Poetry Imru' al-Qais was born in the Najd region of northern Arabia sometime in the early 6th century AD. He was an Arabian poet in the 6th century. He was the son of Hujr bin al-Harith who was a king that ruled over the tribes of Asad and Ghatfan. Many scholars believe that Imru’ al-Qais was born in the Asad territory and his mother was said to be Fatimah bin Rabi'ah al-Taghlibi. He is considered by many Arabic poetry scholars to be the father of Arabic poetry. His…

In this excerpt, I will be comparing two primarily documents namely the epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi. I have chosen these documents for the insight they give us about Mesopotamia civilazation;the world’s first civliztion.The epic of Gilgamesh was written around 2000B.C.E and perfectly gives us details about the society at that time. Code of Hammurabi was also written around 1754B.C.E. They are historically significant as they are the rigins of civilization that shaped the sociert and…

Essay Topic 1 Around the year 2000 B.C.E., the rulers of Babylon integrated all of the surrounding regions of Sumer to organize the First Babylonian Empire. In order to successfully unite these regions, a strong and advantageous leader known as Hammurabi was chosen as the sixth King of the Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi developed a system of collecting a culmination of the local statutes and the existing legal practice codes and combined 282 laws with scaled punishments into one single body of…

Introduction & Main Theme The historical interlude, Isaiah chapters 36-39, surrounds the military might of two parties: Hezekiah, king of Judah and the Assyria king Sennacherib. The Assyrian king sends his messengers to Hezekiah to frighten him to distance himself from God and to rely upon Assyria. Isaiah is called in to prophesize to Hezekiah. God gives him signs. Sennacherib ends up dying. Hezekiah also suffered from an illness, which he recovered in his health by God. Ironically, he…

Literary and artistic practices have long since given us an idea about the practices and culture within ancient civilizations, that we are still attempting to discover information today. Two civilizations that we have received the most knowledge about through their written text are Mesopotamia and Egypt. For the Egyptian perspective, The Instructions of Merikare, a letter addressed from a father to a son about how to be an effective pharaoh, is able to be analyzed to determine facts about…

Enkidu are most important characters in Epic of Gilgamesh. Almost all events happen around them. We see that in the ancient time ( approximately 2100 BC) Gilgamesh was king of Uruk. Uruk is the antique Sumerian city and it has been east of the Euphrates river (30 km east of Iraq). Uruk city plays a great role during the Sumerian history ( in the mid 4th millenium BC). According to the ancient sources such as tablets, lots of events were experienced there. During the reign…

In Seventeen-Fifty-Four B.C, Hammurabi’s code was established by the Babylonian King, Hammurabi. It was a handful of laws that was meant to protect the citizens of ancient Mesopotamia, now today, Iraq. Mesopotamia was also known as the Fertile Crescent, which was the region in Middle East. It was given that name because of its multiple advantages, that made Mesopotamia expand with agriculture, writing, and trades. The cultural components that make up most of the enforced laws are, society,…