Euphrates

Short Investigation #3 1. “Jabberwocky” Speaker: a story-teller, Tone: fear, bravery, joyful, Figurative Language: The poem uses sound and wordplay as a form of sensory imagery. In line 22, “snicker-snack” describes the sound the blade made as it was swung back and forth. In “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the hero who represents good slays the Jabberwocky who represents evil. The way the poem is spoken by the story-teller describes his enthusiam for the hero’s victorious battle with the…

In this book, author Gwendolyn Leick, an anthropologist and Assyriologist, describes the ancient history of Mesopotamia by way of ten cities: Eridu, Uruk, Shuruppak, Akkad, Ur, Nippur, Sippar, Ashur, Nineveh, and Babylon. The cities are given separate chapters which are arranged roughly chronologically over an immense time span, from the beginnings of Eridu in the fifth millennium BCE to the end of Babylonian culture in the first centuries of the Common Era. The chapter are further divided by…

imprisoning them in the underworld, mother earth (Gaia) had sex with Tartarus, which resulted in the birth of the monster Typhoon. She then released Typhoon to attack the gods. In one version of the story, Aphrodite with her son Eros hid near the river Euphrates. When she saw Typhoon coming she got scared and called upon the water nymphs to save her and her son. In response to her cry for help, the water nymphs turned her and her son into…

Most people think of blue walls in a desert with palm trees when they hear the word Babylon. Many stories of the enigmatic city of Babylon have been created and told through the years. In biblical books it talks about different architectures like the Tower of Babel or the Hanging Garden of Babylon that where created in that place. Also there is a myth that says that a curse was thrown upon the city, and the result was its destruction. Myths, legends and tales attract the attention of many…

between rivers. This is now modern day Iraq. The civilizations that make up the Mesopotamia are the Upbraid, Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian and were from 5500 BCE to 612 BCE. People farmed during this time using irrigation. The Tigris and Euphrates irrigation allowed Mesopotamians to grow barley, wheat and dates, and the abundant harvests supported increased populations. Abundant food supplies also allowed some people to perform tasks not associated with agriculture. The Sumerians…

Epic of Gilgamesh Mesopotamia is the land between Tigris River and Euphrates River where the Sumerians first settled in 3500 BCE. Polytheism is the belief of more than one god. The Sumerians worshiped more than one god such as Shamash the god of the glorious sun, Adad the god of the storm, and Ishtar the mother goddess who oversee fertility, love, the hunt, war and marriage. Cuneiform is the first written language on clay tablets and the ancestor of all Western written languages. Epic of…

Christ in Judea in the first half of the first century (under Tiberius) and popularized by his apostles through the empire and beyond.[32] The Antonine age is considered the apogee of the Empire, whose territory ranged from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates and…

Scarcity and Expansion In chapter six of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, water affects the Middle East and peripheral lands through social and economic development. This development deals with trade, agriculture, war, and customs in the region as water became essential to the success of Islamic civilization. The first hurdles of Islamic civilization were to overcome the scarcity of water in the Middle East, and afterwards ingrained ideals of water remained as a…

The first agricultural revolution occurred around 11,000 B.C. Evidence shows that it began in the Middle East, specifically in the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent includes countries such as Mesopotamia (now formally known as Iraq), Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the Nile River Basin in Egypt. There is also evidence that there were other agricultural revolutions around the world, not just in the Middle East during the same time period as the other ones. These revolutions also occurred in…

The Hammurabi Code comes from the ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia, which is considered to be one of the most valuable discoveries in human existence. The record and the substance were used to assemble the hammurabi code, it can tell a lot about how life in the empire was. In most cases, punishment was left to the gods to determine. The code was interpreted from the beginning to the ending addressed from the gods. There is a lot about the Babylonian society that can be learned through reading the…