Euphrates

The environment is known as the natural world in which we live. It is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The environment affects our society everyday. What we decide to do during the day, where we go to vacation, and ultimately where we live. Luckily for us, our society and civilization had already been established with certain rules and customs. Those people who lived in the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek culture believed that the…

Mesopotamia was a place between two rivers. Mesopotamia is often called the land between two rivers. The rivers that Mesopotamia are called the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. It is in the middle of modern Iraq. mesopotamia is known for its rich soil, which is formed by the rivers. They created the first written language and the first official religion. Three different groups of people lived here. These groups were the Sumerians, the akkadians, and the Babylonians. Sumerians were the…

played a role in the rise and rule of Sumer, until its fall in 1900 BCE. 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…

The Earliest civilization in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is bordered on its sides by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia, in fact, is Greek for “between the rivers.” The rise of Sumerian Civilization began when the first Sumerian cities began in the lower part of Mesopotamia, and Sumer became a great empire inside of Mesopotamia. The Indus River Valley Civilization is the first civilization in India. The Indus Valley is located in the…

Destructions. On May 19, 2003, President George W. Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office announcing the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The U.S invasion begin with a Shock and Awe campaign. The Haditha Dam located over the Euphrates River, northwest of…

structures. The first form of architectural work in stone was the ziggurat, a cylinder seal that the ancient Mesopotamia used to designate personal property or as a signature on documents. (Joyce, Lecture 12) Located in between the Tigris and the Euphrates an area called Sumer held the first cities of Mesopotamia. The people thrived off the location utilizing the rivers for trade and resources. Uruk could also take credit for recognizing the importance of the individual in the community as a…

Fig. 14. The viaduct bridge takes large area of cultivated land in Yang Po Village of Qian Yang County 3.6. Village infrastructure is backward, the internal function does not satisfy the modern life With the improvement of people’s living standard, residents who living the gully region of the Loess Plateau own more requirements for their life. However the original cave dwellings cannot meet their requirements due to the backward infrastructure, such as communication, water supply, power supply,…

Many people have heard of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers but what is it that causes these rivers and the land between the rivers to be of such high importance? In a world where individuals had been neighboring the land in small groups, and settlements, an essential development occurred: the Mesopotamian river basin. It was here where the world’s first complex society came to light. The rivers provided water for irrigation systems and were routes, although challenging, for transportation and…

Marcus and Sabloff both illustrate ten themes, which they believe to be the best ways of conducting successful research of ancient cities. The three themes that I found to be most relevant and useful are: establishing the stratigraphic history of the city’s center and its associated monuments, documenting the subdivisions and building blocks, and studying the roads and trade networks that linked cities together. These three aspects are vital in analyzing an ancient Mesopotamian city’s power,…

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…