Euphrates

The Euphrates River was significant to the Middle East. The Euphrates River provided the Romans with an abundance of resources that were sent to several provinces to keep peace with the Barbarians. Over time the resources began to dwindle down and the Barbarian attacks were going to soon…

The Journeys of Gilgamesh and Odysseus The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey are long narrative poems that portray hardship, love, and war. Along their journeys, they experience new things and learn lessons that improve them as a human being. The stories include long journeys, interactions with the gods, love for their family, and heroes that are victorious in battle. However, the two epic’s cultural backgrounds, motives, and characters are different. Both stories provide knowledge about the…

One of Mesopotamia’s Greatest Inventions; Inscription The civilization of Mesopotamia differed from others in several ways. Mesopotamia grew along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where modern day Iraq is placed. They hold their monumental title because they taught themselves how to survive and make their lives easier. One of their most tremendous accomplishments consisted of achieving the ability of agriculture. This kept them alive but was not the only thing that made them who they are known…

God appears in a vision to Abram as a sign of how powerful and omnipresent he is. God appearing through a vision shows he is always there and has the power to be heard and make covenants no matter the form he shows up in. The first words God spoke was, “Do not be afraid” (1). God proclaims these words because in Genesis Three, Adam tells God he hid in the garden because he was afraid. God wants Abram to know that there is no reason to fear him since Abram has obeyed him. After God proclaims to…

By applying the geographical concepts of ancient art, geography is defined as the study of physical features of earth’s atmosphere, which includes natural resources, countries, continents, land use, oceans, rivers, and other, whether it is physical, human, or environmental. According to the history of art, the major parts of geography mainly consists in civilizations, such as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The art history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt has been one of the huge concepts…

The Babylonian Chronicles is a tablet made of baked clay and records events from 605-594BC. The tablet was written in the 6th century BC, is a little over three inches in height and was written in the Akkadian language using cuneiform script. The Babylonian Chronicles were written from the reign of Nabopolassar up to the Parthian Period by Babylonian astronomers and record major events in Babylonian history and events mentioned in the Bible. It was excavated by Robert Koldeway in the late 1800s…

talked about Cities and States, Kingdom, and Empire in mostly. So, I’m going to review about what I’ve learned from this video. In early Mesopotamia cities and states engaged in a form of socialism. Mesopotamia located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but this area wasn’t good. They had nature unpredictable; they always got a lot of nature disasters such as flood and horrible drought.…

lowlands around these rivers gave settlers access to farmable land and other basic needs for a growing society which made them prime locations for settlements. For example the ancient Egyptians had the Nile while the Mesopotamians had the Tigris and Euphrates, the Chinese also settled around the yellow river and the Indians around the Indus. This shows the basic human need for water and the advantages that it gave to all developing civilizations and empires that had access to it.…

infected spread the disease, rapidly spreading across Europe. The Mongols also burned thousands of Chinese and Middle Eastern books containing records of life and history in the pre-Mongol Era. It was said that so many books were thrown into the Euphrates River in Syria…

In early Mesopotamia and Egypt, religion played a huge part in the people’s life. In Mesopotamia, the city-states were ruled by religion and in Egypt, the empire was dictated by what the gods said and wanted them to do. Both Ancient Civilizations were built on the principles of religion. The people of Mesopotamia and Egypt believed in multiple gods and both perceived them as human like, or with animalistic features. While Mesopotamians feared their gods and believed that their afterlife was…