Euphrates

According to Zubaida (2003), the Middle East is situated in parts of Western Asia spreading from the eastern Mediterranean coastline of Turkey and Syria, through the leave to Iraq and Arabia, and toward the East through Iran to the Caspian, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea. Into Africa, it incorporates Egypt, and, by a few records, Arab North Africa. This zone involves mountains, deserts, rich fields watered by amazing streams, and seacoasts. Climatically, the Middle East ranges from the…

Geography plays a crucial role in molding the economic livelihoods, cultural practices and daily way of life. Availability of natural resources, topology, and climatic conditions in a region can greatly affect the way of life of people in an area. It is important to note that architecture and most importantly settlements in a region are greatly depended on geography. Many ancient cultures including but not limited to Egypt, China and Mesopotamia are a perfect examples of how physical geography…

in Egypt protected its inhabitants. As well as, it unified a 750 length that gave the pharaoh an undefeatable attitude, which might explain why they did not feel the need to record their laws. Whereas, Mesopotamia had two rivers, Tigris and the Euphrates, which were shorter and unstable. Constant attacks led to the quick changes in their cultures that adapted to their previous customs, which could have led to the creation of Hammurabi’s Code to preserve the laws of the city-states…

Mesopotamians were no strangers to the movement of goods across great land distances, but they also developed great port cities. Ur was one of the Mesopotamian cities that not only grew, but thrived, at its strategic location where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers enter the Persian Gulf. Located in such a prime location, Ur became a massive epicenter for commerce in the ancient times and was engaged in trade routes as far away as India (Mark). The long-distance trade, achieved through the…

Nile River is the longest river in the world. Their steady seasons made agriculture extremely easy and the Greek Historian Herodotus even referred to Egypt as “the gift of the Nile” . The first known Mesopotamian civilizations revolved around the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers around 3000 B.C.E. These people developed stone tools to assist in agriculture and thus brought about a new technological age, the Neolithic or “neio stone age” . All aspects of their life revolved around things directly or…

Time has always been a huge part of human life. Time impacted people’s lives starting centuries ago. It would determine at what time their day should start and the time their day should end. Different areas of the world trying to find different method of how people just determine how time should be. Time is apart of their everyday life and many people like the Mayans, also people who used ancient calendars, and people who would refer to the Gregorian calendar. In the article “Ancient Calendars…

Many of the creative works by African Americans promoted freedom through cultural unity. “All God’s Chillen Had Wings” takes place on an island ruled by a cruel cotton-plantation owner. The master of the plantation overworks the African slaves to death and then quickly replaces them with more African slaves. The power dynamic changes when a young female slave, who just gave birth, is overworked almost to the point of death; as a result, she turns to the eldest slave there (an old man at…

In Saudi Arabia during the classical period Mesopotamia was taken over by the Persians around 500BC (7, 1). The first leader of Persia was Cyrus. He allowed the people he conquered, to keep their religions and cultures. Cyrus was succeeded by his son Cambyses. After Cambyses Darius became the leader. Darius said he was told by god that he was meant to rule (1, 160-161). Darius wanted to make a set of laws that created uniform throughout the empire. After Darius, his son Xerxes became the new…

The political difference between the universal power of the Egyptian pharaohs and the Mesopotamian emperors served as the most significant factor that influenced the varying degrees of stability of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian society brought about by the type of ruler, along with each civilization’s religion, economics, and social structure. Mesopotamian society lacking the presence of the pharaoh led to the beliefs in violent gods who were feared instead of revered as they were in Egypt.…

government or monarchy, kings and rulers were highly respected people, so there must have been a monarchy. Farming Sumer was not in the greatest area for farming, but they still could farm due to techniques. They used the Tigris and Euphrates River’s flood season to their advantage. Once it flooded, they used dams and levees to hold water. After the water was held, they irrigated it throughout the farms of the city-state. They also used natural waterways including tributaries of the…