Euphrates

Under Augustus’ reign, the borders of the empire were stretched to the Rhine and the Danube on the north, to the Atlantic Ocean on the west, to the desert of Africa on the south, and nearly to the Euphrates on the east. The only two frontier nations that threatened to disrupt the efficiency of Rome were the Parthians and the Germans. The Parthians still held the standards lost by Crassus, a great source of shame to the Roman people. However, using diplomatic channels, he was able to reclaim the…

Napata to as far north as Palestine during the New Kingdom. Egypt was also able to push back the Nubians and expand into their soil during the age of the New Kingdom. Ancient Mesopotamians on the other hand only had the land around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers whilst under Sumerian rule. This isn’t even near the amount of land that the Egyptians were controlling during the New Kingdom, but it also must be taken into account that Mesopotamia expanded later under other…

Crescent” or Mesopotamia, in what is now modern day Iraq. From a geographic standpoint, this a perfectly logical area for the Agricultural Revolution to begin, because of the fertile soil the region offers. This valley was also between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, therefore irrigation systems could be set up with ease. The document from The Agricultural Systems of the World by D. B. Grigg summarizes how different cultures around the world utilized agriculture, and changes in agriculture that…

government, social structure, and art. Each of these characteristics were demonstrated through the game. These characteristics are what make up a civilization. Ancient Mesopotamia was located within the Fertile crescent, in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Civilizations from Ancient Mesopotamia invented many different things. For example, the Sumerian civilization created Ziggurats. Ziggurats were pyramids with temples at the top for priests and kings to worship the gods. The Babylonian…

In this video a team attempts to rebuild the flood boat of Noah, utilizing inscriptions from ancient clay tablets. From the book of genius of the bible, God asked Noah to build a boat. It is stated that this was a platform for ultimate disasters. But they questioned where did the idea come from, Based on antique tablet, far older than the bible it retailing a story far different than that of Noah’s. The idea is that of a basket boat, to recreate this vessel they travelled to marsh lands of…

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…

A new discovery was released in 2016, when a bulldozer operator in northwestern Oklahoma uncovered a Columbian Mammoth skull. Mammoths lived during the Paleolithic Era beginning 2.6 million years ago until roughly 10,000 YBP. This time period was also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, which was later followed by the current stage we live in today, the Holocene Epoch. According to the sixth threshold, 200,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by neanderthals, (early homo sapiens), which were used as…

The Epic Of Gilgamesh is the first known writing. Humans early civilization was Mesopotamia ("between the rivers"), a collection of city-states in and around the Tigris and Euphrates fertile river valley (modern Iraq). The very first Mesopotamian empire was Sumer (2200 B.C.E) and the first city Uruk. Gilgamesh is the greatest surviving epic poem (long narrative poem) of Mesopotamian literature. The author is unknown because the story was passed on orally for generations before it was "fixed" and…

Persia fighting on the coastline and then ultimately landing in Gordium finding the Gordian Knot. Later he moved into Syria. While in Syria, he traveled into Tyre. Finally he led his army into the Persian Empire crushing the Persians crossing the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. He was more than a warlord or conqueror though; he also spread Greek civilization to huge areas of the ancient world and in turn exposed Greece to the knowledge of the conquered lands, giving a huge boost to scholars in…

Langston Hughes is considered to be one of the quintessential voices of the 1920s and ‘30s Harlem Renaissance movement. Utilizing a wide range of motifs and subject matters, Hughes became a voice for working class Black Americans who were excluded from mainstream American society. In this paper I will attempt to analyze Hughes’ first published poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. Written when he was only seventeen, the poem helped establish his reputation among African American writers, and…