Euphrates

AN ANALYSIS ON MILITARY AND LAND REFORM IN THE 19TH CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE The happenings of the 19th century were generated an important milestone in terms of economic, social and political realms and the Ottoman Empire was not irresponsive to the groundbreaking new order that originates in the Western Europe. Two centuries ago, the world experienced industrial revolution, which had irreversible effects, and since then, the economic growth rates and GDP per capita increased dramatically in…

Due to Mesopotamia being the land between the Tigris and Euphrates River, it is clear to see why their gods are associated with the forces of nature. The two rivers created a fertile crescent that conquered the western end of Asia. The location is rich in soil and supported agricultural development to support the…

Appearing in late 1800AD, Panbabylonism was developed by several European scholars and historians such as Friedrich Delitzsch, Fritz Hommel, Eduard Stucken, Hugo Winckler, Peter Jensen, Felix Peiser, Heinrich Zimmern, Alfred Jeremias and Ferdinand Bork that many of the stories from the Old Testament specifically the Book of Genesis originated from the religion, mythology and history of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians who lived in the Mesopotamia Valley from 5500BC to 220AD.…

5 Hunter Savage 7th HR 5/3/17 Mark Antony Early Career Born in Rome in 83 B.C., Mark Antony was born into a famous household. Mark Antony’s father and grandfather were well-known; his father for commanding the fight against the pirates in the Mediterranean, and his grandfather for being an astonishing public speaker. Julia, Antony’s mother was a cousin to Julius Caesar (“Antony Biography”). After his young ages, Antony was sent east as an officer in the cavalry. As officer, he won strategic…

Iraq’s triangle of death, located in the southern region of Baghdad and bordering the Euphrates River is the area where major combat activity and sectarian violence was introduced from late 2004 through fall 2007. This is the area in which the soldiers of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1-502dn Infantry Battalion of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division operated. The 502 was posted near the triangle of death, losing a soldier a week. Their severely undermanned operation sustained constant casualties in…

Creating Humans From Dust What if scientists told the world that evolution may not be true? What if they showed the world an alternative view to human history? For many years the dominant consensus on how humans came to be has been through the evolution theory. Many scientists, and people around the world view the evolution theory to be correct, sometimes without question. However, a new chapter in human history has opened up and it’s called Forbidden Archaeology. Forbidden Archaeology has…

World War I & Poetry Arising during the 1920’s, a time period where strong animosity ran deep between the colored and the Caucasian, Langston Hughes (who is my favorite poet of all time) shined a luminous spotlight on the African American community through his writing in a way that no other writer during his time was able to match. Amongst other emerging black writers, Hughes led the parade of the Harlem Renaissance where a faucet of culture trickled in self expression through music, art, and…

Dyana Postelle Many times the best way to understand civilizations is in reference to another civilization or civilizations in the same time period, or by comparing advancements in language, size, and trade, or by comparing city-state and territorial-state perameters. In this essay I will discuss the Indus Valley Civilizations, and more specifically Mohenjo-daro with regards to its similarities and differences to Mesopotamian, and Egyptian civilizations, and its status as a city-sate or…

The Hebrew Bible presents Balaam as a foreign seer who is capable of bestowing blessings and curses. In the passage of interest, the Moabite King Balak feared the approach of the Israelites and decided to contract Balaam to curse the Israelites. Yet Balaam does the bidding of God and refuses to curse the Israelites for Balak, instead blessing the Israelites through a series of poems. However, there are also inscriptions discovered in a sanctuary dedicated to the babylonian divine assembly that…

The only way for a person to ever achieve their dreams is to chase them, no matter how unrealistic they may be. Langston Hughes asks of a dream deferred, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” What happens when a person tries to ignore their dreams? Hughes implies that a dream that one ignores will fester inside them,…