Euphrates

The Babylonian Empire is a very economic and cultural empire, and is located by the Tigris-Euphrates River(McShane). The Babylonian Empire uses writing systems to keep records, which is how historians learn about Babylon(Nardo 37). Babylon was first apart of the Tigris-Euphrates plains until the Babylonians replaced Sumerians and became the largest city in Mesopotamia(Nardo 33). Babylon and other empires have been profoundly impacted by different rulers and time periods such as Hammurabi,…

Hammurabi’s father. So Hammurabi began his reign by centralizing and streamlining his administration, continuing his father’s building programs and enlarging and heightening the walls of the city. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. He extended Babylon's control throughout Mesopotamia…

From the ancient stories of the past, to new architecture being found, to the information historians find every day; ancient history continues to be the building blocks for the modern world. Ancient history shows evidence of how civilizations formed, how communities were built based from geography, and how languages developed when building a functional society. During the different ages of ancient times, some ancient civilizations had similarities while still possessing many different…

cultures spread and dispersed. With this geographical exposure also came no physical protection from conquerors. Ancient Mesopotamia encountered many rulers, also bringing other cultures and beliefs with them. The unpredictable flooding of the the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers (the main source of water for crops) in Mesopotamia among other things lead the people to develop beliefs that wrathful gods ruled over them, leading them to worship them strictly. This devotion lead to the building of large…

In Southwest Asia, there is a large band of fertile land called the Fertile Crescent. It curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Within the Fertile Crescent are two rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates. Both these rivers begin in present day Turkey and flow south through Iraq to the Persian Gulf. The land between these two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which in Greek literally means “between the rivers.” The conditions in this land helped bring about the rise of the world’s first…

world’s legendary civilization that rose from small beginnings into major superpower to only vanish in the course of time. Each of the civilization share a common characteristic of a river valley civilization with the Mesopotamians occupying the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and Egypt transpired from the nile river. Both served important roles in history as major agricultural centers in early ancient with the knowledge of complex irrigation systems and the usage of the rich nutrient soil to…

It’s hard to imagine living in today’s world with no laws, governments, or religions. The reason for that is because they have always just been there since the time we were born, since the time our grandparents and their grandparents were born. In this paper I’m going to talk about where, why, and how all these things came to be a part of our everyday life. Around 400,000-11,000 B.C.E, which is known as the Paleolithic period, Life was less complicated. The only thing that mattered was finding…

According to our book “The Tigris-Euphrates River valley is the earliest place where a complex society appeared, this been “Mesopotamia”, in the area of what is now Iraq and Eastern Syria” (Dunn and Mitchell, 58-59). Egypt developed around the Nile River, the dried climate of northern…

Norte Chico and Sumer are two ancient civilizations which started in 3500 BCE. Norte Chico was located in present day Peru and was close to the water. It was also surrounded by mountains. Sumer was a collection of city states in Ancient Mesopotamia, located in present day Iraq whose city states were known for being at constant war. Norte Chico and Sumer had similar methods of trading, but they differed in regards to their interactions with surrounding people as well as their job specialization.…

Bazaar The Bazaar, which were numerious, were mostly formed of long, straight, and tolerably wide avenues. The largest and best bazaar had an air of meanness about it that was not common on the largest bazaar of Turkey. It was long, wide, and lofty and well filled with dealers and wares of all sorts. Several of these bazaars were vaulted over with bricks work; but the great number were merely covered with flat beams which supports a roof of straw, dried leaves or brances of the tree and grass.…