Fertile Crescent

bread it takes up to four days to make. Sago can not be stored for that long after made. That did not make sago a good food source because they would spend so much time putting in and only getting out which means less calories you're getting. Fertile crescent grows wheat, is…

subtle, yet powerful, ways. These six drinks are beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Each one was a hallmark of a different era of civilization. Beer was the defining drink of the ancient civilizations of the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilized society. The Fertile Crescent extends…

in the Fertile Crescent began in Jordan and Israel, a region known as the southern Levant. “The model was that everything started there, and then everything spread out from there, including maybe the people,” said Melinda A. Zeder, a senior research scientist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. But in recent years, Dr. Zeder and other archaeologists have overturned that consensus. Their research suggests that people were inventing farming at several sites in the Fertile…

Constantinople primarily built by Constantine the Great was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire that ultimately fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. To begin with, the downfall of Constantinople substantially impacted the world economically. Moreover, Constantinople’s fall vastly influenced the world through political matters. Furthermore, the fall of Constantinople affected the world culturally and socially. Thus, Constantinople’s fall to the Ottoman Empire had very much influence on the…

Ancient Mesopotamia was very violent because of where they were located, They had a shortage of resources which led to war and brutal battles, Leaders had to use brutal methods to gain control. Humans need access to water and fertile farming ground so early humans usually settled near the water such as the Indus civilization who started their civilization near the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Ancient civilizations usually settled near flood lands which could sometimes lead to death because of…

As a massive turning point in human history, plant and animal domestication has influenced our present-day lifestyle from the foods we eat to the languages we speak. Starting from its earliest ground, the Fertile Crescent, the act of domesticating plants and animals has been so ingrained in our modern world that the origins of domestication come unexpectedly. Although domestication is a widespread process today, it was rather unpopular with early peoples. Farmers back then had no model of…

Why did trade thrive in Muslim lands? In 610 C.E., Muhammad founded a new religion called Islam. Muhammad’s religion inspired the Arab people, and the Muslims had conquered an area stretching from Afghanistan to parts southern Spain. Trade, ideas, and culture thrived in this Islamic empire. Islam brought a sense of unity and purpose to the traders and people of the Arabian Peninsula. Arab armies spread Islam through the Middle East and beyond. Muslim traders also spread Islam. Between…

knowledge of the world and this allowed them to domesticate plants and animals. Page 31 Question 6- The Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution effected each part of the world differently. For example, wild pigs and wheat were commonly found in the Fertile Crescent, but was a rare find in the Americas. Potatoes were plentiful in the Andes but were never to be found in Asia or Africa. Page 34 Question…

extremely interesting because I had always looked at history as two time lines a biblical time line and a secular time line and I could never figure out just how they fit together. This includes how a lot of the genesis stories started in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia and that that time is the same in both the Hebrew and secular time lines, for some reason I could never figure out of these “two” timelines fit together. For some reason today it seems like we separate these two although…

Jared Diamond the author of the best seller “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” explores and distinguishes the ultimate factors that explain the broad patterns that led to the emergence and dominance of Europe. Throughout the book, Diamond argues that the dominance of Europe since the Stone ages was caused by environmental and geographical factors. As stated by Diamond: “ Environment molds history” – he reiterates his ideas by making use of themes like agriculture, the…