Fertile Crescent

By starting off with the background of ancient Egypt, the geography of consisted of Nile River, Red Sea, Black Sea and the canal, where the ancient Egyptians relied mainly on Nile River to sustain their community with fertile soil to raise crops. In addition, the river also provided the ability to to trade and provided water for irrigation. The geography in the Egyptians’ territory consisted deserts, which did not help their civilization at all. The goal of the Nile River…

complete governmental power, causing the Egyptian Kingdom to lose all their power and fall under the Romans as low life peasants/servers. Before the fall of the kingdom, Egypt was known as a huge source for healthy living and tremendous trade due to the fertile land along the Nile. Making the takeover for Rome a crucial part of their survival as a civilization. Still there was a red flag on how to impose their power over such a vast amount of land and be able to control it…

climate change, which led to the development of food production. Since the development of food production this led to settlements which cause trading to happen both locally and over long distances. Hunters and gathers villages faced crisis when the Fertile Crescent region became drier and cooler, there was a decline in the availability of food production which was them to move from one place to another which led the agriculture and permanent settlement (Harmon pg.10-11). In Windspear he talks…

Ancient Phoenicia was a geographically positioned that led to great wealth and spread its influence through trade. Geography played a very important role in the empire's growth. I am going to explain the land location, trading, and defensive positions of Phoenicia. Ancient Phoenicia was near the water, which made it the ideal location for a trading hub. It was north of Canaan which is modern day is Palestine and the coastal area of modern day Gaza.This allowed Phoenicia to expand into a…

area called the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia. This civilization, called Sumer, was built on the basis of agriculture. Because their whole civilization was based on agriculture, they needed to live on fertile soil where their crops could grow, and this caused them to live near rivers, specifically the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Similar to Sumer, starting around 2000 BCE, the ancient Chinese river valley civilization began to develop relying on the Huang He River to give them fertile soil for…

goats, sheep, horses, pigs, and cows. Whereas, the only domesticated animal in Papua New Guinea was the pig. Pigs were a good source of nutrients, however, they cannot be milked or used to plow fields like the animals that migrated from the Fertile Crescent. With there being no surplus in food Papua New Guinea, individuals were unable to focus on other technological advancements, like the formation of metal…

vital for the development of human societies as we know them now (Gupta 2004, Brown et al. 2009). The first steps for this transition were taken in multiple places independently, one of which was Southwest Asia and especially the area called Fertile Crescent where management of plant populations started and transformed them into many of the domestic crops that are a stable of our diet even today (Doebley et al. 2006, Brown et al. 2009). Shortly after that the first attempts at harnessing the…

the birthplace of many diverse civilizations that arose later on. I agree that civilization originated there because the rise of complex urban centers became a foundation for political and economic stability. The abundance of food grown in the fertile crescent made it possible for large numbers of people to live together. Because of the population growth and a stable food source, more people began to specialize and trade their products. Subsequently, long-distance trade stirred the accumulation…

years ago by a group of people called by God. These people called Hebrews, who considered to be “God’s Chosen People”, originated from the country Ur or otherwise known today as the Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia. Originally, the Hebrews were known as a nomadic people who grazed their herds along the Fertile Crescent. Abraham, a wealthy leader of the group of the Hebrews, was called upon by God to travel to a new homeland where he would be the founder of a Great Nation. The two, Abraham and…

began to replace hunting and gather with farming, leading them to settle down in villages. This will ultimately lead to the world’s first cities. In addition, new technology was developed such as pottery, wheeled vehicles, and writing. 2. In the Fertile Crescent, archaeological evidence showed flint-bladed sickles for harvesting cereal grains, woven baskets for carrying them, stone hearths for drying them, underground pits for storing them, and grindstones for processing them. 3. The…