Fertile Crescent

From c.2700 B.C.E to c.1050 B.C.E, Egypt was divided in three kingdoms in three different periods. The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms and each kingdoms had their own characteristics and achievements. Egypt’s Old Kingdom was one of the most dynamic periods in Egyptian art. In the third dynasty, 2649 B.C.E-2575 B.C.E, King Djoser’s architect, Imhotep, used a series of stepped stone mastabas instead of the classic mastaba to house the bodies of their kings and queens. The artistic geniuses of the…

easier and farmers were able to grow more food providing a food surplus, this allowed some people to leave the farm behind and develop specialized skills such as, writing, inventing, and artistry. Being that the root of all this prosperity, the Fertile Crescent was landlocked it made it easier for technologies and ideas to spread beyond its origin. Since places like Europe and Asia was on the same latitude they were able to reap the blessing with…

developed agriculture independently. This led to large, complex states. Eventually, more connections between the world zones hurt West African civilizations. The start of West African states West Africa developed agriculture on its own, like the Fertile Crescent did earlier. Starting around 3000 BCE, West Africans began to grow more food. This food was extra energy that supported more people than did hunting and gathering. The rest of sub-Saharan Africa did not begin farming until 1000 BCE or…

more cargo is because they were geographically blessed. When the ice age hit a while back, temperatures began to drop and the climate became much more dry. This resulted into civilizations needing to flee and look for new land. Luckily in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East offered people many places to farm and spread. The effect of the ice age in Papua New Guinea wasn’t too rough since the island is located near the equator but still some plants or trees may have died off from the…

The World's First Cities In ancient Mesopotamia, a land of blazing sun and very little rainfall, irrigation was vital for farming. Centuries before the beginning of known history, the Sumerians undertook the stupendous task of building embankments to control the floodwaters of the Euphrates River. Gradually they drained the marshes and dug irrigation canals and ditches. Large-scale cooperation was needed to build the irrigation works, keep them in repair, and apportion the water. This need gave…

BCE. The orthodox theory was also the end of the last glacial epic, or last time when people were solely dependent on hunting for food production. One societal change that is a result of the orthodox theory is the Fertile Crescent, a region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa and the origin of the earliest domesticated plants and…

they had more advantages. If an area had no valuable domesticates to help it succeed, it most likely never became a successful agricultural homeland with plenty of domesticates. A few of the agricultural hearths that actually existed include the Fertile Crescent, Mesoamerica, Andes and Amazonia, West Africa, and New Guinea. Over time, the agricultural homelands changed and shifted to different regions, because newer homelands acquired domesticates that helped thrive and…

region by the rivers, the shelter they lived and the natural barriers that surrounded their region. The lives of people were shaped by the geography of their region because of the rivers. According to document 5, Mesopotamia is the fertile…

Europeans continues to develop more than the New Guineans because they have greater access to resources. The New Guineans have always been disadvantaged because the Europeans have mastered the method of animal domestication and gathering. It is hard for New Guineans to develop animal domestication because pigs are the only animals they can access. The Europeans developed because of the Middle East. 13,000 years ago the middle east had lots of food supply and humid. There were more forests,…

In this essay I will argue that ancient societies are not fundamentally different from modern societies by exploring the two key themes of writing and ancient beliefs about life and death. I will investigate Sumerian Cuneiform and its original uses, the origin of Greek letters from Phoenician, and the use of the Latin script by the Romans. Then, I will investigate the funerary practices of the ancient Hebrews, those of the Vikings, and then the practices of the Romans. By doing this, I will…