Fertile Crescent

Jared Diamond, uses figurehead Yali, a New Guinean politician, to shape his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel. Yali asks an essential question in which Jared Diamond formulates his work around. “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (14). Even though Yali’s question was only relating the differences between the New Guinean and European lifestyles and success, Jared Diamond was able to broaden Yali’s…

In today’s world, it seems like new inventions are produced every day, but only a handful of them are truly noteworthy. Not much has changed over the course of time, however a few are worth mentioning. A small batch have made such an impact on the world, history has been altered by an idea, let alone the physical object. These improvements have been altered by war and disagreement, but in the end, they are the ones that leave a lasting imprint on our society. Although there were many…

1) How did the five features of civilization manifest themselves in ancient Egyptian Civilization? Would you consider ancient Egyptian civilization successful or non-successful? Why or why not? Egyptian Civilization is perceive as one of the most successful and sustainably designed civilization as it had efficiently deployed 5 features of civilization i.e. Farming/Field Irrigation/Food Storage, Central Government, Military Protection, Engineering/Architecture, and Sanitation. Egyptian…

in the Spanish arsenal was the Toledo sword. It was a long, hard, and pliable sword that was characteristic of rapiers (GGS 20:00-21:00). In the film, Jared Diamond explains that Europeans inherited metal technology due to its proximity to the Fertile Crescent, which allowed for the adoption of the knowledge of smithing, whereas the Inca had no such knowledge or ability to advance their weaponry (GGS 19:36- 19:40). Thus, steel was mastered by the Spanish, which made it a deadlier weapon than the…

1. How did growing social and gender hierarchies and expanding networks of trade increase the complexity of human society in the Neolithic period? In the Neolithic period of human civilization, societal developments like agricultural revolution led to social ranking or "hierarchies" and patriarchal favor. The latter customs became increasingly integrated into the daily ways of men and women as plow agriculture dominated human ways of life. As This period of agricultural renaissance and trade…

the course of written history. And it still continues to this day to cause wonder and raise questions in our society. The first written record of dreams started 3100 B.C. with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. Ancient civilizations that resided in fertile crescent, began to take careful notes of the dreams that they and their leaders would have. Firmly believing that they where messages from the gods. They believed that the dreamer…

For any evidence of a civilization ever existing there has to be some form of art or architecture left behind. Clues of a long forgotten government, economy, and social class for scientists to find. Remains of their math and science, religion and literature works left to vanish into thin air. The remnants of Mesopotamia reveal to us that their intellectual achievements were far greater than those of Egypt, in terms of their architecture, economy and government, knowledge in math and science,…

The Ancient World is a complex matrix of multiple civilizations spanning roughly 5,000 years, in recorded history. (Kramer, 1981). Beginning with the hunter-gatherers in Mesopotamia, and ending with the decline of the Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Ancient World was filled with contrasting and similar ideas, inventions, and religions. One aspect of these civilizations that stand out is the role of women. However, the roles of women deemed acceptable by society have not always been as diverse and…

The cross of Christianity is the main symbols which indicate that Jesus die on the cross to save the people. God is the king he the creator, that teaches god words is the truth, whom he is the god who speak the truth (Jn.17:17) whom he is our god which is the truth in the revelation is the bible. Although, he teaches that all men and women of all races is the creator of god equally. Christianity is the bible of the old testament (/old-testament) (the Jewish bible) also new testament (/testament)…

A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances designed to prevent, destroy, or control pests. The use of pesticides has been dated back to the beginning of agriculture, which was about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. However, pesticides have not always been an organic compound. The first generation of pesticides was composed of inorganic substances, such as sulfur, mercury, lead, arsenic (calcium arsenate and lead arsenate), and ash. The modern era of pesticides was developed…