Fertile Crescent

Agriculture and Trade: Seeds for Society Human society in the time before 11,000 BCE looked much the same regardless of location. All human’s shared the same never ending desire to satiate their hunger in the quest for food. Within the constraints of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle humanities penchant for diversity and ingenuity had little room for flourishment. With no permanent refuge and no place for storage besides your own person, only the essentials to life could be taken with you. Because of…

We have learned many things over the course of this semester. To me the most interesting portion of anything to do with communications would be social media. The reason why is relatively simple. Social media has been there since people were around. From the time of Neanderthals to present day as I sit here and type this. Social media has been around as long as communications has been around. If I had to define social media I would call it something loosely along the lines of a message of some…

• The historical significance of the term Fertile Crescent is that this is the piece of land the Mesopotamians depended on agriculture. The reason was that in the region the Mesopotamian’s lived in; there was only an arc of land that was the only adequate farming land near Mesopotamia. • The historical importance of the word Mesopotamia is that this was one of the first city-states ever built. The reason for that is every year the Tigris and Euphrates River will flood Mesopotamia which will…

from above. (4) This depiction harkens back to the ancient king Gilgamesh, one of the most famous Mesopotamian kings. As the Akkadian Empire expanded, the Akkadians became exposed to Sumerian art and culture, which further spread thoughout the Fertile Crescent. There is a strong possibility that Naram-Sin was inspired by the portrayal of divine kingship in ancient Mesopotamia and molded his image after that ideal. In the inscription on the Basetki statue his godliness is explictly spelled out,…

3.A. What are the major characteristics that should be achieved before a social organization qualify to be considered as a civilization? Civilization is often defined as "an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry and government has been reached." Civilization can only take place in a context of “states”. Decision making does not only takes place within a home and between family members, but it takes place in a centralized power-structures where…

About 40% of the Afghans in 1996 were Pashtun. Most of the Pashtuns live in a very large crescent shaped belt near the eastern Afghan-Pakistani border. The Pashtuns are basically Caucasians from the Mediterranean. They were normally pastoral nomad with a mighty tribal organization. Usually their tribes were divided into clans, sub clans, and…

1. After watching all seven parts of the documentary "The Real Eve", please describe the route(s) that the earliest humans took out of Africa and how humans eventually arrived on several continents, as explained in the documentary. Please include a minimum of SIX specific countries, bodies of water, continents, OR other locations referred to in the video--SIX locations total. There are two possible routes that the earliest humans took out of Africa. One was North of the Red Sea across the Sues…

development of humankind. Beer and wine are both alcoholic beverages, that till this day are still existent and have changed through out the years. According to Standage, beers discovery was inevitable around 10,000 BCE in a region called the Fertile Crescent (11). Cereal grains being the primary ingredient for beer, which at first they did not know but suddenly were able to discover how it could be used in different aspects not only for eating. Discovering that gruel after a few days would…

between itself and France with no regard to the Arab people of their cultures. Their method for division was to each gain territory that was of economic interest to them. For example, Britain established colonies in parts of the Levant and the Fertile Crescent so that it could secure oil interest. It then divided this area into Palestine, Transjordan, and what is now Iraq. But in doing this, it grouped Arab peoples who had not gotten along for centuries in the same country. This has lead to…

Cereal is a name derived from the Roman goddess, Ceres, meaning “to create” (Brown, 2015). The word cereal refers to all types of grains. Gramineae, are cereal grain seeds relative to the grass family. The grain kernel, or berry, is called the caryopsis; which is the edible part of the plant. Caryopses are individual kernels or grains found in all grasses (Brown, 2015). Each caryopsis contains a husk, bran, endosperm, and germ. A husk, also known as the chaff, is the protective outer layer of a…