Fertile Crescent

For the past 7 million years, humans have found methods of survival. From the beginning of the human race, until agriculture is discovered and introduced, hunting, gathering, and scavenging was the only viable strategy of getting food (Weisdorf, 2005). These methods have evolved over time as either food supplies increased, decreased or disappeared. There wasn't a choice but to adapt to their surroundings to survive. From the beginning until about 10,000 years ago, hunting and gathering appeared…

(Gross, 2013, 669). Whether society was developed because of agriculture or conversely is contested, but we do know they both emerged around the same time. Gross (2013) draws on theories from Samuel Bowies and Jung Kyoo Choi who argue that in the Fertile Crescent there was a “co-evolution of food production and property rights — rather than technological progress based on inventions” (Gross, 2013, 668). George Wilcox and Danielle Strordeur’s research is also used, and concludes that there is…

In the Ancient and Classical eras, religion played a significant role not only in everyday life but in the political sphere as well. In ancient times, many rulers derived their power from religious sources. In fact, during this period, leaders in many civilizations were viewed as divine figures themselves, giving them absolute power and leaving little room for citizens in their respective societies to affect the political scene in any meaningful way. This idea changed by the beginning of the…

I. Pre-reading Assignment 1. Big History is a course that tells about the 13.8 billion year during history. Big History interrelates professional thinking about the universe into a coherent story and looks at the entire span of history at different scales, up to the greatest scale. It is told chronologically using disciplinary tools. It’s a modern, scientific version of an origin story. It is a way to look at our history and understand human's place in the world that incorporates all of time.…

Our lesson begins with how our food production has developed, and, as doing so, how we destroyed the environment. One of the most prominent study on population was done by Tomas Robert Malthus. Born in 1766, he argued that since the rate of population growth and food supply growth are different, there will be more people than food. Fundamentally, he is claiming that food supply determines the population. This theory was the base that lead to Social Darwinism. However, Ester Boserup disagreed.…

A way to learn about where these people come from, because languages all revert back to one location, one place, one people, all spread across the world and changing over time. Language originated from north east Africa and across the fertile crescent, and since then has evolved all across the world to adapt to the people. Language correlates to the people as different ethnic groups migrated. Language helps paint the picture for who you are and your culture, where you come from. Just…

The regions that they all reside in are high population centers due to their natural fertility relative to their surroundings such as the fertile crescent region of the Middle East in which the Sumerians were found. The transition from hunter-gatherer to agrarian societies is what allowed people to have the time to innovate as well as rid themselves of the need to be mobile, which allowed them…

their attitudes towards law and social justice. Mesopotamia, meaning the “land between the rivers”, was one of the earliest civilizations in the world. It was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, an area also referred to as the Fertile Crescent. Mesopotamia was by…

As different religions throughout diverse cultures and various countries were explored, the majority if not all shared a common way of experiencing the divine. Religions are formed through sensual engagement or stimulation to the five senses and is evident throughout every religious group whether primitive or “modern”. The ability to see, feel, touch, taste, and smell allows for the participant to feel something whether it be stimulation to just one sense or a combination of senses. These…

During the Stone Age, many different cities and struggled and starved because of one thing. Which is lack of water and other natural resources. So you can understand why the Mesopotamia and the Nile River was significant. It helped the environment as well as the people there. Water was now available anytime it was needed, farming and agriculture also expanded, making it easy make crops for families. Also civilizations came to past with the rise of cities, therefore beginning the New Stone Age.…