Fertile Crescent

When the Treaty of Versailles was fully executed on June 28, 1919, five years to the date of Austria- Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, a collective sigh of relief could be felt by the world’s populace, however, this War to End All Wars, turned out to be anything but. From the very moment the peace talks began, political promises began to fall to the wayside causing tension between countries, some of which still exist today, and former allies began to have discord with one…

Science innovation 7 Futuristic Forms of Transportation We Could See Soon SURAJ - 23:07 1SkyTran Tel Aviv, Israel is in the heart of the Fertile Crescent, the outdated backing of human advancement. At any rate it’s anything other than antiquated. Tel Aviv is a lively, clamoring, 24-hour city €"with a genuine development issue. That is the reason they've situated themselves the goal of building ethereal alluring open transportation inside of a brief compass of time. They're calling it Sky…

In the past, during the Old Stone Age, everyone was mostly nomadic, meaning they migrated moving from place to place to follow game animals and ripening fruit for survival. Also, during this time early religious beliefs were called animism and that is the belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams. Yet, multiple years later there was a Neolithic agriculture revolution, people begin to grow their own crops, which gave them a reason to…

Egypt was blessed by being part of the Fertile Crescent around the Nile river, which allowed the Egyptians to grow a wide variety of crops, such as corn, wheat, and barley (Hanna). However, the Egyptian farmers had to work with the annual rise and fall of the Nile. The Egyptians had an ideal regular…

this may have caused a wide scale migration to another significant site in history known as Catal Hoyuk. Catal Hoyuk had been the first Neolithic “city” that provided a stable residence for thousands of people for thousands of years, as well as a fertile land and a plentiful supply of water, which made it possible for early man to farm. Gobekli Tepe, however, is the original blueprint, which gave way to Catal Hoyuk, along with all the proceeding cities both historical and modern. Gobekli Tepe…

Charles Camp and Timothy Lloyd explain in their 1980 paper “Six Reasons to Not Produce Folklife Festivals” that they want “to encourage folklorists...to think more deeply and more critically about festivals” (67). The goal of the majority of folklife festivals is to promote greater awareness among the general population about several cultures’ traditional practices, beliefs, and material items which in turn provides that culture with validation for those beliefs and practices. The festivals’…

Culture is important as it shapes our whole world and defines us. Culture enables us to survive, reproduce as a species, and expand our population. Culture is learned, shared, and symbolic. It is shared through dogmas, memories, and even values and expectations. It is learned the same way children absorb new information that is presented to them. In an unconscious and conscious learning process that is developed through interactions with others. Everybody possesses the ability to learn, to think…

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, a man named Jared Diamond is in New Guinea doing field work. He meets a New Guinean man named Yali. Yali and JD are both hungry for knowledge and goes exploring. While walking around, Yali asks JD why are the whites so successful and have so much “cargo” compared to the other locals. Then, JD rephrases the question: Why did the White Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns,…

Author Print Profile Sam Preece is the spawn of a painfully abrasive family hailing from the flowery town of Shrewsbury. He has an incorrigible compulsion to waste his days watching science fiction films, both good and bad, and playing video games until his eyes are bloodshot. By obtaining a degree in journalism & creative writing, he hopes to write lofty screenplays and to not be swallowed by the voids of insignificance and obscurity. Author Web Page Text Bio…

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves” - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Society. But how exactly did that happen? And how come one can still see the effects of this today? Many people grow up in poverty, but many others do not -- sometimes those who grow up poor are from first world countries, and many of them are from third world…