Fertile Crescent

Slavery is one of the world’s oldest businesses in existence. With the establishment of agriculture came civilization. With civilization came the establishment of social classes. And with all hierarchies there has to be something at the bottom. The most vulnerable of society were a prime resource for a life of servitude and enslavement by the upper and middle classes. The popular view of slavery is a brutal and inhumane system used by only the most cruel and barbaric of societies. But in truth…

My take on the differences that exist between developed and developing nations fundamentally remains the same as it had before the viewing of this series. Ultimately, these beliefs remain consistent and this series delivers a perspective that, though new to me, still serves to reinforce my basic take on this. That is, that disparities in development and stability of nations, is not contingent on any differences in intelligence among the respective populace of nations, but rather it came down to…

The eighteenth century highlighted the strengths of the European powers , and the weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire. For three hundred and eighty three years , the Ottoman Empire, built and managed to maintain their territories over the Middle East. However, the West was achieving political , military and economic superiority at a rapid pace. This sort of rivalry was not unfamiliar with the Ottomans , yet it was quite alarming to them. They were not fond of the thought that perhaps the European…

One of the first river valley civilizations found itself nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent in now modern day Iraq, and Syria the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived for thousands of years. Despite it being such a great civilization researchers have only recently translating cuneiform when Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone on his conquests. Again war in Iraq and conquest have assisted the discovery of many clay tablets in Iraq. These clay tablets…

central China, the Chang Jiang (chang•jyhang), also called Yangtze (yang•SEE), flows east to the Yellow Sea. The Huang He, whose name means “yellow river,” deposits huge amounts of yellowish silt when it overflows its banks. This silt is actually fertile soil called loess (LOH•uhs), which is blown by the winds from deserts to the west and north. Environmental Challenges Like the other ancient civilizations in this…

The United Nations has projected that by 2050 the world population will reach approximately 9 billion (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2009, para. 2). As population increases, so does the demand for food resources. Since only a small percentage of the world population is vegetarians, animal proteins remain an important source for fulfilling basic nutritional needs. In addition to increasing population growth, Van Huis (2012) states that the recent economic bubble in developing countries in…

1. Beer itself may have influence the transition of hunting and gathering to agriculture based societies, because in order to get beer you need barley. "In the Fertile Crescent, starting around 9000 BCE, as humans begin cultivating barley and wheat deliberately, rather than simply gathering wild grains for consumption and storage."(Standage 20) With human gather these surplus amounts of wheat and other grains, they could use the extra time instead of finding food and indulge himself in craft.…

The Greek Mythology is a Polytheistic religion. It was created in the era of Classical Greece, in 500 b.c.e. The Greek Gods were meant to offer explanations of natural phenomenon, human qualities, and life events. Each God of Goddess had their own unique abilities that helped with the explanations. They even had a king. Zeus was the king of the gods. He ruled at the top of Mount Olympus and wielded a weapon, The Lightning Bolt. Zeus had power over the sky, lightning, and thunder. His most…

Sharia, literally “the way,” is the legal code of Islam. Sharia essentially comes from Mohammed’s teachings. Therefore, the development of Sharia began in 610 CE, when Mohammed began prophesizing about Allah. Over the next thousand or so years, as Islam spread throughout the world, Mohammed’s words were written down and interpreted. Over time the teachings and interpretations became official legal documents called the Quran and Sunna, which act similarly to the Torah and Gemara in Jewish…

susceptible to the evil effects of alcohol. Human beings invented alcohol at the same time the first civilization was built on the muddy banks of the Euphrates river. It was fermented as a way to escape the danger and disarray of life in the fertile crescent. Overtime, the need for his escapist drug has lessened, and it has become a social drink instead of medicine. We no longer prescribe it as a solution to our problems. Alcohol and history can been intertwined since the beginning, but now is…