Fertile Crescent

Underneath the Himalayas, Northwestern area of the Asian subcontinent was starting phase of an advanced city life, “a counterpart of the civilizations that had emerged along the Tigris and Euphrates and the Nile appeared along Indus river in northwestern India.” (Edgar, Robert R, et al 66). It was the most punctual known human progress in South Asia. It is known as the Indus Valley Civilization. It was the main human progress to thrive in India. This kept going from 2500 BC until 1500 BC. It is…

Mesopotamia means “land between the rivers” in Greek. The name basically reflects the centrality of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers to the way of life in this region. Mesopotamian civilization developed in the plain alongside and between the rivers, which originate in the mountains of eastern Anatolia and empty into the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia lies mostly within modern Iraq. To the north and east, an arc of mountains extends from northern syria and southeastern Anatolia to the Zagros mountains…

Nebuchadnezzar II should be remembered for his military achievements, he turned a deteriorating town into an empire, and he was also the greatest king that ancient Babylon has ever had. Nebuchadnezzar was the son of former king, King Nabopolassar. This being said, Nebuchadnezzar had some big shoes to fill. His father defeated the Assyrians and liberated Babylonia from Assyrian rule, Nabopolassar could not do this by himself. He asked for help from the Medes to defeat the Assyrians. In defeating…

In 10,000 BC, humans began their life by gathering food and hunting. During this same time (10,000 BC) humans discovered that there was more than just hunting and gathering. They found domestic animals and the art of growing crops. This was when they changed from hunting to gathering to growing crops and raising cattle. This change allowed the humans to settle in one place, since the crops need to grow. Compared to how they were before, having to move around to hunt and gather food to survive.…

One of the most influential and important leaders in all of Mesopotamia’s history is Sargon of Akkad. Sargon ruled for 56 years before dying of natural causes, and during those 56 years, he made a name for himself as being an influential and effective ruler. Where and when exactly did he rule? He was able to control his people, and organize the vast areas of land he controlled by utilizing his resources in a way that has never been done before. (this sentence is way too vague. What made him so…

In the year 576 BCE the Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar commissioned his builders to construct and design a monumental gate on the outskirts of the city. The gate was situated at the main entrance to the promenade, north of the city’s border to the temple of Marduk, chief God of Mesopotamian. The monument was dedicated and named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of; love, fertility, war and sex. (Wikipedia) If thou openest not the gate to let me enter, I will break the door, I will…

It is only natural for one to be struck with curiosity about life; particularly, past life events that simply have no way of being proved. It is easy to recognize the existence of some things due to items such as artifacts, bones, etc., being preserved—but how could one possibly manifest the truth of a story? Where do you draw the line between a tall tale that was created to teach a lesson and a factual event? For example, the great flood. Civilizations and cultures all around the world have…

In historic Southwest of Asia history there were two different stories about a major flood. One story comes from the Mesopotamia Gilgamesh and the other from the Hebrew genesis which the stories had similarities and differences as well. Around 2000 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia there was a man named Gilgamesh king of Uruk, child of the Priest King Lugalbanda and his mother of goddess Ninsun. Gilgamesh was a demi-god two thirds god and one third man. The gods saw Gilgamesh as a horrible person, so…

Rohana was another territorial division of ancient Sinhalese civilization in Ceylon. It comprised an area of land based on nearly a hundred miles of coast line, bounding the mouth of Kalu Ganga, ends at the delta of Mahaweli Ganga and an arbitrary boundary linking the Adam’s peak. Indo Aryan was agriculturists and they were settlers in this territory, were immigrants from river valleys. The rulers of the main kingdom in Anuradhapura always tried to (Fig 01- Present southern province.)…

nothing like this unification. Years later, cities from all over the world developed and took on the agricultural lifestyle. In about 3100 BCE, the city of Nubia appeared in Egypt around the Nile River. Due to the Nile River, Nubia had extremely fertile soil, allowing them to flourish as a city. By about 2000 BCE, China’s two river valleys developed their own cities: Huang He Valley and the Chang Jiang River Valley. The Qin and Han Dynasties gave China unified rule and supported twenty percent…