Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus River Valley Civilizations all invented many new tools, and inventions which were some of the greatest until the 18th, and 19th Centuries. These Ancient Civilizations began around 8,000 years ago, and lasted for about 5,000 years Mesopotamia and Egypt are located near the Mediterranean Sea, and are in the Fertile Crescent. The Indus River Valley Civilization is located south of the Himalayas in India. All these civilizations had technologies that allowed them…

1. Explain how the natural surroundings and history of Mesopotamia contributed to the worldview of the people. Include their view of ultimate reality, the nature of the world, humanity, morals, and government. (20 points) Their gods were intolerable, capricious, malevolent, and vindictive. Since there were over 15 hundred gods, they always fought with each other. Their purpose was to bring security and prosperity, but there was an only ever violent war against each other. Gods inhabited nature,…

Throughout the upsurge and destruction of numerous social systems in the history of early civilization, the men of Ancient Mesopotamia had successfully established a deep rooted patriarchal influence and authority on society—a system that is controversial yet still robust in modern America today. Patriarchy, according to The Oxford English Dictionary, is “a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it”. During the extensive progression of the…

The treatment of women is all different in each of these regions in Mesopotamia, Greece, China, Roman Empire, and Medieval Europe. Each place they tell different point of views of what women must deal with. It shows the laws of each region of what women can and can’t do. I will be going through each story to see how women were treated and how they handled situations. In Mesopotamia women are not close to being treated equal to men. They have the law called “give an eye for an eye” which means…

over the course of more than a thousand years. The first polytheist god is Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. On the site of The Temple of Aphrodite that there is a 7C BCE wooden temple to this goddess, demonstrating the site’s only connection to Mesopotamia. Demonstrated in “Inana’s Descent to the Nether World”, the Mesopotamians believe that Ishtar ascended down to the underworld and her time there represented winter. During the time of their worship to Ishtar it demonstrated their values of…

Mesopotamians also believed in demons which were created by the gods, and they could either be good or evil. If a calamity occurred, then it meant that the bad demons were angry and thus they decided to punish people for their wrong doings. The people of Mesopotamia therefore worshipped these gods in order to make them happy, thus reduce the chances…

In Saudi Arabia during the classical period Mesopotamia was taken over by the Persians around 500BC (7, 1). The first leader of Persia was Cyrus. He allowed the people he conquered, to keep their religions and cultures. Cyrus was succeeded by his son Cambyses. After Cambyses Darius became the leader. Darius said he was told by god that he was meant to rule (1, 160-161). Darius wanted to make a set of laws that created uniform throughout the empire. After Darius, his son Xerxes became the new…

dynasty) are past breaktough urbaneness that started off the civilizations. These civilizations appear to have developed in response to their environment and in reaction to their human need for survival and security. The first human civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, and China all developed around rivers; as such they were called alluvial, or located in the plains surrounding a river. For Egypt, controlling where the water went, using irrigation, was critical to their…

The Hammurabi Code comes from the ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia, which is considered to be one of the most valuable discoveries in human existence. The record and the substance were used to assemble the hammurabi code, it can tell a lot about how life in the empire was. In most cases, punishment was left to the gods to determine. The code was interpreted from the beginning to the ending addressed from the gods. There is a lot about the Babylonian society that can be learned through reading the…

levels earlier in schools shows that they will be more motivated after leaving high school. Kids these days do not like school. They do not like sitting in a classroom for an hour. Also they do not like boring speeches or lessons. Back then in Mesopotamia the kids actually loved education the reason they loved education was because they did not have as many opportunities as we do today they would only do school for 2 hours. I think that we can get kids to actually like learning by making the…