Mesopotamia

Ancient civilizations have played a major part in the development of religion. From the land of the Aztecs to Greece, the different civilizations have various aspects that have made huge impact on their development. In particular, the Sumerian civilization has one aspect that makes it unique to the others. Their myths and spoken word creates explanation of how the world was created. While they are not the only civilization to use myths, Sumerian stories have yet to cease to exist. As stated…

Ancient Sumer In the middle east, along the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers leading to the Persian Gulf explains where the Sumerian civilization settled. The Sumer civilization were referred to as the first river valley civilization, since rivers ran through the land. The land was not considered desirable due to all the flooding, mud slides, and depositing fertile soil. Although the rivers overflown their banks and created a nuisance, the people worked together to generate and develop their…

Eurasia had geographical benefits compared to South American and Africa. Eurasia geographical benefits include livestock, weather, movement, and crops. Their livestock varied with animals such as lamb, cows, pigs, chicken, donkeys, and horses. Europe, Middle East, and Asia have temperate weather they also have four to three seasons all year around. The four the three seasons are their moderate growing seasons. Eurasia’s migration was easier compared to South America and Africa’s because of…

Known as one of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world, Egypt, Greek and the Roman Empire erected majestic buildings dedicated to gods and lieders. Each of these civilizations share many similarities and differences in architecture and culturally. Based on images form the book Understanding Architecture, Temple of Amon Karnak, Parthenon Athens, and Pantheon Rome. These similarities and differences will be discussed in this essay. Also, a portion of this essay will research how and why…

Christian Gonzalez Foundations of Civilization Mr. Livingston 14 September 2016 Contributions of Sumerians While the Sumerians were a civilization that existed around 3000 B.C., they made important discoveries towards civilization, technology, intellect, and politics. First of all, the invention of writing is credited to the Sumerians around 3200 B.C. Their writing began as pictograms that were pressed into soft clay tablets for record keeping purposes at first, and that form evolved of…

The Incan Empire, at its peak, extended over 2,600 miles of South America spanning almost the entire western coast of the continent (D’altroy 3). A large portion of its kingdom was mountainous villages and communities, all functioning at altitudes surpassing 13,000 feet (McKay 307). The Inca developed a large empire in the Andes due to the successful management and intelligent use of the land coupled with their unique physiology. Inca farmers were very aware of the environment they lived in…

Sumerian art was ornate and complex. The mediums that were used were sculpture and painting. The figures and paintings showed their reverence towards the gods and a religious culture. Most sculptures were made of clay and “the bodies were cylindrical and not differentiated by gender, uplifted heads and hands clasped – pose of supplication – wanting or waiting on something” (“Sumerian”). Practically all sculptures were used for religious rituals or religious adornment. “The Warka Vase, is the…

There are few criterias that have been classified by social scientists that would distinguish a group of people as a civilization. These criterias are having cities, an organized government, a complex religion, a system of writing, job specialization, and social classes. Ancient Egypt and Ancient Sumer had similarities and differences on government, religion, system of writing and their social classes. Ancient Egypt and Sumer are similar due their ways of life. While both the Egyptians…

The journey of discovering mortality also occurred within the epic through Gilgamesh's journey to find immortality. In order to help discover his humanity, Gilgamesh asked himself a series of questions as well as addressed his fear with death directly through these questions. Some of his questioning can be seen here, "I am going to die!--am I not like Enkidu?! Deep sadness penetrates my core, I fear death, and now roam the wilderness...I saw lions, and I was terrified! I raised my head in prayer…

Not only did ancient Egypt have a sufficient amount of food to supply for themselves, they also had such a surplus, that they could supply their neighbors with their grain. First and foremost, having a food surplus wasn’t the most common because usually civilizations only had what was necessary, instead of extra. Also, Egypt is in the middle of a desert, so them having a surplus in grains is far from what would be expected. Egypt is sometimes referred to as the “Breadbasket” of the ancient world…