Mesopotamia

Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic Age lived in assorted habitats which allowed them to gather seafood, nuts,eggs, and fruits not collected by scavenging. Hunting and gathering was thought to be the main strategy used by human societies to collect food about 1.8 million years ago, and from its re-appearance about 0.2 million years ago. It remained the only way of collecting food until the end of the Mesolithic period about 10,000 years ago. Beginning in transition between the Middle to Upper…

On a visit to San Antonio, people can see how it developed tourist attractions. These attractions were left behind for history to be spoken. San Antonio portrays a good image of the development of its history in the success of improvement, action, and dynamics as it can relate to the article of “A Spanish borderland community: San Antonio” by Jesus F. De La Teja given to discuss the brief information to explain Fr. Benito Fernandez’s letter. Wise choice that the missions did was by expanding…

Lorenzo Lertora Ms. Castañeda Humanities 6 Black Panthers 16 November 2015 Ancient Egypt Government The government was a Monarchy Their ruler was called the Pharaoh The Pharaoh had a hierarchy below him because under his position came the Vizier The Vizier was kind of like a Prime Minister The vizier was the Chief overseer of the land Citizens paid taxes to support the government Below the viziers were the Nomarks Nomarks ruled an area called a nome and that was like a state or province When the…

It appears that the Pyramid Texts are indeed reflective of ancient Egyptian society at the time of the OK. Distribution and usage of funerary texts indicate how strongly the upper and lower classes were divided. (At this point in history, the middle class did not exist yet). The political and religious dominance of the pharaoh was firmly established and never questioned. The PT also reflected religious beliefs but altered to better the perception of kingship (Simpson 2003:247). To further…

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a civilization is a well-organized and developed society. Sumer is an excellent example of that. Sumer was an advanced civilization that started around 5500 B.C.E. to 4000 B.C.E. and ended around 1700 B.C.E.. All civilizations have the seven characteristics of civilization; agriculture, technology, government, religion, language, social structure, and the arts. Sumer had sophisticated versions of all these characteristics. However, the three most…

All the technologies mentioned in the pasasages have advanced through time (Metal detectors to mailboxes, airplanes that collect and send information by dropsondes to weather stations, and walking around with a torn map turned infared satellite imargery to LIDAR to GPR). They have had huge impacts on the researchers and explorers that use them for everyday discoveries. But, the most advancing technology throughout time is the tech to find ancient civilization. Many years ago, before we had…

The name of this workbook that these text summaries are from is called Envisioning World Civilizations. The book includes many documents with many different viewpoints. All of the documents from this assignment are related because they all deal with creation in some form or another. Comparing these documents can help give us different creation examples from different time periods as well as different religious viewpoints. In this chapter of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu tells Gilgamesh of the…

Nearly 4,000 years ago a man named Hammurabi became a king of a small city state called Babylonia. Hammurabi was ruling Babylon for 42 years and in those years he created the Code of Laws. In those years he has created 282 laws for the people of Babylonia. These laws were carved on a pillar like stone called stele for everyone to see so they knew the consequences of crimes and rules. So in consideration to that, what were these laws like are they fair or unjust. Hammurabi's code of laws is…

Often we look at laws and think are these laws unfair or fair to society? Hammurabi’s code is one of the world’s oldest set of laws. His laws were not just. Hammurabi’s punishments did not fit his laws, they didn’t treat everybody equally, and the laws did not look at both sides. Hammurabi’s punishments did not fit his punishments. First, it says in law 129 that “if a married lady is caught ( in adultery) with another man, they shall bind them and cast them into water” people should be given a…

The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Present Day ISIS: History Appears to Repeat Itself The Neo-Assyrian Empire lasted from 911 to 612 B.C.E., while ISIS is still in power today. Though these two Semitic governments are far apart in regards to time, they are eerily similar in their actions, strategies, and the makeup of their civilization. Northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey was where the Assyrian Empire encompassed, and ISIS is based in the Islamic state of Iraq and Greater Syria, with the largest…