Near East

Technology has changed and advanced vastly over time. Through out these three articles a variety of technological advances are displayed. The first article is about how technology for treasure hunters have improved. The second article is how technology for hurricane hunters have improved. The third article is about how technology has advanced for people who explore looking for ancient civilizations. The most advanced technology for researchers today is the ones used for finding ancient…

of the earliest development of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 B.C. It has established some of the most important developments in human history including the wheel, cursive, math, and astronomy. Their culture extended out to the Middle East and the Indus Valley. Mesopotamia is considered the beginning of civilization. Sumer, the first civilization, consisted of city-states. Rulers of these city-states of these states were both secular and spiritual rulers. Sometimes they fought over…

Have you ever thought of life in Mesopotamia? What did the civilizations value? Civilizations included the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Hebrews. Many features and ideas of these civilizations influenced how people live and behave nowadays. The Mesopotamians put a great emphasis on literature, religion and laws/morals. In document #2 it discusses literature through the story The Epic of Gilgamesh. It is made up of ancient folk-lore, tails and myths. The story is about a king named…

The most significant factor that influenced the development of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia was the geography of the two regions, both regions had fertile land for agriculture which helped develop the cities, they were also located near rivers which encouraged trade for the cities allowing them to grow and prosper. The fertile land produced by the region's rivers helped develope cities through agriculture. The rivers running through the two regions also helped encourage trade allowing the…

In all of the societies we have discussed thus far there seem to be a lot of similarities to their development which shows that even the societies that develop continents away aren’t really so different. The first similarity I see in most civilizations is where they choose to build their settlements. Most ancient civilizations with the exception of the Persians built their settlements around waterways or more specifically rivers. The fertile lowlands around these rivers gave settlers access to…

For nearly 3,000 years, Ancient Egypt has stood as one of the world’s most advanced civilizations. Ancient Egypt possesses the characteristics of a great civilization with its solid centers of commerce, strong leaders, skilled workforce, organized belief system, social structure, art and architecture, public works, and writing. These eight characteristics has shown that the Egyptians had constructed a wide and expansive civilization. Ancient Egypt, one of the oldest and longest human…

Geography of the Ancient World In modern society it is quite easy for people to live anywhere. With today’s technology and logistic abilities, human civilizations are found everywhere from the coast to the mountains to the desert. In present day, you can do everything from eating seafood in Arizona to buying bananas at the store in Alaska. However, in ancient times this was not so because geography is what determined where civilization was located. In early times, life was sustained by farming…

La’Dreamer Jones Dr. Hermann 9.27.16 Egypt and Mesopotamia are two of the oldest river-valley civilizations. Egypt and Mesopotamia are different when it comes to their religious, political, and cultural systems but they still possess some similarities. Egypt as well as Mesopotamia was ruled by a king, however the political system was structured differently. The similarities and differences of these civilizations are the reasons why they may have thrived or fallen in particular areas of having…

From the ancient stories of the past, to new architecture being found, to the information historians find every day; ancient history continues to be the building blocks for the modern world. Ancient history shows evidence of how civilizations formed, how communities were built based from geography, and how languages developed when building a functional society. During the different ages of ancient times, some ancient civilizations had similarities while still possessing many different…

Mesopotamia was a place between two rivers. Mesopotamia is often called the land between two rivers. The rivers that Mesopotamia are called the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. It is in the middle of modern Iraq. mesopotamia is known for its rich soil, which is formed by the rivers. They created the first written language and the first official religion. Three different groups of people lived here. These groups were the Sumerians, the akkadians, and the Babylonians. Sumerians were the…