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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…

Salahuddin Al-Ayubi - warlords who admired. Salahuddin al-Ayubi was born in 532 AH 1138 AD in Tarkit that part of the West Bank of the River Tigris, located between Mosul and Baghdad. His father, a governor named Najm bin Shadhin is the nephew of Sultan Nurudin Zenggi, Kurdistan descent who came from Azerbaijan. Aside from being a warlord, he was also a preacher and leader of the non-Muslim leaders of the Arab nation. During his lifetime, he was in a tent more war than live in the palace with…

Surviving through droughts was not a critical factor to the survival of the Indus Valley Civilization; its people survived because of a remarkably advanced technological engineering not present in any of the Mesopotamian or Egyptian civilizations. The engineering and city planning used to design many of the three main cities of the Indus Valley suggest strong leadership and forethought to incorporate public works, irrigation, indoor plumping, reservoirs, and craft production. Their process of…

The most dominant civilizations in history may have possessed powerful weaponry or phenomenal wisdom. In addition to these qualities, a powerful determinant of a nation’s success is its agriculture. The emergence of agricultural production, storing, and distribution catalyze the development of a civilization. Advances of the Assyrian agriculture led to an immense growth in population and more elaborate technology. The agricultural development of the Minoan civilization gave way to trade,…

The Ancient Roman Aqueducts The Ancient Roman Aqueducts still stands today. It not only provided drinking water but it also is a building that transport water from place to place. What an Aqueduct is, is it’s a water supply constructed to convey water or you can call it a navigable channel. Some of the Aqueducts remain operational to this day. They may take form of underground surface channels and canals also covered pipes. A water fountain sited at the cities cattle-market supplied by Rome’s…

The Mayan Empire was a vast and marvaless empire within Mesoamerica. A population within the world that compares to it would be Egypt. These two locations share many similarities such as buildings, writing system, calendar system, and religion. These two places also share multiple differences that include geographic location, their form of religion, technology, and how their modern day societies turned out. To begin, Egypt and the Mayan Empire share a similarity in their building structures.…

Although The Epic of Gilgamesh primarily details the exploits and adventures of its title character, the two-thirds god and one-third mortal King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh’s friend and companion, Enkidu, is also central throughout the course of the epic. In the beginning of the epic, the goddess Aruru fashions Enkidu from clay, so as to create a counterweight against Gilgamesh’s rapaciousness and brutish strength. While Enkidu does initially serve almost as a foil of sorts to Gilgamesh, they…

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem that tells a story of the hero and historical figure Gilgamesh, a king who ruled over the Sumerian city of Uruk sometime around 2700 B.C.E, as well as his companion Enkidu. The epic poem explores many themes, mainly humankinds coping with the inevitably of death, as well as their struggle against the natural world and the gods. Throughout the Epic, Gilgamesh uses Technology cultivate the natural world around him and bring it to a state of civilization. One…

Throughout Global history, there have been many river valleys which play a big role on early civilization and make the important contribution to the world. Three civilization of these is Mesopotamia, India, and China. Mesopotamia is the land that located between Tigris and Euphrates river. This can be considered as the reason why Mesopotamia called Mesopotamia. In Greek, it technically means between two rivers, and obviously this is exactly what was happening. Also, the shape of it…

Ancient Egypt was a civilization that while intelligent, and grand, was still to the mercy of nature. Nature effected their entire way of life. It provided them with food. It affected their systems of belief. And it affected the political system. Despite the likely non-existence of their deities, nature ruled over their lives like said gods. The egyptians like every other civilization of that period relied heavily on the correct weather to give them the proper food for their survival. They…