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empire, and the Persian Empire. Major influences from these civilizations and empires have contributed to Western Civilization. Mesopotamian civilization developed between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and evolved to three definite societies: Sumer (2000s B.C), Babylonia (1000s B.C.), and Assyria (after 700s B.C.). The first known cities were founded by the Sumerians using architecture of mud and brick. The location of the cities was extremely important due to the availability of water.…

Of Gilgamesh is the first known writing. Humans early civilization was Mesopotamia ("between the rivers"), a collection of city-states in and around the Tigris and Euphrates fertile river valley (modern Iraq). The very first Mesopotamian empire was Sumer (2200 B.C.E) and the first city Uruk. Gilgamesh is the greatest surviving epic poem (long narrative poem) of Mesopotamian literature. The author is unknown because the story was passed on orally for generations before it was "fixed" and then…

cradle of civilization. As the “land between the rivers” Mesopotamia received abundant water resource from the Tigris and Euphrates that attracted many cultures to migrated and settled for its agricultural potential. As a result, civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon were emerged in Mesopotamia. The world’s first cities were built by the Sumerians and later developed to city-states as population grew. Rulers of city-states later became kings of their realms and their ambitions of…

One of the first river valley civilizations found itself nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent in now modern day Iraq, and Syria the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived for thousands of years. Despite it being such a great civilization researchers have only recently translating cuneiform when Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone on his conquests. Again war in Iraq and conquest have assisted the discovery of many clay tablets in Iraq. These clay tablets…

Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilization were two civilizations in South West Asia and North West Africa, beginning in 3,500 - 3,000 B.C.E. Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations both had similar religious beliefs, however their environment and culture, interaction and exchange, and city-states were different. Egyptians operated under a centralized government while, the Mesopotamians had self-controlled city-state governments. (Strayer, 82-83) The environment of each civilization was different,…

One of the most influential and important leaders in all of Mesopotamia’s history is Sargon of Akkad. Sargon ruled for 56 years before dying of natural causes, and during those 56 years, he made a name for himself as being an influential and effective ruler. Where and when exactly did he rule? He was able to control his people, and organize the vast areas of land he controlled by utilizing his resources in a way that has never been done before. (this sentence is way too vague. What made him so…

this is the last time his position as king is challenged. It’s as if killing his toughest opponent demonstrates that he of all people has the right to be king. Similarly, Mesopotamian kings had to constantly justify their rule to remain the ruler of Sumer and Akkad. Generally, all kings had to constantly repress revolts, but Naram-Sin, Akkadian emperor, is mostly famous for how he displayed his right to rule. In one year, his forces routed nine enemy armies composed of coalitions from multiple…

His grandfather, Sargon the Great, began the empire when he conquered Sumer and lands as far west as the Mediterranean Sea. (1) From then on, the empire continued to expand, with Naram-Sin 's rule marking the empire 's peak after conquering the city of Elba. (2) Naram-Sin 's kingship embodied the ideal of the "divine protector"…

Topoi of revealed secrets occur in over twenty-five ANE sources, ranging from Sumer, Babylon, and Persia in the east to Egypt and Greece in the west. In the following subsection is three positive-revelation sources possibly holding a parent-child relationship with Second Temple writings. The second subsection contains two for negative revelation. The three most likely sources for parent-child relationships are (1) the Ascent of Enmeduranki, (2) the Assyrian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and…

The environment is known as the natural world in which we live. It is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The environment affects our society everyday. What we decide to do during the day, where we go to vacation, and ultimately where we live. Luckily for us, our society and civilization had already been established with certain rules and customs. Those people who lived in the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek culture believed that the…