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In 10,000 BC, humans began their life by gathering food and hunting. During this same time (10,000 BC) humans discovered that there was more than just hunting and gathering. They found domestic animals and the art of growing crops. This was when they changed from hunting to gathering to growing crops and raising cattle. This change allowed the humans to settle in one place, since the crops need to grow. Compared to how they were before, having to move around to hunt and gather food to survive.…

availability of food production which was them to move from one place to another which led the agriculture and permanent settlement (Harmon pg.10-11). In Windspear he talks about how the civilization developed first in the great river valleys the Ganges, Tigris, Euphrates and the Nile in the need of water for cultivation during the warmer weather ( Winspear pg.14). Since the weather was warmer and since the land was by the…

different points of view over religion and society. Society: The Mesopotamia and the Egyptian society were extremely different because of their different geographic locations. The Mesopotamia civilizations started to appeared in the middle of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Egyptian Civilizations started to emerge among the Nile; the geographic location plays a important role in their society because the Egyptian civilization had flood regularly while the Mesopotamia civilizations did…

The Earliest civilization in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is bordered on its sides by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia, in fact, is Greek for “between the rivers.” The rise of Sumerian Civilization began when the first Sumerian cities began in the lower part of Mesopotamia, and Sumer became a great empire inside of Mesopotamia. The Indus River Valley Civilization is the first civilization in India. The Indus Valley is located in the…

theocracy. Other civilizations followed the ways of the Sumerian beliefs, but some didn’t not last but for a short period of time and were not successful. The word Mesopotamia means land between rivers, which it’s true because it falls between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. People of the earliest civilization used copper and bronze, irrigation, created some form of writing, developed flood-plain agriculture, and had a complex religious and political system. Also the location of where…

Mesopotamia and egypt are different but are mostly two side of the same coin.They both were intelligent nations that were advanced for the their time and great wonders , however there were some difference if you looked at the details , but in the end they were more or less cut from the same cloth. First ruled by kings as independent city states, later, Mesopotamia would be ruled as empires. Strong kings or pharaohs and bureaucratic governments continued a period of continuity and Mesopotamia…

factors played a role in the rise and rule of Sumer, until its fall in 1900 BCE. Sumer was located in Mesopotamia, which was in modern day Iraq. Mesopotamia, which in Greek means ‘between two rivers’, was a river valley that fell in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia was located in an area called the Fertile Crescent, which got its name from the fertile soil that was in that area due…

our art advancements and made it possible for us to better advance over the years with the use of their techniques and style. Mesopotamia is considered to be one of the first human civilizations. It is located in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq). Mesopotamian…

Rome and Persia were both successful empires, but they were both very different in the way their empires worked and expanded. There were some similarities the empires shared such as conquering vast amounts of land, political advancements, and bureaucracy. Despite these similarities, there were much more differences with these two empires. One of the reasons Rome expanded was because of its disciplined military. They could also support their big population with the military, and in their…

battles, Leaders had to use brutal methods to gain control. Humans need access to water and fertile farming ground so early humans usually settled near the water such as the Indus civilization who started their civilization near the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Ancient civilizations usually settled near flood lands which could sometimes lead to death because of the rivers over flowing. Due to a shortage of resources civilizations would fight to conquer each other's land to gain resources.…