Tigris

one city into conflict with the leader of another, and skirmishes and open war sometimes ensued. Control of the northern part of the city of Kish, whose rulers may at times have also exerted a degree of authority in the south. Akshak, located on the Tigris; Mari,…

Geography also played a large role in cultural diffusion and how different regions interacted with each other. For the Mesopotamians, whose agriculture, architecture and overall outlook on life was heavily impacted by the unpredictable flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates’s rivers, the impact of the two river’s was a negative one. One of the few benefits of the flooding was the water made their soil uniquely fertile, but before they built irrigation systems the flooding would wipe out any…

At the end of the last ice age, animals and people gathered around the great river valleys, like Egypt and Mesopotamia. When the number of animals decreased, agriculture began. Herodotus remarked that Egypt is the gift of the Nile which provided annual floods water and the alluvial deposits. The groups of farmers, villages and clans, near the Nile, were united around higher authorities. According to Ponting, This was the first step for incorporation to civilization which was followed by growth,…

In march of 2011, the civil war that is changing millions of Syrian Lives had begun. What initiated with several anti-government protests has now become into a brutal war for democracy. More than 250,000 have died, 1.2 million have fled the country, and more than 6.5 million people are trapped inside war bound Syria (‘’Syria: The story of the conflict’’) . Although many of the refugees have fled to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; the UN has safely relocated many others…

Throughout history a noticeable pattern has been displayed in which a civilization is impacted by the surrounding geographical features. The geography of a civilization can affect its culture, religion, politics, and even architecture. Geography can also form natural borders for protection and natural highways for travel. Natural features can greatly impact a civilization, and Ancient Egypt proves to be no exception to this trend. Located in northeast Africa, Egypt is bordered to the north by…

Today the site of Ur is known as Tall al Muqayyar (Arabic for “mound of pitch”) and is approximately 160 miles from the head of the Persian Gulf. During Abraham’s day, Ur was located very close to the Persian Gulf at a strategic point where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers merged into the gulf. However, over the past several hundred years, large amounts of sediment carried…

civilization on a biblical level. The filmed grabbed my attention by opening my eyes to how many things I already knew about before watching the film. The documentary opened by talking about the Garden of Eden and its location in regards to the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. It was interesting that for the many years I spent growing up in a…

Both territories had sufficient water sources that made their lands rich in soil and crops. Mesopotamia had two rivers, Tigris and the Euphrates that were much shorter than the Nile in Egypt, but still gave them rich soils. Egypt of course had the Nile, as well as they had ample sunlight due the African climate, which they gave due credit to Ra. Egypt’s source of water was…

In schools in the city of Sumer, only a few boys went to school and there were mostly no girls. In their schools, the kids would most likely grow up to be scribes. One of the main reasons city-states fought was to gain the precious waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They made their walls from thick mud bricks so no one can destroy them and attack the city. The ancient Sumerians were among the first to develop writing. Because they left written records, the legacy of Mesopotamia has not…

About 5,000 years ago in the land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers, city-states started to appear. These early Mesopotamian cities engaged in form of socialism, where farmers contributed their crops to storehouses by which workers, such as metalworkers or builders, were able to excel on their particular expertise. The Mesopotamian hallmarks the beginning of the first complex urban societies. Between 3400-3200 BCE, the Sumerians, city of Sumer, were technologically advanced, literate and…