Tigris

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…

trade, enabling the Egyptians to obtain valuable resources that may have been scarce. Agricultural development had contributed to the success of all of these nations. The roots of the Assyrian civilization were based on agricultural production. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were of central importance for their agriculture. These rivers were the Assyrian’s key source of irrigation. The civilization implemented systems of levees and canals to ‘trap’ and use water for irrigation. In order to…

A new discovery was released in 2016, when a bulldozer operator in northwestern Oklahoma uncovered a Columbian Mammoth skull. Mammoths lived during the Paleolithic Era beginning 2.6 million years ago until roughly 10,000 YBP. This time period was also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, which was later followed by the current stage we live in today, the Holocene Epoch. According to the sixth threshold, 200,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by neanderthals, (early homo sapiens), which were used as…

The Epic 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…

Five thousand years have passed, almost two centuries before to the Romans build their first mud houses, meawhile Egyptians started making buildings so huge and complex they stay right up 'til the present time among the most great structures ever constructed. For a large number of years, without the advantage of PCs, cranes, trucks or power apparatuses, the Pharaohs' architects administered the development of perfect works of art whose scale, excellence still admires the brain. This is a…

fighting on the coastline and then ultimately landing in Gordium finding the Gordian Knot. Later he moved into Syria. While in Syria, he traveled into Tyre. Finally he led his army into the Persian Empire crushing the Persians crossing the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. He was more than a warlord or conqueror though; he also spread Greek civilization to huge areas of the ancient world and in turn exposed Greece to the knowledge of the conquered lands, giving a huge boost to scholars in both.…

as south as Napata to as far north as Palestine during the New Kingdom. Egypt was also able to push back the Nubians and expand into their soil during the age of the New Kingdom. Ancient Mesopotamians on the other hand only had the land around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers whilst under Sumerian rule. This isn’t even near the amount of land that the Egyptians were controlling during the New Kingdom, but it also must be taken into account that Mesopotamia expanded later under other…

Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban ii called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He form an army and head to Jerusalem, to have a Crusade. Anyone killed on this quest would go to directly to heaven. Some of the first responders were Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whose followers were some of the poor from Germany and France. They would soon destroy the Muslims and the Holy Land. This would…

“Fertile Crescent” or Mesopotamia, in what is now modern day Iraq. From a geographic standpoint, this a perfectly logical area for the Agricultural Revolution to begin, because of the fertile soil the region offers. This valley was also between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, therefore irrigation systems could be set up with ease. The document from The Agricultural Systems of the World by D. B. Grigg summarizes how different cultures around the world utilized agriculture, and changes in…

It was situated on the Euphrates River not far upstream from where the Euphrates and Tigris waterway join. Sarah was the spouse of Abraham. Sarah was roughly ten years more youthful than her significant other Genesis 17:17. She was viewed as wonderful to the point that Abraham expected that when they were close more capable rulers, she would…