Tigris

religion, writing, government, social structure, and art. Each of these characteristics were demonstrated through the game. These characteristics are what make up a civilization. Ancient Mesopotamia was located within the Fertile crescent, in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Civilizations from Ancient Mesopotamia invented many different things. For example, the Sumerian civilization created Ziggurats. Ziggurats were pyramids with temples at the top for priests and kings to worship the…

In this video a team attempts to rebuild the flood boat of Noah, utilizing inscriptions from ancient clay tablets. From the book of genius of the bible, God asked Noah to build a boat. It is stated that this was a platform for ultimate disasters. But they questioned where did the idea come from, Based on antique tablet, far older than the bible it retailing a story far different than that of Noah’s. The idea is that of a basket boat, to recreate this vessel they travelled to marsh lands of…

The period between 4000 – 3500 BC was were the civilization began during the Mesopotamian Era. The people of Mesopotamia lived between the Tigris and Euphrates River where they developed government and learned how to write. The first library was derived from this time where they created clay tablets to record events and create stories tales. One of the most famous mythical poems that was written in clay tablet was The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem that was created by the…

During the late Republic Period, the Roman empire had begun to reach the height of its powers. With the increasing wealth that they gained from conquering neighboring countries, the Romans launched a series of city beautification and engineering projects. They made many contributions to the modern world such as the model structure of the government that had become the basis for modern U.S. and European law. The intention of their law had been based on a foundation that stated that one eternal…

White Tigers have evolved due to genetic variation. Some people might think, that the white tiger is its own species, but it is not. The white tiger is not an albino form, although some people might think it is it’s actually a different form of Bengal Tiger. The reason, that you never hear of a white tiger being from a Bengal tiger is simple, our minds just don’t think like that. Our minds, well some of the human’s minds go to the fact that a white tiger has got to be its own species. The white…

Dodman presents the overall statement to determine the underlying cause of any form of aggression, the “absence of appropriate socialization and bonding in early life, cats will display an impressive range of wild cat behaviors” (92). Because domesticated cats share a plethora of genes within their genome as a tiger’s genome, they can revert to their wild instincts. Following their wild instincts lays the foundation for the common feral cat. Dodman explores a feral cat’s perspective as he…

Ancient Near East is a general term that holds geographical territory, religion beliefs and living conditions of early civilizations established within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East five thousand years ago: Mesopotamia and Egypt. These Ancient Eastern civilizations are considered the cradle of modern civilization; they were the origin of many civilization features as agriculture practice, government, empires and law codes, social stratification, urbanism, writing…

Literary and artistic practices have long since given us an idea about the practices and culture within ancient civilizations, that we are still attempting to discover information today. Two civilizations that we have received the most knowledge about through their written text are Mesopotamia and Egypt. For the Egyptian perspective, The Instructions of Merikare, a letter addressed from a father to a son about how to be an effective pharaoh, is able to be analyzed to determine facts about…

La’Dreamer Jones Dr. Hermann 9.27.16 Egypt and Mesopotamia are two of the oldest river-valley civilizations. Egypt and Mesopotamia are different when it comes to their religious, political, and cultural systems but they still possess some similarities. Egypt as well as Mesopotamia was ruled by a king, however the political system was structured differently. The similarities and differences of these civilizations are the reasons why they may have thrived or fallen in particular areas of having…

During the course of this semester, we have been focusing on the earliest civilizations and what they have contributed to our society today. Although Mesopotamia (Sumerians) and Mesoamerica (Olmecs) are relatively near each other and there are numerous similarities, they still had distinct differences. Mesoamerica was more advanced than Mesopotamia despite the fact that archaeologists have found limited evidence. While the Sumers had a not-so-whopping population of 18,000 per city, the Olmecs…