RIVER CIVILIZATIONS 1. Mesopotamia: First and longest civilization in the world Government Type: Combination of monarchy and democracy Law and order Sumerian Laws: Sumerian laws were not written down‚ but people knew what they were and they knew what could happen to you if you broke the law. Babylonian Laws: The laws that were later written down by the ancient Babylonians were‚ for the most part‚ laws first created by the ancient Sumerians. Achievements: Pythagoras’ Law and 360 degree circle
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Around 150 BC‚ Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire.In AD 226‚ it fell to the Sassanid Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire. Many rulers self-declared themselves rulers from 5000-3500 BCE. So while romantic love did play a part in Mesopotamian marriages‚ it is true that‚ according to the customs and expectations of Mesopotamian society‚ marriage was a legal contract between the father of a girl and another
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IS genocide of Assyrians Imagine being driven from your house and on the way out‚ anything of value that you own is taken from you. As you are leaving your sister is kidnapped as a slave and the neighbors down the street have been shot. This is the plight of the Assyrian Christians‚ who are descendants of the Assyrian empire and the only native group in northern Iraq‚ and the Yazidis who believe in an ancient religion and live in southern Syria. They are being persecuted by the Islamic State (IS)
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THE WORLD’S OLDEST CUISINE? Who invented the world’s oldest cuisine? If you said your grandmother‚ you are incorrect. Many believed it was the Roman’s who created the world’s oldest cuisine but experts say evidence of ancient cuneiform tablets were discovered‚ leading to believe culinary traditions from early civilizations in Ancient Mesopotamia. Such cuneiform tablets feature more than two dozen recipes for meat‚ fowl‚ broths‚ and vegetables‚ pies‚ flavored with various herbs and spices. And
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Mesopotamian villages and towns eventually evolved into independent and nearly self-sufficient city-states. Although largely economically dependent on one another‚ these city-states were independent political entities and retained very strong isolationist tendencies. This isolationism hindered the unification of the Mesopotamian city-states‚ which eventually grew to twelve in number. By 3000 B.C.‚ Mesopotamian civilization had made contact with other cultures of the Fertile Crescent (a term first
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Why is Mesopotamia interesting? Mesopotamia is interesting because of it’s weather and climate. Mesopotamia’s Weather is semiarid and hot but the climate is extremely fertile perfect for growing crops. The geography of Mesopotamia has a lot of wood and water and other resources for use. Mesopotamia has a lot of climate resources and geography resources that need to be studied. Mesopotamian’s had a lot beautiful trees‚ plants‚ and flowers also Mesopotamian’s climate was interesting because of it
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The Plate with King Hunting Rams is a brilliant piece of metallurgy from the Sassanid era of Persia‚ around 5-6th century CE. It was made from silver‚ mercury gilding and niello inlay in the Qazvin region in what is now Iran. The plate depicts an unknown Sassanid King (either Peroz or Kavad I) hunting down a group of rams. It shows the prowess and desired image of the king as well as the cultural divide and influence of the society at the time. Through its use of curvature‚ color‚ and shape‚ the
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During King Nebuchadnezzar II’s reign in 630 B.C. to 561 B.C.‚ he ordered the construction of The Ishtar Gate‚ one of eight gateways into Babylon‚ a city in what we now call Iraq. The gate’s name comes from Ishtar‚ the goddess of love and war. Years later‚ during 1899 to 1917‚ Robert Koldewey and his team‚ excavated the Ishtar Gate. The Ishtar gate was reconstructed in the 1930s‚ and currently resides at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Ishtar Gate stood 46ft high‚ and 100ft wide; built mainly
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Attitudes Towards Animals in Neolithic and Assyrian Times Animals have been viewed differently by different cultures. This is evident when comparing the wall painting of a deer hunt from the Neolithic period (Gardner‚ 38) and the reliefs of Ashurbanipal hunting lions and the dying lions from the Assyrian dominated period of the ancient near east (Gardner‚ 56). The deer hunt scene‚ painted at Catal Huyuk c. 5750 BC‚ depicts several humans hunting two large deer and one small deer. The reliefs
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A number of reports by academicians and practitioners all over the world have called significant change in the accounting methods and research and their relevance in the 21st century. Many believe that the accounting model is outdated with little relevance to the changes taken place in the wider world. Both the academicians and practitioners agree that if accounting is to serve a useful role in the changing environment‚ accounting education and accounting research should become more broader‚ dynamic
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