how did people create different calendars depending of the culture. Ancient calendars relied upon the apparent motions. As an example the sky determines the season‚months and years. Five thousand years ago Sumerians in the Tigris Euphrates calendar divides .The year into 30 days months. The Mayans Central Americans relied on not any sun and moon but also in the planet Venus who was to establish 260 days and 365 days as calendars.
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Mesopotamia is a region known to be very fertile found in between two rivers‚ river Tigris‚ and river Euphrates. Mesopotamia has significantly contributed to the world’s culture because most things were invented in this place. The invention of tools like the wheel‚ which used rollers‚ allowed carrying heavy loads. The rollers and wheels eventually evolved to become the wheels we currently use in bicycles‚ cars and even in airplanes. People in Mesopotamia were also hunters and gatherers (The Phoenix
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years ago around 3‚000 BC in the Middle East and in North Africa. Geography was a friend on the development of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Geography had a beneficial effect on Mesopotamia and the country’s development. The Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers served as a vital part of the Mesopotamian clan. The rivers were used as a method of bringing freshwater to the farms‚ a system also referred to as irrigation. Another practical use of rivers was for traveling and trading purposes. A rich
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could grow crops for food and farm for animals and their products. All these civilizations where near the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Golf‚ for centuries they were called Mesopotamia. These civilizations were between two rivers‚ Tigris and Euphrates. The Sumer civilization was located in southern Mesopotamia‚ northwestern from the Persian Gulf. The name Sumer comes from the language Akkadian and means “land of the civilized kings”‚ and the citizens
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NATURAL WORLD DETERMINANTS OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY Urban Morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation as well as transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area‚ city‚ town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development. Natural world determinants are one of the two broad categories of the determinants‚ the other being man made determinants. The natural
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Early civilizations often had many similarities in their politics‚ economies‚ and social norms. The civilizations of Mesopotamia‚ or the Fertile Crescent (3000 BCE)‚ and the Nile River Valley (3000 BCE) are prime examples of this‚ but with different geography‚ leaders‚ and resources many differences divided the two nations. Both the Nile River Valley and the Fertile Crescent had authoritarian governments and mainly agricultural economies‚ but the Nile River Valley was much more unified‚ while Mesopotamia’s
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but when you look deeper there were many great nations‚ the Assyrian Empire being one of them. Apart of the Mesopotamia Empire‚ or what is now the Middle East‚ Assyria is located in the northern region. The nation thrives on the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers to keep the land hydrates and fertile. Populated with a mixture of Arabs and Jews‚ the Assyrians are sematic people indigenous to Mesopotamia. Aside from geographical advances the Assyrian Empire is highly accredited for changing many ancient
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Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia both developed in river valleys. These first civilizations in the Middle East‚ Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates and Egypt by the Nile River. They are early civilizations that relied heavily on geographies and their surrounding environment. Mesopotamia featured distinctive cultures and was also the home of the worlds first set of laws. The Egyptian civilization formed near the Nile River and in the Sahara desert‚ so a strong
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Hammurabi’s Code. This major collection of laws gives insight into the social structure and economic organization of the civilization.|18th Century BCE until the 6th Century BCE.|King Hammurabi|South of modern Baghdad‚ Iraq‚ between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.|Slavery | Persians |Common set of weights and measures and a silver and gold coinage system.|560 BCE and lasted until 330 BCE.|The empire was formed from a nomadic people called the Persians and the Medes‚ both distantly related to the Hittites
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Israel will be given the right to exist in the land that was promised to Abraham. This has been proposed by Netanyahu‚ but no decision has been officially made. There will be a war break out in the vicinity of the Euphrates river. The hostilities in this area will continue to increase with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah presence. There have been great numbers of American soldiers lost during the ongoing Iraq war. Judea‚ or the West Bank in Israel‚ will become a place of
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