because of its good soil and its golden wheat fields. Within the Fertile Crescent was a region called Mesopotamia that the ancient Greeks had named later. This meant “between the rivers” where it was located it was between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. In this area the world’s first civilization arose in Southeastern Mesopotamia and it was Sumer. The Nile rises in the highlands of Ethiopia and the lakes of Central Africa. The Sumerians over time started to study the stars and make out the
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Magog: nations fail in confusion in their attempt to destroy isreal. 7 mo to burry dead‚ maybe mainland China? • Seven Bowls of Judgment: 1-sores‚ 2-sea life destroyed‚ 3-water to blood‚ 4-sun’s heat amplified‚ 5-darkness and pain‚ 6-drying of Euphrates river‚ 7- hailstones • The Battle of Armageddon: demons influence world leaders to try to destroy Isreal and God‚ Triumphant return of Christ marks the conclusion of the Tribulation Is the False Prophet a Jew? How do we know the answer to
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Tourism is the mainstay of the economy in the Middle East. Middle East countries have many beautiful tourist spots‚ which are visited by millions of tourists annually from all over the world. Tourism in the Middle East is not limited to entertainment and natural places‚ but also includes archaeological‚ historical‚ cultural‚ and religious tourism‚ which are the most important tourist attractions in the world. Jordan is a small country with an area of 89.97 million square kilometers‚ including
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The Neolithic period cultivated important material conditions that directly influenced the formation of large towns‚ great cities‚ and states in the later‚ Uruk period of Mesopotamia. These influences can be seen at the earlier site of Catalhoyuk. As the periods shift between Neolithic and the Uruk‚ drastic changes can be seen between early egalitarian societies in the Neolithic period‚ and the more complex and massive societies of the Uruk period. Other material conditions that shaped the complex
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craftsmen and scribes. A small group of people were nobles. Together‚ these different groups of people made up the population of ancient Egypt. Ancient Sumer The first civilization is thought to have arisen in Mesopotamia‚ between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. In an area known as Sumeria‚ people built huts‚ raised cattle‚ and farmed for their food. They built huge temples (called ziggurats) and monuments in their cities. They were the first to gather in large city-states. Among these were Kish
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem written on stone tablets between 2700 B.C. and around 600 B.C. The Author is an ancient authors of stories that compose poems that are anonymous. This poem is epic and the genre is heroic. All languages were written in cuneiform script. Tablet XI of Gilgamesh was translated and published in 1872.The point of view of this story is third person .Most of the story is told from Gilgamesh and Utnapishtim narrates the flood story in tablet XI. The major conflict of the story
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Festus Boateng Hour 4 Are we Rome? The “empire” of The United States Of America is prone to a disastrous fall similar to the former greatest empire of the Romans due to the fact that the US empire was built in a similar way like the Roman empire and is now starting to encounter problems ranging from Social‚ Political‚ Economics‚ and lastly military wise. A social way of how the Roman empire fell was due to the rise of christianity because it eroded the traditional roman beliefs
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years ago and was ruler of a kingdom called Babylonia for 42 years. When he was in power‚ he ruled over approximately 1‚000‚000 people. When Hammurabi took power in 1792 B.C.E. he was king of most of Mesopotamia‚ the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In his 38th year of power‚ Hammurabi was instructed by the “god” of justice‚ Shamash‚ to have a Code of Law carved on a stone stele‚ (a large pillar-like stone). Hammurabi had 282 laws (BGE)‚ but the real question is‚ were they just? No‚
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were all geographically distant societies. Was this good or bad? In a way this was extremely well because with such distance everyone settled in a geographically good spot where they developed an economy. The people of Mesopotamia settled between Euphrates and Tigris and its rivers‚ roughly including modern Iraq and part of Syria. Early settlers of fertile land in Mesopotamia used wooden plows to moderate the soil before planting crops such as barley‚ onions‚ grapes‚ turnips‚ and apples. The Egyptians
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3. Define the term civilization. Discuss and evaluate the different approaches of your textbook and the lectures to this issue. Support your discussion with specific examples from the early histories of Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ and China. • Civilization: Civilization is the state of condition of persons living and functioning
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