1. What is the area of the Rhine’s drainage basin? 65‚600 square miles 2. In what direction does the Rhine flow? South to North 3. Where is its source? Switzerland 4. Where is its mouth? North Sea 5. How many countries does it flow through? In Luxemburg and Belgium the river just pass around it but in Switzerland‚ France‚ Germany and The Netherlands. 6. How far can a boat travel up the Rhine from the mouth? For more than 500 miles 7. In what year did the Rhine become an
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civilization adapts their own way of living. Where there is water there is life‚‚ that is the reason why Mesopotamia and Egypt were born next to a river. Mesopotamia means “land between rivers”‚ because it was established in the centrality between of Euphrates and Tigris rivers by the years 3500-1500 B.C.E. On the other hand Egypt was settle next to Nile River and the empire flourished on the year 3100 until 1070 B.C.E. Egypt and Mesopotamia developed a way of agriculture in order to provide food for
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culture‚ as did the Shang‚ but be that as it may‚ they still had much in common as well. The Mesopotamians are one of the first known civilizations to archeologists today. Dating back to 3500 B. C. E. Their society was built in between the Tigris and Euphrates River in the Middle East. In Mesopotamia‚ the more land you had‚ the more power you had. The overarching role of leadership took the form of a lugal. The lugal had control over all the irrigation systems in
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Can you imagine yourself living during the time that WWI was going on? I’m pretty sure you’d be terrified to even walk out of your house. Like it wasn’t bad enough that the whole world was at each other’s throat‚ but to know that your country may be at the hands of another leader. A leader who may have different perspectives on every day life‚ with the benefit of doubt that it may be extremely foreign to you‚ is pretty scary. I’m pretty sure that it would make you or anyone else feel extremely
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Graham Mattison The Bible and Current Events Position Paper on Biblical Topic Dr. Kathleen Corley 11/15/2007 It isn’t the end of the world…yet. Many people believe that we are currently in the end times prophesized in the Bible. Although it would be fairly simple to attach biblical significance to events occurring in our current times‚ it is important to note‚ a great multitude of people‚ throughout the centuries‚ have searched within their own times for signs of the coming apocalypse
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universe and all living things in the span of 7 days. He created Adam and let him reside in the Garden of Eden so they may maintain it. The Garden of Eden has river that flows through it‚ and splits into four headstreams‚ Pishon‚ Gihon‚ Tigris‚ and Euphrates. Soon after‚ God created woman‚ whom we know as Eve. The fall of man followed as Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and God banished them from the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve Gave birth to Abel and Cain‚ Cain killed
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences‚ throughout both of these civilizations from back to 3‚500 B.C. The political and social structures in these civilizations were different and the same in their own way. The political differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia included hierarchy power‚ land control‚ and centralized government. The similarities between both civilizations are social class‚ male patriarchy‚ and kings. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had differences of their political
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of Egypt‚ and also‚ creation of laws. As a God‚ he did rituals and built temples to honor gods. The huge pyramids built by the workers in Egypt where used as tombs to buried the kings (Pharaohs) with their possessions after death. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were a mainly and important occasion of the Mesopotamian civilization because it was the cause of its development. Mesopotamian civilization is mostly better explanatory by dividing it into different periods or ages.
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the flow of human blood in human veins” (Hughes 769). Hughes uses the comparison of a river to connect African Americans to the shared background of all human beings. He explains his ancestors’ existence on the banks of the cradle of civilization Euphrates‚ and reminds his readers that people with black skin ruled vast kingdoms in Africa‚ and built the great pyramids in Egypt. The key word in this quote is “human‚” as Hughes is emphasizing the equality between black and white Americans; they all come
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had the greatest trade routes. Its trade network reached from the sands of Egypt to the deserts in India. Most certainly no civilization in the western world at that time had not heard of the great cultures that existed between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Egypt‚ in itself‚ had an excellent trade route with its access to the Mediterranean sea. Mesopotamia‚ however‚ had trade routes not only in Egypt‚ but in many other locations to the east as well. All previous trade routes had been confined from
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