“History of the World in 6 Glasses” By Tom Standage Chapter 2: Civilized Beer 1. The “Land between 2 rivers” is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers located in Mesopotamia (in the Fertile Crescent). “The World’s first cities arose in Mesopotamia‚ ‘the land between the streams‚’ the name given to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers… (24‚ Standage)”‚ which meant that around this area most of the people were hardworking. The problem about these two rivers though is that they had unexpected
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Ryan Bowman 8/19/2012 AP World History 3rd Similarities/Differences of Mesopotamia and Egypt Mesopotamia and Egypt have many similarities and differences in many aspects. Though regionally close‚ Egypt and Mesopotamia had many differences‚ such as social structure and government structure. While both civilizations differed as in social structure of their society and government structure; they also had similar aspects as in cultural development. Comparing the two‚ they both had close advances
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Divinity is the core of all religions and rule most societies. Socialization based on divinity occurs almost everywhere. Most of the acceptable behaviors we have been taught since infancy have religious roots. I will compare and contrast the concepts of divinity in Judaic‚ Sumerian and Hindu culture‚ based on Genesis‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Ramayana of Valmiki‚ respectively. Judging by the literature‚ the Judaic concept of divinity seemed to be both polytheistic and monotheistic. I conclude
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Felicia Cridland Block #3 Coble Chapter 3 & 4 Review Questions: Written Response Questions~ 1) Egyptians 2) 9000 B.C.E. 3) Nile 4) Old Kingdom/Archaic Period 5) Kushites 6) The parallelism between The Indus Valley and The Nile Valley was pretty much the same. 7) Earliest physical remains were and still are pretty much inaccessible and there is a lack of deciphered written records. 8) 40‚000 people 9) The Aryans were Indo-Europeans. 10) Varna or Caste True/False Questions~ 11) True 12) True 13) True
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Ziggurats were concrete‚ man made religious towers. Ziggurats name means “stairway to heaven or the point where heaven and earth met.” According to our introductory reading. Ziggurats were know for the shrine at the top‚ not as much the base beneath it. The 7 story base main purpose is to get the shrine as high as possible‚ to be able to be as close to the city-states god or goddess. I can infer that compared to present day‚ the architectural plans of the Ziggurat were fairly simple. Early Mesopotamians
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Mesopotamia is one of the oldest civilizations known to have been existed‚ formed in 3500 B.C.E. at the start of the Neolithic age of human history. The location of Mesopotamia‚ is what we now call modern day Iraq. The development of civilization in Mesopotamia was helped by the location of the Tigris and Euphrates river‚ a waterway the Mesopotamians greatly relied on. It is fitting to state that Mesopotamia one of the earliest civilizations‚ was the birthplace of the world’s oldest known piece of
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Mesopotamia (1) Some of the Mesopotamia cities were Ur‚ Hatra‚ Samarra‚ Nineveh‚ Lasgash‚ Nasiriyah‚ Assur‚ etc. The people within the cities were well known for the metal work‚ wooden textiles‚ and stoneware. (2) Mesopotamia’s government is known as theocracy‚ it consisted of each city having its own chief‚ working under a single ruler. (3) The Mesopotamia’s religion was polytheistic‚ the people strongly had a belief that the ziggurats connected heaven and earth. The gods or goddesses had
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Ancient Middle East “Cradle of Civilization” The ancient middle east was called the “cradle of civilization” by historians. Why was this? This was because the ancient middle east settled and prospered near two major rivers‚ the Tiberis and the Euphrates and created the very first flourishing civilization. The middle east was broken into two areas. The northern area was called Mesopotamia and the southern area was called Babylon. In these areas a new civilization arose called the Sumerian civilization
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There are many similarities that characterize the two governments of Egypt and Mesopotamia. For example‚ both civilizations had manuscripts and inscriptions. These were written down to make sure that civilians would understand‚ follow‚ and obey their laws. These law writers were called Scribes. Their job would be writing things down. Sometimes‚ there were the only people in the land who were literate. This way‚ when people were caught disobeying a law‚ they could not escape the consequences. Also
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Where would you go if you were given the chance to travel back in time? Well that was my great fortune when given this assignment from my boss at the Smithsonian Magazine. The Pangeaic Historical Standards Board requested an Archeological Journalist to travel back in time to interview and investigate the work of one of the greatest archeologists of the 20th century. What an honour! I chose to travel back to archaeology’s heyday‚ the 1920’s‚ and interview internationally renowned archeologist Sir
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