Mesopotamia and Ancient China Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is the first place where humans formed civilization. Early settlers camped together and started to create villages and towns. Eventually these towns became large cities. They needed law and order so they created a government. There were many civilizations in mesopotamia. Some of them included the Sumerians‚ the Persians‚ the Babylonians‚ the Akkadians‚ and the Assyrians. China China was mostly ruled by dynasties
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The area between the Tigris and Euphrates River was called Fertile Crescent because its rich soil and crescent shape (document 1).This region was where Mesopotamia one of the first civilization on earth grew. Sumer was an ancient civilization in Mesopotamia they created cuneiforms. Cuneiforms were the world’s first written language; Sumerians invented this writing system to keep track of business dealing (document 2). Mesopotamia developed between the Euphrates and Tigris River. Geographically
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Mesopotamia was also known as “the country between two rivers.” (Chilvers‚ 2007) These two rivers that surrounded this fertile land were the Tigris and the Euphrates. I believe that both rivers were one of the significant environmental factors that contributed to the development of the ancient civilization known as Mesopotamia. (Hollar‚ 2011) The Tigris and Euphrates rivers start out in the mountains of Armenia. They are almost parallel to each other until they merge creating the Shatt al-Arab
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therefore a constantly changing pantheon of deities. The deities were also influenced by the sporadic flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ causing the gods to have a violent nature. In the Egyptian region‚ the mountains and deserts provided them with protection from invasions and allowed them to have a constant pantheon of deities. Unlike the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ the flooding of the Nile River was predictable‚ causing the deities to be peacefully natured. Both
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Factors that contributed to the emergence of city-states in Lower Mesopotamia and the influence the landscape played in the formation of the civilization which emerged.<br><br>For this essay I considered the question of what factors contributed to the emergence of city-states in Lower Mesopotamia and the influence the landscape played in the formation of the civilization which emerged. Through my research on this topic I found that there is much evidence to support the claim that landscape was a
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East? Should the water sources of Turkey be shared with other countries of the Middle East?” Water Wealth: Empowering Turkey Politically and Economically in the Middle East Introduction Turkey’s water policy of damming the Euphrates and Tigris is in fact justified because there are water shortages in the Middle East and the world as a whole. This is largely due to massive population growth experienced across the world since the end of World War Two‚ as well as climate change which has created
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political aspects‚ economic aspects‚ religious aspects‚ social aspects‚ intellectual aspects‚ and architectural aspects. In Egyptian society‚ the Nile river was very consistent and predictable with its flooding‚ rather than Mesopotamia‚ where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were very sporadic with their flooding‚ and caused Mesopotamian societies to be very different. One major difference between the Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies‚ was the government. In Egypt‚ there were many peasant villages
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Egyptians felt that since they had such amenable lives‚ the gods and goddesses must be amenable as well and should be worshipped and loved. In contrast‚ while Mesopotamia was centered between two large rivers that also flooded‚ the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates was irregular and violent. The floods often resulted in destroyed cities and dead people and livestock. Because the rivers were destructive and didn’t aid in the process of farming like the Nile‚ fertile farmland was rare‚ causing
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dynasties were prominent examples of this type of ruling. This is similar to Mesopotamia‚ who ruled through organized states which were formal governmental institutions that wielded authority throughout their territories. Mesopotamia had to rely on the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers for their survival. Unlike the Yellow River‚ these two rivers delivered large amounts of freshwater that citizens used to irrigate their crops. However‚ this is similar to the Nile in Egypt‚ which irrigated crops not only
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statement is clear] Geography‚ Climate‚ and Economy Both‚ ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia‚ were considered river valley civilizations. [redundant – you already made this statement] Mesopotamia‚ which is currently Iraq‚ was nestled between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. This is known as “The Fertile Crescent.” Egypt was founded on the banks of the Nile River in what is now the northeast part of Africa. All three of these rivers flooded annually‚ which deposited rich silt into the soil
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