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    Messopotamian Irrigation Systems By isa Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without irrigation systems? Without the ancient Mesopotamians we may not have had irrigation systems today. Mesopotamia was among the first civilizations to build a irrigation system. Mesopotamians had a very sophisticated irrigation system. They started by digging out a wide trench for the water to flow through. The next step was to build smaller ditches to their crops. Then they built walls to control

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     Temple   AP World History  19 September‚ 2014  Egypt and Mesopotamia: Comparing and Contrasting (Final Draft)  Around 6‚000 years ago‚ the ingredients necessary for civilization began to form  independently from one another in several different places around the Earth. Two of the most  famous and foremost of the early civilizations were Egypt and Mesopotamia. Egypt and  Mesopotamia were fundamentally different in their religious beliefs and slightly different in their  formation of city states versus unified states

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    In the land of modern day Iraq‚ lies the location of one of the earliest records of civilization‚ land that was and is still known as Mesopotamia. The people of this land were known as Sumerians‚ who originated from the east around 5000 BCE (Adler‚ et al). The Sumerians were one of the first to develop many things that would play a part in influencing other cultures as well as modern civilization. They were the first to create city-states‚ develop a sophisticated system of writing‚ a basic sense

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    Valleys- a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: site of several ancient civilizations 2. Egypt in the Nile River- an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and the area from Cairo S to the Sudan (Upper Egypt). 3. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley- The civilization of the Indus River at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa arose at about 2500 BCE and ended with apparent destruction about 1500 BCE.

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    When you think about Mesopotamia and Egypt you may think that they are very different. They are‚ but they also have many similarities and differences as well. Both of these societies have done things that have effected the way we live today. One similarity is they were both polytheistic‚ meaning that they believed in many gods. Another similarity is the both had their own writing system. Two differences they have are their feelings about the afterlife and their rivers. A similarity between

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    Introduction: The textbook is broken down in fourteen chapters and begins with a definition of terms. Those fourteen chapters consist of each having five sections with over twenty historical images. The author provides the audience an appendix of images used in this published work as well as gives his acknowledgements accompanied by a list of abbreviations. The author uses several contemporary studies as a big part of his research as well as reviews the ancient and Near Eastern and Israelite

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    Comparing Egypt and Mesopotamia Dating back to 3‚500 B.C. these two ancient cultures had many similarities and differences. These two ancient civilizations portrayed many similarities and differences in their cultures. The two similarities between Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture are religion and the practice in polytheism‚ and agriculture and the how Egypt and Mesopotamia relied greatly on rivers for their irrigation. The one major difference between Egyptian and Mesopotamian society is social

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    is getting in the minds of the people living back then. No one can completely understand the full effect of a regions geography on the shaping of civilization. The only way we can fully comprehend a civilizations reliance on geography is by reading into it. Through documents and maps we can start to understand the impact geography had on a civilizations economical‚ spiritual and agriculture development. Agricultural is the easiest thing to crack when trying to figure out the development of a city

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    The Fertile Crescent‚ the area spanning from the iran-iraq border Lebanon‚ Israel‚ Jordan and turkey (McKay‚ p.16) and was believed to be the home of some of the earliest civilizations in known history (McKay‚ p.34).Out of these civilizations‚ the city of Uruk is considered one of the most important civilizations in Mesopotamia at the time (Mark‚ Definition). Believed to have been founded by the king Enmerkar sometime around 4500 BCE (Mark‚ Definition)‚ this great city was a pioneer for many things

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    Sumerian‚ Judaic‚ and Greek Cultures The Sumerians emerged approximately 3000 to 2500 B.C. in a region known as the "Fertile Crescent" located between the Euphrates and Tigris River and were considered by most historians to be the world’s first civilization. During this period of time‚ a form of writing was established known as cuneiform. It was from this form of writing that we discovered a great epic known as Gilgamesh and became enlightened about the Man to God relationship of the Sumerian culture

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