express the source and significance of the Fertile Crescent to man’s greatest intellectual inventions‚ and explain why certain countries prosper and other countries were unable to develop during this era. In today’s society‚ the year 2009‚ it is evident that crops‚ animals‚ human ideas and concepts‚ and inventions from the Fertile Crescent have proliferated throughout the world. In the beginning‚ 13‚000 years ago‚ the origin of the fertile crescent in the Middle East‚ not only provided significant
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Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King
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Mesopotamia‚ the land between the rivers‚ derives its name and existence from the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These two rivers created the Fertile Crescent in the midst of surrounding inhospitable territory. The space we call Mesopotamia is roughly the same as that of the modern country of Iraq. About ten thousand years ago‚ the people of this area began the agricultural revolution. Instead of hunting and gathering their food‚ they domesticated plants and animals‚ beginning with the sheep. They
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Stone Age (10‚000-3‚000 B.C.)‚ characterized by the development of agriculture and the use of stone tools. How do shifts in food production impact other cultural changes in a society? (It shifts the way human societies are organized.) The Fertile Crescent was home to the world’s first farming communities. The shift from hunting and gathering to farming and herding brought a corresponding shift in human social organization. As a result of this Neolithic Revolution‚ the world’s first civilizations
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Chapter 10: In the Fertile Crescent‚ plants and animals spread quickly into Europe and North Africa. Innovations such as written language and wheels spread similarity quickly as well. People used domesticated crops rather than those that grew naturally. This shows that people easily adapted the Fertile Crescent’s food production. Chapter 10: Eurasia has covered the largest East to West area of any continent. Diamond believes that this is yet another r advantage for Eurasia. Eurasia had “amber
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Mesopotamia all made key contributions to future societies. For thousands of years‚ people all over the world have developed‚ progressed‚ and eventually formed civilizations. 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
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were a major factor in the defeat of the Incas. Because of where the Spaniards were in Europe they did a lot of trading and was able to become a more advanced culture then the Incas. Chapter 4 Having fertile land allows you to grow food and support people like bureaucrats and chiefs which allowed the Europeans around the fertile crescent would have better technology. Having land that can support animals helps because from these animals you can produce food‚ clothing and the animals can also provide
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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climate which affects the type of food a civilization can grow‚ and what type of animals it can domesticate. Domesticated animals and efficient crops give a civilization time to develop new ideas and invent tools that can help the dominate other cultures. Geographic location affects how a civilization can develop because depending on where you live the climate is different. This allows people in one location to grow better and more nutritious food
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The first civilizations began near the fertile banks of rivers such as the Nile. Farming allowed for the development of the first civilizations and the development of their cultures. For example in Egypt the flooding of the Nile was predictable‚ this allowed for the Egyptians to develop systems such as irrigation to help with farming. This led Egyptians to believe in an afterlife where they will be in fields of food. However in the Fertile Crescent the floods were unpredictable this led to crop
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