Chapter One: From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations Name: Anapaula Lopez Date: Period: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences INTRODUCTION How long have human species existed? Human beings have some drawbacks Human beings have several distinctions Def: Paleolithic or Old Stone Age Evolution: Homo erectus Newest human breed: Homo sapiens sapiens Faced constraints Improvements Def: Culture (Migration)
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“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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Northeastern section along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that lead to the Persian Gulf Rainfall is scant Generated large food surpluses = population growth and village expansion + increased trade and job specialization It was so flat it was as open to invasion Fertile Crescent Between the northern hills and the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula‚ running from the eastern Mediterranean coast to the plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Tigris and Euphrates River The river overflows Sumer’s banks
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Discus the early development of urban architecture in the ancient Near East‚ with specific reference to one or two cities in the ‘Fertile Crescent.’ The history of civilization has been one of the most significant fields of study for a very long time. After the agriculture revolution the number of population grow rapidly‚ civilizations were formed and cities were being built to accommodate the growing populations of the ancient civilization. Architecture has always been a vital part of the
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treaties‚ taxing records‚ recipe for beer) o political structures o social structure (patriarchal‚ monarch‚ subjects) o religion o technology • Four initial centers‚ clustered in key river valleys. o Middle East – Mesopotamia‚ Tigris & Euphrates o Egypt – Nile o northwestern India – Indus‚ Harappa o
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Arabian Sea close present-day Karachi‚ Pakistan. Alexander sent piece of his armed force on board 150 boats‚ under the charge of NEARCHUS‚ on an undertaking westward along the bank of the Arabian Sea the extent that the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers at the leader of the Persian Gulf. He headed whatever is left of his armed force through the desert district of southern Baluchistan again to the Mesopotamian urban communities of Susa and Babylon. The overland excursion was laden with hardship;
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killing of Humbaba‚ Lord of the Cedars. I think Humbaba is a symbol for nature that must be tamed if humanity’s civilization is to grow. “While Gilgamesh felled the first of the trees of the forest Enkidu cleared their roots to the banks of the Euphrates.” This sounds to me like clearing of a forest in the name of progress. It seems like they are making the land suitable for use by humans for farming. No regard is given for the forest‚ the animals that live in the forest or any future implications
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used in the construction of the walls and towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon)‚ and a pitch spring on Zacynthus.[32] Great quantities of it were found on the banks of the river Issus‚ one of the tributaries of the Euphrates. Ancient Persian tablets indicate the medicinal and lighting uses of petroleum in the upper levels of their society. In the 1850s‚ the process to distill kerosene from petroleum was invented by Ignacy Łukasiewicz‚ providing a cheaper alternative
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such as the making of plows‚ to help make their work easier that worked with animals‚ mathematics; hieroglyphics. Metal weapons were developed for the villages to protect their valuable resources. The most important resource was the Nile‚ Tigris-Euphrates‚ Yellow‚ and Indus Rivers. The rivers were very important because there were floods that helped to provide the fertile soil for survival. Helped farmers get the water they needed to get on their fields during the dry season. This resulted in an irrigation
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Ancient Canaan was not a “No-Man’s” but rather an “Any-Man’s” land. Situated between the Nile River Valley and the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley it served as common ground for the movements (socioeconomic and military) of other important and powerful civilizations. Its fate‚ repeatedly influenced by that of the Egyptians‚ rose and fell with the events of their neighbors. The relative peace in Egypt during the Old Kingdom era (2575-2100 B.C.E) left Canaan to be a loose quiet place with locally based
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