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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates and site of several ancient civilizations.
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What is an example of movement in Mesopotamia?
a example is that since it was a long time ago the people of Mesopotamia didn't have tools to make cars or a vehicle expect canoes so they used to canoes for movement.
What did ancient Damascus have a lot of?
It was located in an area with fertile land and abundant water which led to growing productivity which could support an emerging civilisation.
How did irrigation make cities possible?
It's not irrigation only, it's general improvements in farming efficiency.
Humans started out as (semi) nomadic hunters-gatherers.
Living like that, it took quite a lot of land to sustain each person.
We simply couldn't lump together much w/o starving.
Then farming was invented. Farming meant that we could get much more food out of each bit of land. We could move closer together.
Some people could even grow more food than they needed themselves.
Meaning they could trade what they didn't eat for something else.
Meaning someone else maybe didn't have to farm at all, and could concentrate on making thing to trade with instead.
And if you don't need to farm, then you can live real close to other people.
And the cities were born.
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Irrigation allowed cities to build through economic success. Irrigation got water to the farms, the farms then sold the food in bulk to other countries, earning money and allowing city growth. -Drak
Which readily available water resource was crucial to the development of Mesopotamia?
the Tigris River and the Euphrates River
Why did empires start in the Fertile Crescent?
There are two main reasons for this.
1) Early Civilization: The Fertile Crescent, specifically Mesopotamia, was one of the earliest places where settlement began. The presence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers provided the substantial amounts of water needed to grow crops. Incidentally, several important grains such as barley, wheat, spelt, and bulghur and several important forms of livestock such as cows/oxen, sheep, goats, and horses were in the Middle East. This made it a very productive area early on.
2) Topographical Flatness: Central and southern Mesopotamia is more or less flat-land with very few forests or overgrowth. This makes it very easy for an army to easily see defensive positions and overtake them. By contrast, hills, mountains, and forests are good defensive terrain which can be used to stall or counter-attack an imposing army. It is no accident that most societies in mountainous or densely wooded areas are those who escaped the grasp of major civilizations until the modern era.
Did the Mesopotamians go to war?
Yes, they often fought against each other in disputes over land and water rights. However the absorption of the area into successively the Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian and Parthian empires meant that the wars they were involved in were directed by the emperor of the time.
What need first led sumerians to develop a form of writing?
Launguage is a key part to a civilization so the need to communicate was propably what led to the formation of a language.
What day did the Arab nations attack Israel?
The Arab nations formally declared War on Israel on the 19th of May 1948, the day after Israel declared its independence.
no... Jamaica is an island so it is basically not on a coast... it is a coast.
Were all Ziggurats built in Mesopotamia?
No. Some were built in western Persia such as Tepe Sialk and Chogha Zanbil.
How do judaism Christianity and Islam differ from the sumerians and egyptians?
They are the major religions
What are the different writing systems of sumerians the egyptians and the israelites?
The writing system of the Egyptians were hieroglyphics. Sumerians wrote with the style of cuneiform. I am not sure what the type of writing the Israelites wrote with. Hope this helps!
What was the first ancient world civilization?
The first civilization of Greece was the Minoan Civilization located on the island of Crete.
What was the extent of Mesopotamian civilization?
It extended through the Tigris-Euphrates River basins.
Its time extent began in with the Pre/Proto historical period of about 10,000 BCE. The classical period was 6th Century BCE (Persian) to 2nd Century CE (Roman).
