Donor Letter To Mesopotamian Marshlands

Technology has advanced immensely over 10 million years and very much shapes our society today. When a natural disaster occurs, even though our technology allows us to minimize loss and damages, they are still terrifying and catastrophic. One can only imagine the fear and devastation a culture like Mesopotamia would suffer after a flood. Being close to rivers helped the Mesopotamians thrive technologically and economically. The rivers also however provided great distraught and devastation when they would flood.

It states,” When the [Nile] arises earth rejoices and all men are glad… That givest drink to the desert places which are far from water.” The Nile gave people a source of happiness and gave deserts water even though far away. Document 2 is a map of where Mesopotamia used to be. The maps show how close they were to a desert but can still survive with the help of the rivers.

It is undeniable that the natural environment of ancient Mesopotamia had a profound effect on the earliest civilizations known to the world. Humankind’s ability to control irrigation waters directly correlates with the rise of mass agriculture. With this mastery of their river environment, early farmers were capable of supporting large urban populations. However, in Mesopotamia the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were both a source of life as well as destruction for early societies. In many ways, the geography of ancient Mesopotamia fostered a sense of catastrophic determinism within the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians. The scarcity of resources as well as the untamable nature of their deluge environment led these early people to

In the later years of Northern Mesopotamia civilization, the climate changed dramatically causing the collapse of several states in the region. Volcano eruptions, increased degree of dryness, and other changes in the climate destroyed the agriculture in the area causing people to relocate to other states. This article solidifies the view that environmental changes are the only reason states formed in certain regions in the first place.

Egypt and Mesopotamia were two civilizations existing during the time period of 2000-1200 BCE. These civilizations were shaped by their environment, involved with trade, and faced changes in government after the 100 year drought; however, they differed in that Egypt was shaped by the Nile, traded goods for goods and changed their outlook on the pharaoh who was ruler of all; whereas, Mesopotamia was shaped by the Tigris and Euphrates, traded money for goods, and had a ruler over rulers. It is undeniable that the natural environment of ancient Mesopotamia had a profound effect on the earliest civilizations known to the world. Humankind’s ability

Egyptians and Mesopotamians had the greatest advances in medicine during the ancient, but Egyptians were better at medicine than Mesopotamians. While we know that Mesopotamians astronomers had a very high reputation, Egyptians had a wide reputation when it came to their doctors. Egyptian doctors are in high demand, and some kings even had Egyptian doctors working for them. Egyptians had cure for constipation, and had an understanding of how to deal with infected cuts. They used methods such as using moldy bread, which we know is good, because mold is able to kill of some forms of bacteria.

The ancient lands of Mesopotamia are unknown territory for many people. It is one of the earliest civilizations in the world. The first great civilization, located between Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was developed in 3500 BC. Word “Mesopotamia” is derived from two Greek words meaning ‘land between two rivers’. The region is a vast, dry plain through which two great rivers flow. People of Mesopotamia were ‘Sumerians’. Tigris and Euphrates created fertile river basins for the region. World’s first cities grew up in Mesopotamia. The people of Mesopotamia were among the first to use the written words and a language of their own. Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization”. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers provided rich fruitful soil and

The historical land of Mesopotamia significantly contributed to early civilization in relation to its close proximity to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and rich fertile land it provided. The rivers offered the people of Mesopotamia fertile soil, irrigation water for crops and fishing, and also supplied an abundance of wild barley and wheat for food or could stored as a food supply.

Our organization Nature Iraq does very important work to support the Mesopotamian Marshlands. Our work has changed the environment for the better, we hope you understand all we have done for the marshlands after you are done reading this letter. For thousands of years, the Iraqi marshlands influenced the culture and traditions of the Arabs by continuing to provide them with resources such as reeds, fish, and freshwater.

Historically called “Garden of Eden,” the Mesopotamian wetlands or marshes of Southern Iraq. Which was a home to a vibrant ecosystem for over five decades, it used to be the biggest wetland ecosystem of the western Eurasia. It is a rare amphibious landscape in the middle of the desert, the mentioned ecosystem was

Our organization Nature Iraq does really important work to support the Mesopotamian Marshlands. Our work has changed the environment for the better. For thousands of years, the marshlands influence the culture by us using what we had around us in our environment like reeds to build most of our belongings. Some examples of this are our houses, little rafts, etc. One other way we have been influenced by the environment is that we had learned to catch our own fresh fish and sell them for money. Since in the Marshlands we don’t have roads we learned to build boats and rafts and we use those as types of transportation and for collecting reeds and food. The Marshlands has provided with a source of power and fresh water.

Control of the Tigris and Euphrates was key to developments in Mesopotamia. The rivers frequently rose in terrifying floods that washed away topsoil and destroyed

Our organization Nature Iraq does really important work to support the Mesopotamian Marshlands. Our work has changed the environment for the better. For thousands of years, the marshlands influenced the culture by, Giving people creatures underwater to hunt, giving people canals and routes to immigrate, and enabling people to hunt for food and for shops as well. These marshlands were enabling 250,000 people to survive. They could probably even support more than that considering how lenient they are on nature.

Having water everywhere in site. Everything that the Arabs do involve water. They use transportation with boats, growing crops, fishing and many more. The marshlands influenced the Arabs to use water to their advantage and not let it slow them down. They decided to use the water to their advantage grow crops. Growing is a need in the marshlands because they can grow crops to eat but the Arabs weave so they need string but they don't have string so they go to reads. Reads aren't something you can make. Without the reads they can't make baskets to trade. Trading is a job so with out reads there someone in need of a job and then there's the person who needs to make the reads which is another job. So basically if their is no water then reads can’t

Through the archeological discoveries, we can infer some details into the lives of the people who originated in the cities of Mesopotamia. The root word of Mesopotamia refers to ‘between rivers’, this infers to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, figure 1. Because the environment influenced people to settle, we can see a change in their political, social, and economic structure as they begin to form a complex society. This is the period where we see a complex engineering system as people started to develop canals and other technologies for a more efficient agricultural development. An early culture to settle in the lowlands of Mesopotamia were the Hassuna culture, their civilization were characterized by “small settlements with a few hundred inhabitants, who lived in rectangular houses with several rooms” (Feuerbach, 2015). Another culture to settle in this area were the Samarran culture; even