The City Of Baghdad During The Middle Age

Mesopotamia, “the Land between Rivers,” was one of the greatest and the oldest ancient civilizations of the world. This civilization flourished around 3000 B.C. on the piece of fertile land, now known as Iraq, between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Before 1792 B.C., the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia were not united and constantly clashed in turmoil and warfare. In 1792 B.C., King Hammurabi conquered and merged the neighboring city states of ancient Mesopotamia, creating a Babylonian empire and becoming the sixth king of its capitol city, Babylon. During his reign, Hammurabi established law and order and funded irrigation, defense, and religious projects. He personally took care of and governed the administration. In

In Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom is seen as one of its finest ages. This is because it

Starting their empire in 750 C.E., the Abbasids were certain to leave a major impact on the Arab world. The Abbasids had moved the empire’s capital to Baghdad, from Damascus, after gaining control. The empire had spanned across three continents and was drenched with many open ideas, as the empire had been widely involved in trade. Being spanned over such a vast array of land, the Abbasids had many ideas in front of them, and they were capable of drawing out the best of those from the areas in which they had conquered. These ideas were not even from extensive trade routes that they had carved out themselves, but they had just used the ones that were established by the Persians, before the Umayyad Dynasty had taken them over. Through somewhat minimal work, this empire was capable

Islam absorbed ideas and technology from other cultures that used the trade routes. If rulers of these cities, Caliphates, used this knowledge to their advantage it would stabilize and strengthen the Islamic Empire.

across the lands were welcomed into Baghdad in order to earn or share knowledge. Once the

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.

As a result of the Mongol sack of Baghdad their agriculture was affected tremendously. The

The Ubaid Period 6500 to 3800BC used a distinctive style of painted pottery which spread throughout most of Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The first settlement in southern Mesopotamia was established at Eridu around 5300BC by farmers who brought with them the first pioneered irrigation of agriculture. Eridu remained an important religious center when it was gradually surpassed in size by the nearby city of Uruk.

Mesopotamia finds itself situated between two major rivers in the Middle East the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; these rivers create what is called the Fertile Crescent a lush nutrient rich land that is suitable for long term civilization along with an abundant supply of fish for consumption (Mark, 2009).

In order to fully appreciate what Mesopotamia has contributed, it should be understood how exactly it was formed. Years before any dynasty, people lived in small groups as hunters and gatherers. As time progressed, so did ideas of functionality and order. At this time most people relied on religion to explain why certain things occurred. Thus, cities were built around religious shrines

From 3000 B.C. to 300 B.C. civilizations have been able to settle in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates River. Just as each new civilization learned from the remains left behind, historians now study the same remains to connect the dots as to how we are here today.

Mesopotamia was a great place for a civilization because it was parked between two rivers which is also what Mesopotamia means. Because it was near not one but two rivers, Mesopotamia was able to be home to, and sustain a much larger number of people people than if it was only near one river. This is because there was significantly more water with which to irrigate farms, and as a result, a much larger amount of food could be produced therefore allowing civilizations within Mesopotamia to sustain even more citizens.

Both Egypt and Baghdad seem to be going through the same problems but under different circumstances. War has affected them both but one more so than the other. Hawass was trying to garner a lot of attention to Egypt's museums and excavations, and seemed to be doing a pretty good job until the protests. I believe Hawass cared more about the fame and power than the artifacts, but he did help bring more pride to Egypt. He made people care about Egypt's past and got people to go to museums and tour historical monuments. He definitely brought money into Egypt, but now that he's gone, I wonder if the SCA will recover. Whoever is finally in charge will sure have big shoes to fill. They can't move forward until the government figures out what it will

We decided to do our Middle East Project on the country of Iraq. Iraq is sort of triangle shaped, with mountains, desert, and a large river valley. It is bordered on the east by Iran, on the south by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, on the west by Syria and Jordan, and on the north by Turkey. Iraq is almost 20 times the size of New Jersey. The geography of Iraq falls into four main regions; the desert west of the Euphrates river, Upper Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the northern highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Lower Mesopotamia, which includes the plains that extend from Tikrit to the Persian Gulf. From earliest times Iraq was known as Mesopotamia, which means the land between the rivers, because such a large part of the country

In the middle kingdom, there was a small village called____. This village was famous for having colossal mountain called_____. The mountain was very lavished with a rich ecosystem that include many unknown animals to mankind, and on top of the mountain there was an ancient monk that had been told to give people the power of the “superior person” or Junzi. Once every 1000th lunar moon, he hurries to the village to pick a family to have a chance to be Junzi. On one lunar moon the ancient monk came down and picked the Xang family. The Xang family had built a bad reputation within the village. Luckily, they’re a wealthy family that had built their fortunes from their money that had built up for many generations. The wealthy family had four sons. The monk wanted to see if one of the four sons can bring back the honor to their family. The old monk told the family that the four sons must come on top of the mountain and bring a part of strength, part of wisdom, and a part of courage. These parts will show the characteristics that a Junzi must have to obtain the title Junzi. With the title one can bring back the lost honor back to the family and the son will become Junzi. Each part must be given on top of the mountain at dusk by tomorrow. After the monk told the family about the request, the ancient monk returned to the top of the mountain. The sons stayed up all night thinking what to take to the old monk. While the older sibling thought of the items, the youngest son