Assur,Asur,Ashur- an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq Nineveh- an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq ...
That they could make their way so far east depended on the domestication of the horse. The chapter traces why the relations between the steppe and the sown, between the mobile peoples of the Eurasian grasslands and the farmers living to the south have always been problematic. The chapter also...
commercial relations made it possible for Ptolemy to indicate on his map the outlines of Britain and the island of Ierne (Ireland), Agisymba (in Africa, south of Lake Chad), and the island of Taprobane (Ceylon), as well as the tribes of the Seres and Sinae (Chinese) in the East. ...
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centered around the Dacheng Hall and symmetrically aligned along the north-south axis. It consists of Temple Gate, palace walls, Pan Pool, Pan Bridge, Dacheng Gate, Chongsheng Shrine, Earth God Shrine, corridors running along the east and west of the temple, and other buildings. The front of...
Citizens also traded with foreign settlements such as Mesopotamians and South Arabians, which influenced them to adopt some of their cultural characteristics. The Harappan settlements were laid out in an orderly and orthogonal fashion, oriented towards the cardinal directions. Unlike Mesopotamians and ...
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(i.e., from Erzurum to Mount Ararat) in the north and to the south shore ofLake Urmiain the southeast. Ardini, orMuṣaṣir, once conquered byTiglath-pileser Iof Assyria about 1100, now became part of the Urartian sphere of influence. The temple ofHaldiat Ardini was richly endowed...
Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of southwestern Asia. It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East. The lower portion of the region that they define, known as M
3a). This coincides with the population dynamics in Shandong proposed in previous studies, with an outward spreading to the west and south of East Asia and interactions with other cultures (e.g., the Yangshao culture) [41], [42], [43]. Download: Download high-res image (618KB) ...