Mesopotamian civilizations flourished from the founding of the Sumerian Empire in 3100 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC to the Achaemenid Empire.SumeriaSumer’s history began long before humans invented writing to record historical events. Much of what we know of prehistoric Sumer was found ...
Babylon developed on the remnants of Sumer gathering the various Mesopotamian pockets of civilizations that had become known as cities into a collective empire. Babylon had actually begun as part of Sumer, but the emergence of the rulerHammurabiled to the creation of the new empire. Many of the...
Before Stroke, the term apoplexy was described in ancient civilizations and evidence of suffering and managing it is preserved within the mummies, inscriptions, and papyri of the Egyptian civilization, clay tablets of the Mesopotamian civilization, medical books of the Chinese civilization, and although...
Spreading from Pakistan to Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, it is the largest of the world's three oldest civilizations with links to Mesopotamia (possibly Crete), Afghanisthan, Central Asia and Karnataka. Harappa and Mohenjo-daro have populations of 100,000. -2600: Major portions of the Ved...
The end of the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia was brought on by in-fighting and civil wars between various factions. Historians agree that, around 1300-1200 BCE, the Mesopotamian civilizations declined the most during the Bronze Age and brought an end to the era. The Levant The Levant Bronze Age...
Using Egyptian and Mesopotamian infrastructure, the Romans built dams in many parts of the Mediterranean and Near East from about 2700 years ago to 400 CE, including 45 large dams on rivers in the Near East, with irrigation canals, waterwheels, and aqueducts. Some Roman dams in Spain are mor...
The Nasca are probably best known to the public for the Nazca Lines, geometric lines and animal shapes etched into the desert plain by the members of this civilization. The Nasca lines were first intensively studied by the German mathematician Maria Reiche and have been the focus of many silly...
That development of complexity within the predynastic period led to the emergence of the Egyptian state is inarguable. But, the impetus for that development has been the focus of much debate among scholars. There appears to have been active trade relationships with Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine (Canaa...
This was the phase in which earlier versions of the Greek script originated. It had great connections with the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations and it also declined almost at the same time around 1050 BC due to multiple factors like foreign invasions, the decline in trade, naturals ...
First use of Greek alphabet. Ancient Persians conquer Mesopotamia (see: Mesopotamian art) and build Persepolis. High point of Greek black-figure style of ceramic pottery. Soon followed by red-figure. Democracy in Athens. Celtic La Tène art style begins. Roman Republic starts. Greek sculptor Poly...