Mesopotamia encompassed several different civilizations and the first city states. The Mesopotamian civilization spanned from the Sumerian Empire in approximately 3500 B.C.E. to the end of the Assyrian empire in the 7th century. One notable leader was Sargon of Akkad, who started the first ...
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 ...
Study an overview of ancient history. Review what ancient history is and examine the achievements of ancient civilizations in various periods with...
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...
Prehistory is a term for all eras prior to the development of the earliest writing systems. The common prehistory definition suggests that ''history'' began around 3600 BCE when ancient Mesopotamians developed writing. Homo sapiens, the modern human species, have existed in their current form for...
-2300: Sargon founds Mesopotamian kingdom of Akkad, trades with Indus-Sarasvati Valley cities. -2300: Indo-Europeans in Russia's Ural steppelands develop efficient spoked-wheel chariot technology, using 1,000-year-old horse husbandry and freight-cart technology. ...
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...
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...