If money did not exist, the world as we know it would be completely different. We would all be living in a barter economy. Every time any of us wanted to buy something, we would have to exchange it for something
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Among scholars who consider it to have been real, there have been various suggestions for its location: at the head of the Persian Gulf, insouthern Mesopotamia(now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in Armenia. Does the land of Canaan still exist? Canaan inc...
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The other major birthplaces of complex civilizations around the world like Egypt or Mesopotamia, they all had pottery, but did this mysterious culture provide us with evidence of ceramic pottery? No, this culture is unconventional in that respect.Researchers have also discovered mechanical remains of...
Did marriage exist in ancient times? The first recorded evidence ofmarriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for "Gilgamesh"), king of...
fell on the Indian side of the border. This meant drawing a line through the heart of the Pashtun homeland, providing clarity for future atlas makers but confusing future military strategists slow to realize that a “true” border, such as would justifiably divide peoples, did not exist. ...
Yet, as the ancient wheels of the horoscope grind around in time, as they have done for stargazers as far back as Mesopotamia – it is also clear that through a quirk of birth timing, every generation now here, from children to seniors, is about to rediscover its best qualities. To come...
(e.g. Ifrah2000; Menninger1969) have found that some ancient cultures did not develop numbers at all. Some had names only for one and two and some up to three or four. Larger numbers were described as ‘many’. In many ancient languages, words for ‘two’ or ‘three’ exist between ...