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 else. Specifically, we would have to find something that the seller would...
Why did Hadrian abandon Mesopotamia? Why did the Vikings leave the New World? Why was Aztec mythology so complicated? Why did the Olmecs use jade, clay, basalt, and greenstone? Why did Egyptian pharaohs stop building pyramids? Why did the Vikings die out in North America? Why was Stonehenge...
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...
Why did they call it the Dutch Gold Coast? Why was Mesopotamia known as "The Land Between Two Rivers"? Why was the Battle of Lake George important? Why is it called the Potsdam Conference? Why is Europe called Europe? Why are sailors called sea dogs?
Did Gilgamesh actually exist? The myth is based on a real king The realGilgamesh was thought to have ruled the city of Uruk, in modern day Iraq, sometime between 2,800 and 2,500 B.C. Over hundreds of years, legends and myths were built up around his actual deeds, and these became ...
The oldest known love letter dates back to 5000 years ago, found in ancient Mesopotamia, reflecting humanity’s long history of expressing love through writing. Studies have shown that relationship satisfaction does not necessarily dip after 7 years; it can decline at various stages if not nurtured...
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. Before the creation of the Durand Line, ...
Even though we were unable to uncover thehistorybehind National Zoo Lovers Day, we did find some great history about how long zoos have been around and who invented them. We found out that the first zoos were created around 2500 BCE in Mesopotamia andEgypt. These menageries were established ...
a standard traditional hallmark used to classify the culture as complex is the presence of ceramic pottery.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 potter...
Hussein championed law and order, state-driven economic development and politically apportioned distributions from the spoils of the extensive government-controlled oil sector. To be sure, Baathist socialism didn’t bring much prosperity to the well-endowed lands of Mesopotamia, but Hussein did...