Pyramids of Egypt and the Ziggurats of Mesopotamia
2010年3月6日 · Second, the technology of building structures out of mud bricks doesn't come from Mesopotamia. It was a technique that was developed in the Neolithic period in Palastine around 9000 BC and then spread throughout the fertile crescent. Egyptians were using bud bricks to line the graves of their cemeteries at least since the Naqada period c. 4000 BC.
Why do we still call Mesopotamia the "cradle of civilization"?
2019年8月20日 · Why is Mesopotamia often still dubbed "the cradle of civilization", meaning the site where human civilization first emerged and developed? While it was the first region to establish agriculture and a complex society, there were many regions of the world where agriculture and the building of...
When and how did Christianity spread in Mesepotamia
2021年6月11日 · The flip side of this is that Jewish persecutions in the Roman Empire increased with Constantine, and Judaism had moved east to Mesopotamia by 300 A.D. The tolerance of Christians probably has to do with the Sasanid dynasty's economic focus in Mesopotamia and in the west. All of these places were not Persian, and so were foreign to them.
Was Ancient Greece essentially a Middle Eastern civilization?
2016年1月2日 · I don't know much about the Minoans or Mycenaeans, but weren't the Minoans influenced by Mesopotamia and Egypt and Crete is almost close to Egypt and the Levant. So is Ancient Greece technically more Middle Eastern than it is European? And Europeans basically got their culture from Rome, who in turn copied from Greece.
Tripolye Culture town planning in 4,000 B.C. - History Forum
2021年3月20日 · The site is a Tripolye Culture site located at Nebelivka in the Ukraine, and estimated to date to approximately 4,000 B.C. The culture as a whole is significant as it relates to Europe's developing neolithic society, and the implications of its interaction with other identified European cultures surrounding it.
City Size in the Ancient World - History Forum
2012年5月24日 · In 1200 BC, about 1700 years after Uruk, the biggest city in Mesopotamia was 80,000 inhabitants large. Not much larger than Uruk, though gigantic by any ancient standards. Egypt was never as urbanized as Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was more urbanized thanks to their city state culture, since city states tend to produce much more urbanized cultures ...
Who developed the idea of the first sewer system? - History Forum
2011年7月13日 · The Romans were not the first civilization to put a sewer system to widespread use- neither was their sewer system the most advanced (or akin to modern standards) put into place in the ancient world.
Egyptian, Greek, Roman Empire... a little confused...
2013年6月21日 · Egyptian culture survived in parts right up until the time of Christianity, albeit with the nationstate of Egypt (for want of a better term) having been conquered over and over again since the fall of the New Kingdom around 1069BC (firstly by a Libyan family, then by Nubia, then Persia, then Macedonia, then Rome).
Cucuteni–Trypillia | History Forum
2019年9月3日 · Evidence for the use of the potter's wheel in Mesopotamia is slightly younger (Nissen 1988). 'Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization: The Influence of Old Europe', Harald Haarmann, 2014 "Through examining the changes in the ceramic technology of Pre-Cucuteni-Tripolye (Neolithic) through Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye culture, Ellis is able to show ...
The Scorpionmen of ancient Mesopotamia - History Forum
2021年1月30日 · It was in every culture, I reckon. Man with bird head & bird wings can fly. Man with lion head is superfierce & superfearless. So also man with tiger head. Man with crocodile head is a superswimmer, also superfierce & might eat guys he doesn't like. Man with horse body is swift footed, has high endurance & is supervirile. And so on & so forth.