Thoughts and Reflections on A Light That Did Not Fail

Agnes Yu      Period 7     10/12/14

Thoughts and Reflections on: A Light That Did Not Fail.

Source of the article: The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

    1) Why was Mesopotamia so ethnically diverse?

   As we all know, Mesopotamia was one of the earliest civilizations, it gives huge

perspective to our modern civilization. because it's the land between the Tigris and

Euphrates, people had the idea that use the water from the two rivers, so you can

see how clever they were in the early ancient time, and they were the first to settle

 down in cities, thus mesopotamians would have the best site that had good supply

of water and the location would help them better for agriculture and other things.

Mesopotamia was made up of several groups of people such as Sumerians,

Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and so on, so you can see how diverse they

were that they separated into different groups. Also, the reasons that show how

great was the civilization is the agriculture and writing, they invented these systems

to help them to do something such as to keep record and Mesopotamians had

different types of record, this is why we have so many information about them now.

And what's cool about it is they even had their own language! Mesopotamia

diverse is not just about those systems, they had their laws and they had to work by

the rules. As a result, Mesopotamia became one of the great civilizations that is

ethnically diverse.

       2) What were the basic features and enduring culture values of an ancient  

       Mesopotamia civilizations?

  Mesopotamians had their own language and they invented systems like agriculture

and writing. They even had their laws and they separated into different groups and

each group had their own functions such as Sumerians invented writing. The

civilization was  a large way to fix man's place in Nature and society, it tried to avoid

upsetting the precarious balance between Nature and society, you can see how

everything just kinda relates to the Nature and society. All the region's

accomplishments are grouped into a harmonious pattern which develops into the

Mesopotamian way of life.

     3) Why did the ancient Mesopotamians build their cities over and over in the

          same place?

   Because when people started settling down they also started to set the rules and

laws and began to invent systems like writing and agriculture, and as a result, this

place would have its own culture and everything would be more convenient and

 the next time when people build cities here again everything would come

much easier and those culture would keep developing.