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.
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