#cradle of civilization

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-1880) Plato's Symposium, Detail, 1869

[empirearchives]

I was reading a book about Ancient Mesopotamia, and came across this mention of the Napoleonic Code:

Over the centuries the law continued to grow, adapting to the changing needs of society as it progressed, from the Napoleonic Code of 1804, which legalized the reforms of the French Revolution

Source: Samuel Noah Kramer, Cradle of Civilization

The book is about what is believed to be the first civilization, and how it’s own developments (writing, urbanization, law, trade, etc) have impacted and laid the foundation for societies to this day. Really amazing to see how history is all connected.

[createimpact3p0]

Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilization. Grown around the fertile lands of Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the historical region Mesopotamia housed some of the world's most ancient highly developed civilizations, such as Sumerians and Akkadians

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[readyforevolution]

The entire African continent was an extremely civilized place by their own rich cultures, the time the first European travellers began discovering and later destroying her people and cultures.

“When they arrived in the Gulf of Guinea and landed at Vaida (in West Africa) the captains were astonished to find streets well laid out, bordered on either side for several leagues by two rows of trees; for days they travelled through a country of magnificent fields, inhabited by men clad in richly coloured garments of their own weaving! Further south in the Kingdom of the Congo, a swarming crowd dressed in `silk` and `velvet`; great States well-ordered, and down to the most minute details; powerful rulers, flourishing industries-civilized to the marrow of their bones. And the condition of the countries on the eastern coast- Mozambique, for example- was quite the same.”Leo Frobenius, `Histoire de la Civilisation Africaine`, quoted in Anna Melissa Graves, `Africa, the Wonder and the Glory,US, Black Classic Press, (originally 1942),pg4.

Portuguese missionaries wrote of the Kongo…” a well-organized political system with taxes and rates, there was a brilliant court,(and) a great civil service. The state constructed roads, imposed tolls, supported a large army and had a monetary system-of…shells, of which the Mani Congo…had a monopoly. The Congo Kingdom even had a few satellite states, for example the state of the Ngola (ie Ndongo) in present-day Angola. The original kingdom was about the size of France and Germany put together”.

“There is no doubting…the existence of an expert metallurgical art in the ancient Kongo; only the competition of objects from abroad and the slow deterioration brought about its decline. A further proof is provided by recent ethnographic documents. The Bakongo were aware of the toxicity of lead vapours. They devised preventative and curative methods, both pharmacological (massive doses of pawpaw and palm oil) and mechanical (exerting of pressure).

[lemonsparadise]

[hiddenanatolia]

The mighty Euphrates.

[mossadegh]

• Mossadegh media: newspaper & magazine articles, editorials

[9misoundsystem]

Mighty Prophet - Cradle of Civilization

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[historyandmythfatw]

Watch "The Oxus Civilization: The Lost Civilization you've never heard of" on YouTube

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Henryk Siemiradzki (Polish, 1843-1902) Following the example of the gods, n.d. Transcarpathian Art Museum named after. Joseph Bokshay, Uzhgorod

[steviebee77]

Covenant and Redemptive History

Covenant and Redemptive History

THEOLOGY AND HISTORY ARE implicated in all of God’s covenants. Scripture presents the story of Christianity in a comprehensive manner, including God’s plan for the redemption of fallen man. It also addresses Christian doctrine, theology, mission, and destiny. But the Bible is also a history book containing horizontal (chronological) history and redemptive (“non linear” or vertical) history.…

[selwynsel]

i rly like fallen london and all its associated games; the tone of the writing, the style of the game mechanics, the perspective it uses to analyze history - it’s all very fun, and interesting, and oozing with talent. but at the same time, i HAAATE how it’s so deeply steeped in the west’s own myth-making. past all its beautiful layers and interesting ideas, it’s still another stupid brit-bit about mysterious, ineffable, fantastical, etc etc london is, like every other tired-ass fantasy piece about london.

[putting-niffty-in-places]

make her travel to ancient mesopotamia

"I met a boy who's not a boy and also not really bad, but he seemed fun so I snuck into his box when he wasn't looking!"

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[delayshay]

Weird impulse to move to Anchorage, Alaska so far away from everything I've ever know and just like reinvent myself.