City of Jericho in the Old Testament

He wasn’t only a great king but a great warlord. He is known for conquering Jerusalem, deporting the king of Judah, Jehoiakim, and many of Jehoiakim’s people to Babylon. He and his father Nabopolassar commanded an army together north of Assyria. When he lead a campaign against the Egyptians and came back victorious, Babylon became the most powerful military force in the Middle East. When he was 25 he started acting as a military administrator.

Located in present day Iraq, Hammurabi is recognized with uniting this area, Mesopotamia (Hammurabi). While in power he pursued many military battles. The main purpose of these battles was to gain control of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. “This was essential as their agricultural productivity depended on it (Hammurabi)”. Five years into his title, King Hammurabi started his attacks by conquering the cities of Uruk and Isin to the south in 1787 B.C.E.

In the end the Crusades did not have a clear victor, but influenced our world today greatly. The Crusades brought many great things that ultimately impacted history in the middle ages because of its religious expansion, military conquest and trying to overthrow the muslims, and finally resorted to looting and stealing throughout their conquest. It is easily visible today that the Crusades really strayed away from its central goal of retaking Jerusalem, but was accomplished in some ways. It was believed that Jerusalem was conquered for many years, but that reign was short lived (Ables 1). Jerusalem was under Crusader rule for about 88 years, but under palestinian rule for 192 years (Knox 2).

The Israelites were on their way into the land God had promised them and they encountered many battles on their way. The Gibeonites were a very large and powerful city. But they were afraid because the five kingdoms of Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, Hoham, king of Hebron, Priam, king of Jarmuth, Japhia, king of Lachish, and Debir, king of Eglon: which surrounded them were ganging up against them. So, the Gibeonites tricked Joshua into a peace treaty because they had seen what Joshua and his army had done to Jericho and its surrounding cities and they knew that God was with them. The Gibeonites dressed in old, dirty clothes, sandals, and carried moldy bread and old torn wineskins to make Joshua believe they were from a city far away and were seeking refuge.

“Irrigation along much of the river supported the growth of agricultural products such as cotton, wheat, sorghum, dates, citrus fruits, sugarcane, and various legumes.1” Other local communities fished in the Nile River. “The first great African civilization developed in the northern Nile Valley in about 5000 BC. Dependent on agriculture, this state, called Egypt, relied on the flooding of the Nile for irrigation and new soils.2” The Nile was their only way of trading and fastest way of transportation. Without the Nile it would take them a long time to go from city to city or trade. Egyptians always depended on the Nile to flood, when the ice from the mountains melted every year there was a flood.

Agriculture had not been the original basis of subsistence, but evolved, together with the land itself, during the millennia after the last Ice Age ended around 10,000 BC, expanding greatly from about 4500 BC onward.” Another article wrote “Egypt is a land of shifting desert sands, a land of giant pyramids and a place of great rulers from the past. It is the land of the Nile” (Stevenson, 2000). Since Egypt has a lot land to spare, they built pyramids. We all know that pyramids are used for bury their kings and queens. According to Stringer, 2007 reported that “Memphite pyramids, the Great Pyramid Moua 2 of stands as the greatest example of the ancient Egyptian... ... middle of paper ... ... O΄Conner, J., Robertson, E.F.(2000).

Egyptian history is rich, vibrant, and full of interesting cultural knowledge. Egypt is one of the most fertile countries located in the Mediterranean Sea; because approximately 40,000 years ago many people lived in Egypt earlier than in other places. The Egyptian environment is a hot and dry area, because it is a part of the Sahara Desert. Many Egyptians’ religious beliefs were polytheistic; they believed in several different gods. The economy during the ancient Egyptian time period was different because they were one of the first groups on earth to begin the farming trade.

It was originally built by King Herod, but some 75 years after his death, at the start of the Revolt of the Jews against the Romans in 66 CE, a band of Jewish rebels defeated the Romans who were situated there. They held Masada for three years. Then, in 73 CE, Roman governor Flavius Silva marched against Masada with the Tenth Legion and many Jewish POWs. The Romans built camps at the base of the fortress, besieged it and built a circumvallation wall around the fortress to make sure nobody escapes and that no supplies could be given to assist the rebels. They then constructed a rampart of thousands of tons of stones and dirt against the western approaches of the fortress.

During his 19 year reign he brought the end to a seven year famine, and also brought them into a golden age, and he built the step pyramid. To get to the throne, he most likely succeed his brother to it (“Zoser”). Some sources indicate that Shanakht was the first ruler of the third dynasty, but archaeological evidence shows that this was false. Not much

He had a fleet of ships built in the port of Dives, building the boats took seven months. William was not the only person invading England, Norway had landed in northern England and Harold had rushed to defeat them. On September 28, 1066 William landed in Pevensey with no opposition except for the townspeople because Harold was in the north. Harold quickly moved his troops to the south of England The armies matched in size and Harold had the battlefield advantage but William had skillfully co-ordinate his armies, which Harold had not. The first assault by the Normans failed and a rumor had started that William had died.