Middle East

The entire world was impacted with the Islamic civilization. Areas of commerce, technology, medicine, navigation, astronomy, and other scientific areas were touched by the hand of new discoveries brought forth by the learning centers of the Islamic world. The Islamic caliphates had an economy that was flourishing due to the established trade routes. The procession of people trading through the region also spawned the development of technologies, ideas, and spread the religion of Islam across…

1. Executive Summary After attending the Food Safari field trip in Week 3, there were many Middle Eastern foods, ingredients that was tried and consumed. The food that will be explored in this report will be Falafel. Falafel is a Middle Eastern dish that is eaten alone or as a snack. This report will examine what falafel is and how they make it in today’s society, the history of falafel and the difference between the past and present of falafel. All resources are researched through credible…

The Great Lyre from Ur The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head is the oldest stringed instrument found by an archeologist Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. This valuable historical relic is now well-preserved in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The lyre was created between c. 2600 BCE and c. 2500 BCE during the Sumerian Period. It was discovered in a royal tomb from an ancient Mesopotamian city named Ur and its contemporary location is Muqaiyir, Iraq. The lyre looks…

The chosen Sound Box from Sumerian Lyre, from Ur.Ca. 2685 BCE; Mesopotamia structure was dated back to the third millennium B.C. found in the tomb of Queen Puabi from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in southern Iraq by an archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his men between 1922 and 1934 called “The Great Lyre” in PG789 (Clark, 2014). The Sound Box of Lyre had disintegrated, leaving only an impression in the soil, which Woolly called them death pits known as “Kings’ Graves” (Penn Museum, n. d.).…

Chapter 14 Assignment #2 Half of Ch 14.3 Middle passage, African cottage industries, Quakers views on slavery, Dutch East India Company, British East India Company, Tea and silk from China, missionaries in Japan, “sugar factories”, British and French in North America. 1. Middle Passage- The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. In the Middle Passage, European ships left Europe and…

“love, intrigue and revenge.” The romantic affair between Erastus who is the gallant knight and Perseda who is his beautiful chaste mistress. Wann discusses that ‘Two-thirds of these Oriental plays were tragedies because the Elizabethans considered the East as the domain of war, conquest, fratricide, lust and treachery’ (Wann, 168–69). Kyd’s play is constructed around stereotyped idea of Soliman and Turkey because of anti-Oriental prejudices (Al-Olaqi, 36). He conjures up a figment of the…

Introduction: During the 1100-1300s, the Middle Eastern Middle Ages Empire emerged from Arabia, and the Islamic forces conquered much of the Eastern Empire and Persia. During this time, the Eastern Middle Ages progressed rapidly and they were well advanced in terms of medicine, logistics and technology. The Western Middle Ages were restricted from advancing, and they gathered much of their knowledge from the Eastern Empire. As a result, the Eastern Middle Ages became substantially more…

British East India Company was established in 1600, with intentions to import cotton and in return to export wool. Indian consumers weren’t in great demand for wool so the Company wanted to exchange bullions in return to Indian goods. The Company sold to consumer markets within Asia but soon to consumers in Europe. In 1610, European and Asian owned ships were already carrying almost 10 million yards of cloth to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Plus a few yards of fabric of…

burtoniana.org have provided scholars, historians, anthropologists, and geographers with valuable primary sources of Burton’s expeditions of India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Specifically in Africa, Burton had the fortune of being the first European to enter many African lands never explored by outsiders. Burton led the expedition to East Africa that in 1858 discovered Lake Tanganyika and, through his deputy Captain John Hanning Speke, the headwaters of the Nile, Lake Victoria…

power responsibility in Berlin (Harrison 53). Due to economic, political, and social consequences, the Berlin Wall divided Berlin into two very distinctively different cities. East Berlin was ruled under a Soviet communist regime, while West Berlin was ruled under the influence of the Western World. The division between East Germany and West Germany is what Winston Churchill called the “Iron Curtain” that fell across Europe, isolating its…