Talk:World History/Ancient Civilizations

"People began to do things in similar ways (it is a property of human nature to want to belong)."

I'm not sure about this - aren't people more likely to do things the way other people in their civilization do because they've grown up used to that idea and they don't know any other way? For example, people here usually build rectangular doors not because they want to have the same door as everyone else, but because they don't think about any other kind of door. Humans may want to belong, but I don't think that's a main reason behind homogenized cultures. But I didn't edit that because I have no background in psychology or anthropology -- can anyone explain or comment?--Lady~Macbeth 6 July 2005 20:26 (UTC)

Persians
I found that the section on 'Persians' is under development. I wish to remark here that I'm currently wiriting a book on Iranian History. You are free to borrow content from my book. Thanks :-) -Ravichandar84 (talk) 03:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Source for dates?
According to "Western Civilisations" Lerner,Meacham,Burns 12th ed. [1993] vol. 1 p29 Sargon the Great conquered all of Sumer in 2320BCE and that Sumer gained it's independence in 2130BCE. The date for the conquering in the wikibook is 2125BCE. There seems to be a discrepency here! does anyone know the source for the date and others mentioned in the wikibook?

Zfishwiki (talk) 18:28, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Criticism of content priorities
In my belief too much information is given regarding Sargon the Great and his descendents and their respective campaigns. This is supposed to be a world history, not a political history of Sumer. The time would be better spent on describing what life was like for the inhabitants of Sumer and on important technical innnovations such as the wheel, the lunar calendar and writing. And whilst we are on the subject of writing: what is all that guff about the Georgian Asomtavruli alphabet. It surely does not deserve a place in a brief History of Mesopotamia

also see my critique of the structure in the talk page of World History

Zfishwiki (talk) 18:38, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Sources?
Could someone provide sources for the following?

From an anthropological viewpoint Sumerians belonged to the Caucasian, Mediterranean, Balkan European race.

For instance, the ancient Asomtavruli alphabet of the modern Georgian language has ethno-cultural contacts with the Sumerian world.

But Sumerian did not confide the Semites with the Majuscule alphabet, the secret spiritual alphabet that has a lot of similarity to ancient Georgian Asomtavruli alphabet

the Semites inhabiting the town of Akkad conquered Sumer and made the Sumerian scientists create an alphabet for them

Zfishwiki (talk) 12:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

my big question is isn't the Abyssinian kingdom an ancient civilization i have read a lot about abyssinian(ethiopian) kingdom when i wrote my paper & i have read that ethiopian civilization dates many years back before christ birth. evidences for this are;1, Diodorus Siculus bkii, says that egypt was a colony of ethiopia & the lows & script of both lands were the same but the hieroglyphic script was universal in ethiopia but confined in priestly clasess alone in egypt,2; Herodotuss called ethiopians "wise men occuping upper nile, men of long like, whose manners & customs pertain to the golden age those virtous mortals whose feasts & banquets ownerd by jupiter him self" in greek times egyptians depicted ethiopia as an ideal state 3; the puranas,the ancient historical books of india speaks of the civilization of ethiopia as being older than that of egypt. This Sanskirt books mention the names of old kushite kings that were worshiped in india & who were adopted & changed to suit the fancy of the later people of greece & rome.

Other Civ texts

 * Ancient River Valley
 * Saylor.org's_Ancient_Civilizations_of_the_World

Some of the sentences read confusingly to me
I feel I am of least average intelligence with decent comprehension. Yet I feel some of the sentences are incomprehensible. Too many facts crammed into one sentence perhaps. For example - " The first known mention of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade—indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, who the Sumerian kinglist claims to have built it."