Documentary on Iraq Civilization

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DOCUMENTARY ON IRAQ

explain what Michael Wood has to say about human civilization and its history, as well as the interrelations of religion and writing to the development of civilization.

Civilization is the process or point in human social development and organization where they reach their most advance stage. It could be in culture, religion or way of like in a particular area. History of civilization according to Michael Woods was curried out of nature and dependent of nature and in the end nature took us back to the roots of civilization. The western civilization later came and changed balance with nature forever but it is civilization itself that has become central problem of our planet.

From the documentary by Michael Woods civilization was born in barks of river Euphrates and Tigris Mesopotamia a city in Iraq. Mesopotamia had water at its main resource where people could transform scarcity to plenty. Sumerians who were the inhibitors of Mesopotamia created civilization and they pounded deeply about life and religion just like Indians and this made them strong allies who up to date live side by side.

The history of Iraq is the most tragic yet the most tragic yet is the source of civilization where they believed in organization of society with measures of happiness. Secondly, they believed key quality of civilization is continuity of life and religion.

The myths and religious believes from the Iraq documentary by Michael Woods on civilization describes Mesopotamia as the first city that began as a religious center and arose from water just like from the bible in the book of genesis where during creation the earth was created from water where hearts of civilization were first developed. Mesopotamia was first a landscape of green grass before the city arose just like the paradise in the bible. Civilization came to be when we tasted the tasted the fruit of knowledge and became masters of earth and the devil bargains which will make use gain power and destroy the earth ourselves. The myth is supported by all the religious temple and shrines that existed in Mesopotamia. Civilization and arising of this city shaped the modern world, it will bring both joy and sorrow to what God passed here and in the future according to Michael Woods Iraq civilization documentary.

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Hockmann, D. (2009). Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape, by Guillermo Algaze.Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape, by Guillermo Algaze. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2008. xviii, 230 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Canadian Journal Of History, 44(3), 489-490. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.44.3.489