Fertile Crescent/ancient near East

The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East incorporating the Levant, Ancient Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt, known as the "Cradle of Civilization." The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted, around 1900. The region was named the "Fertile Crescent" because of its rich soil and half-moon shape.  Watered by the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and covering some 400,000-500,000 square kilometers, the region extends from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea around the north of the Syrian Desert and through the Jazirah and Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. These areas correspond to the present-day Egypt, Israel , and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey and south-western Iran.

Neolithic Revolution

Neoteny

Aristotle (Greek: Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) student of Plato, justified slavery with references to animal husbandry

andrapodon (man-footed creature)

tetrapodon (four-footed creature)

Roman Empire at its height

Spartacus (c. 109 BC-71 BC)

Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Howard Fast's novel, as Spartacus, in 1960.