The Origins Of Our Cities - 1726 Words

The Origins of Cities The topic statement I chose was The Origins of Our Cities. I am personally interested in what caused the cities to form and function the way it did. How did these cities of our past affect us today? The main focus of the paper is to identify the principle of the cause effect relationship in the development of these cities. The first cities were developed and formed near bodies of water and fertile areas of the region. For example, I wanted to do some research on the Sumerian civilization around the fertile crescent and how the ancient Sumerian deities, the Anunnaki, played a part in influencing their way of life and their formation of their cities/communities. My interest started from my own curiosity of how†¦show more content†¦In the story, the tiger gave up after a few days, but the bear continued and became a woman. The god found the woman to be so beautiful he decided to marry her, and she gave birth to a child who became the first king of Korea. In the first scene of the movie Star Trek Into the Darkness, the captain of the Starship Enterprise is being chased by the native aliens of a particular planet because he steals a scroll that is sacred to them to lead them out of harm’s way. Meanwhile Spock, the second in command, is inside a volcano near this primitive society and is about to erupt, which could cause the native alien race to become extinct. While attempting to detonate an explosive device to neutralize the situation, he realizes that he is going to die saving these species. After tossing the scroll back to the natives and returning safely back to the ship, the captain breaks protocol and decides to expose their starship to this primitive race in order to save Spock. In the process, the native alien race sees the starship and at that very moment give no regard to the once sacred scroll they worshipped. Instead, they start drawing an outline of the starship and being to bow to it, believing that it is their sa vior and god. This very scene brings to mind the possibility that an extraterrestrial race could have had some sort of influence on our origins and the development of the first cities. The two examples that I have written about above are clearly not