History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . originally called Shinar. It was rarely morethan forty miles wide and contained probably less than eightthousand square miles of cultivable soil—-roughly equal to thearea of New Jersey. It lies in the Mediterranean belt of rainywinter and dry summer, but the rainfall is so scanty (less thanthree inches a year) that irrigation of the fields is required inorder to ripen the grain. When properly irrigated the Plain ofShinar is prodigiously fertile, and the chief source of wealth inancient Shinar was agriculture.
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . originally called Shinar. It was rarely morethan forty miles wide and contained probably less than eightthousand square miles of cultivable soil—-roughly equal to thearea of New Jersey. It lies in the Mediterranean belt of rainywinter and dry summer, but the rainfall is so scanty (less thanthree inches a year) that irrigation of the fields is required inorder to ripen the grain. When properly irrigated the Plain ofShinar is prodigiously fertile, and the chief source of wealth inancient Shinar was agriculture. This plain was the scene of themost important and long-continued of those frequent strugglesbetween the mountaineer and the nomad, of which we have spoken. 1 The other two chapters of Tigris-Euphrates history were Assyria and the ChaldeanEmpire, 2 This was the distance in ancient Babylonian and Assyrian times. But the rivershave since then filled up the Persian Gulf for one hundred and fifty to sixty miles (seenote under scale on map, p. 42, and see map, Ancient Times, p. io6)..
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