Early Civlizations Matrix: Early Civilization
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EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MATRIX
CIVILIZATION |politics |society/ economics |technology |art |music |architecture |philosophy |literature | |Prehistoric |Establish- ments of large social entities
7 million '' 10,000 B.C.E. |Fossil remains of near-human or proto-human creature known as Hominids
7 million-10,000 B.C.E. |Tool and weapon making
20,000 B.C.E. |Paintings and carvings on walls of caves and surface of rocks
15,000 B.C.E. |Ancient music in most of Europe (1500 B.C.E) |Neolithic architecture
10,000 B.C.E. |Intimate association with nature
10,000 B.C.E. |Animism transmit information by way of symbols
8000 B.C.E. | |Mesopotamian |Believed their kings and queens were descended from the city gods, …show more content…
but never believed their kings were gods
8000 B.C.E. |Clay tokens used to tally goods Sumer developed the first economy. Babylonians developed the earliest system of economics
8000 B.C.E. |Metalworking, copper-working, glass making, lamp making, textile weaving, flood control, water storage, and irrigation.
Iron was introduced
Windmills employed
1700 B.C.E. |Bull man appears frequently in their art
8000 B.C.E.
Terracotta plaque “Queen of the Night”
1800 B.C.E. |Some songs were written for the gods but many were written to describe important events
3500 B.C.E. |Concentrates on temples, palaces, city walls and gates
2627 B.C.E. |Embodied certain philosophies of life, particularly ethics, in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose, and proverbs around
2000 B.C. |The finest literary work is the Epic of Gilamesh, recorded on clay tablets around 2000 B.C. | |Ancient Egyptian |Political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh “the law of the land is the mouth of the pharaoh”
3000 B.C.E. |Individuals of any class could rise in status by way of education.
3000 B.C.E. |Construction of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh’. Employ a simple form of the sundial, water clock, and glass
1450 B.C.E. |Their art comes almost exclusively from tombs and graves
1355 B.C.E. |Music was an integral part of religious worship. Harps, small stringed instruments, pipes, and sistrums often found buried with the dead
3000 B.C.E. |Great temples were built and most have survived. Example is the Great Temple of Amon-Ra, Kamak, ca 1220 B.C.E. |Egyptians venerated the pharaoh as the living representative of the sun god. They had an understanding of mathematics and knowledge of the heavens and the sun with relationship to the stars
3000 B.C.E. |From tomb and temple walls, papyrus rolls, come prayers and songs, royal decrees and letters, prose tales, and texts
1300 B.C.E.
| |Archaic Greek |New political structures started to be formed
3000 B.C.E. |Farming, sheep-herding, hunting, fishing, and trading. They learned about minting coins
3000 B.C.E. |Fire pottery styles
Red-figure pottery
Epictitus terracotta cup
510 .B.C.E. |Greek sculpture of the human body so evident as in Hellenic sculpture
700 B.C.E. |Development of the Orientalizing style mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration, and spiritual reasons around 500 B.C.E. |First temples built around 800 BC were made of wood |The rise of democracy, philosophy and theatre poetry around 500 B.C.E. |Revitalization of the written language around
300 B.C.E. | |Aegean |Had a theocracy consisting of a king, warrior/religious aristocracy, and subjects around 2000 B.C. |No traces of currency.
Standard weights were found around 2000 B.C. |Weapons, tools, and implements in stone, clay, bronze, and iron around 1840 B.C.E. |Objects carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in gold, silver, copper, and bronze. Vases of all kings around 2000 B.C. |Music was a vital part of religious ceremonies and for social rituals like weddings, funerals around 2000 B.C. |Architectural features, such as columns, friezes, and various mouldings, mural decoration, such as fresco- paintings around 2000 B.C. |Herodotus has been regarded as the father of modern historiography around 2000 B.C. |The Aegean written documents have not yet proved to be epistolary.
Clay tablets and discs around 2000 B.C | |Classical Greek |Alexander the Great carried Greek language and culture into North Africa and Central Asia, Hellenizing a vast part of the civilized world around 400 B.C.E. |Trade and fighting were necessary to Greek economy around 500 B.C.E. |Compilation of mathematics that includes geometry and number theory around 300 B.C.E. |Produced some of the most exquisite sculptures.
Architectural achievement of the Parthenon
490-430 B.C.E. |Principal musical instruments were the lyre and the kithara around 500 B.C.E. |We have more archaic temples that survive than we do classical temples around 490 B.C.E. |Belief in the worth. Focused on the role of reason and inquiry around 500 B.C.E. |Saw the dawn of Drama. Includes the works of Homer, the historians, playwrights, and philosophers around 300 B.C.E. | |Hellenistic |A new wave of Greek colonization which established Greek cities and Kingdoms in Asia and Africa around 300 B.C.E. |New agricultural techniques were developed and the spread of a relatively uniform currency around 300 B.C.E. |Hellenistic Greeks invent the catapult for use as an artillery weapon
400 B.C.E. |Statue known as Apollo Belvedere
400 B.C.E. |Characterized literature and music. The lyric poetry of Sappho and Pindar around 300 B.C.E. |Construction of utilitarian structures, such as lighthouses, theaters, and libraries. Circular sanctuaries and colossal Corinthian temples
The Altar of Zeus around 175 B.C.E. |Metaphysics gave way to science and practical philosophy around 300 B.C.E. |A great flowering of the arts, literature, and science occurred particularly in the period 280 to 160 B.C.E. | |Roman |An autocratic form of Government
The Law of the Twelve Tables around 449 B.C.E. |Rome’s economy remained focused on agriculture and trade around 700 C.E. |Romans use water power for milling grain
Julian Calendar on which the modern calendar is based around 101 B.C.E.
|Sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, and the interior of the Pantheon around 118 C.E. |Roman music theory was adopted from the Greeks, as were most Roman instruments around 130 C.E. |Built fifty thousand miles of paved roads, tenements, meeting halls, baths, and amphitheaters, the Pantheon 118 C.E.
Colosseum 70 C.E. |Romans respected and preserved the writings of Hellenic and Hellenistic thinkers
300 B.C.E. |Roman literature reveals a use of Latin prose for the purposes of entertainment, instruction, and record keeping around 300 B.C.E. | |Judaic |All Jewish political struggles were internal, and dealt primarily with either religious issues or issues of a particular Jewish community around 80 B.C.E. |Exported some important commodities, including high quality wheat, wine, and oil to Egypt, and trade was generally by sea around 700 B.C.E. |Judaic technology was largely based on a system of crafts around 700 B.C.E. |Jews have been involved in all the artistic genres--painting, sculpture, mosaic, fresco, architecture, and the design of religious and household implements, manuscript implementation
500 B.C.E. |Covers cantorial, synagogal
music
Instrument such as the uggav (small flute), the abbuv (a reed flute or oboe-like instrument)
500 B.C.E. |The Tabernacle and the two Temples in Jerusalem reflect the culture of the countries in which Jews live.
Chanting daily prayer
1300 B.C.E. |Philosophical activity carried out by Jews or in relation to the religion of Judaism
1380 B.C.e. |Book of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Torah
3rd century CE | |early Christian | Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
A.D. 30 |The early Christians were so imbued by the words and deeds of their Master, that they were driven to live them out in their daily lives
Around
A.D. 313 |Helped in building a system of aqueducts to provide water
Agriculture was introduced
Early 3rd AD |Artists brought new splendor to the art of the icon with gold leaf and semiprecious jewels
AD 1800 |Music of the Mass, sung a cappells (without instrumental accompani- ment) AD 1300
|Early Christian builders adapted structures that had long been used in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.
Early 3rd AD |They avoided the worldly learning of the Greeks with their philosophy and deceit
AD 300 |Dead Sea Scrolls found
AD 1947 | |Byzantium |The emperor was the sole and absolute ruler
313 C.E. |The Byzantine economy was the most advanced in Europe for many centuries. Economic foundation was trade
300 C.E. |Hand '' pump
Flamethrowers on board of naval ships around 300 C.E. |Icons (images) in divine worship '' mosaics around 300 C.E. |Nearly all written music that has survived from Christian Byzantium is religious chant and hymns around 500 C.E. |Byzantine Churches, the mosaic technique reached its artistic peak (Hagia Sophia) 532 AD |Byzantine philosophy is the study and teaching of traditional subjects of philosophy in the Greek language between c. 730 and 1453 |Little literature '' even saint’s lives - survives and even less art 700 CE | |Islamic |Between the 8th and 14th centuries, Islam brought spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of languages and customs |International trade center. Mechants imported leopards and rubies, silk, paper, and porcelain
7th century |Publication of al-jabr wa mugabalah, an Arabic adaptation of Hindu numerals to solve equations (called algebra in Europe) 7th through 13th century |Calligraphic, floral, and geometric Islamic motifs.
Islamic frescoes, carpets, ivories, manuscripts, textiles and ceramics
7th century |Music and poetry were intimately related, and local bards or wandering minstrels were the keepers of a popular oral verse tradition 7th century |Designed the official Muslim place of worship, the mosque.
Dome of the Rock by the 10th century |Achievement of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation
8th century |Poetry played an infinitely more important role than prose.
Qur’an holy book of Muslim religion
AD 750 | |
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MATRIX
CIVILIZATION |politics |society/ economics |technology |art |music |architecture |philosophy |literature | |Prehistoric |Establish- ments of large social entities
7 million '' 10,000 B.C.E. |Fossil remains of near-human or proto-human creature known as Hominids
7 million-10,000 B.C.E. |Tool and weapon making
20,000 B.C.E. |Paintings and carvings on walls of caves and surface of rocks
15,000 B.C.E. |Ancient music in most of Europe (1500 B.C.E) |Neolithic architecture
10,000 B.C.E. |Intimate association with nature
10,000 B.C.E. |Animism transmit information by way of symbols
8000 B.C.E. | |Mesopotamian |Believed their kings and queens were descended from the city gods, …show more content…
but never believed their kings were gods
8000 B.C.E. |Clay tokens used to tally goods Sumer developed the first economy. Babylonians developed the earliest system of economics
8000 B.C.E. |Metalworking, copper-working, glass making, lamp making, textile weaving, flood control, water storage, and irrigation.
Iron was introduced
Windmills employed
1700 B.C.E. |Bull man appears frequently in their art
8000 B.C.E.
Terracotta plaque “Queen of the Night”
1800 B.C.E. |Some songs were written for the gods but many were written to describe important events
3500 B.C.E. |Concentrates on temples, palaces, city walls and gates
2627 B.C.E. |Embodied certain philosophies of life, particularly ethics, in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose, and proverbs around
2000 B.C. |The finest literary work is the Epic of Gilamesh, recorded on clay tablets around 2000 B.C. | |Ancient Egyptian |Political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh “the law of the land is the mouth of the pharaoh”
3000 B.C.E. |Individuals of any class could rise in status by way of education.
3000 B.C.E. |Construction of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh’. Employ a simple form of the sundial, water clock, and glass
1450 B.C.E. |Their art comes almost exclusively from tombs and graves
1355 B.C.E. |Music was an integral part of religious worship. Harps, small stringed instruments, pipes, and sistrums often found buried with the dead
3000 B.C.E. |Great temples were built and most have survived. Example is the Great Temple of Amon-Ra, Kamak, ca 1220 B.C.E. |Egyptians venerated the pharaoh as the living representative of the sun god. They had an understanding of mathematics and knowledge of the heavens and the sun with relationship to the stars
3000 B.C.E. |From tomb and temple walls, papyrus rolls, come prayers and songs, royal decrees and letters, prose tales, and texts
1300 B.C.E.
| |Archaic Greek |New political structures started to be formed
3000 B.C.E. |Farming, sheep-herding, hunting, fishing, and trading. They learned about minting coins
3000 B.C.E. |Fire pottery styles
Red-figure pottery
Epictitus terracotta cup
510 .B.C.E. |Greek sculpture of the human body so evident as in Hellenic sculpture
700 B.C.E. |Development of the Orientalizing style mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration, and spiritual reasons around 500 B.C.E. |First temples built around 800 BC were made of wood |The rise of democracy, philosophy and theatre poetry around 500 B.C.E. |Revitalization of the written language around
300 B.C.E. | |Aegean |Had a theocracy consisting of a king, warrior/religious aristocracy, and subjects around 2000 B.C. |No traces of currency.
Standard weights were found around 2000 B.C. |Weapons, tools, and implements in stone, clay, bronze, and iron around 1840 B.C.E. |Objects carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in gold, silver, copper, and bronze. Vases of all kings around 2000 B.C. |Music was a vital part of religious ceremonies and for social rituals like weddings, funerals around 2000 B.C. |Architectural features, such as columns, friezes, and various mouldings, mural decoration, such as fresco- paintings around 2000 B.C. |Herodotus has been regarded as the father of modern historiography around 2000 B.C. |The Aegean written documents have not yet proved to be epistolary.
Clay tablets and discs around 2000 B.C | |Classical Greek |Alexander the Great carried Greek language and culture into North Africa and Central Asia, Hellenizing a vast part of the civilized world around 400 B.C.E. |Trade and fighting were necessary to Greek economy around 500 B.C.E. |Compilation of mathematics that includes geometry and number theory around 300 B.C.E. |Produced some of the most exquisite sculptures.
Architectural achievement of the Parthenon
490-430 B.C.E. |Principal musical instruments were the lyre and the kithara around 500 B.C.E. |We have more archaic temples that survive than we do classical temples around 490 B.C.E. |Belief in the worth. Focused on the role of reason and inquiry around 500 B.C.E. |Saw the dawn of Drama. Includes the works of Homer, the historians, playwrights, and philosophers around 300 B.C.E. | |Hellenistic |A new wave of Greek colonization which established Greek cities and Kingdoms in Asia and Africa around 300 B.C.E. |New agricultural techniques were developed and the spread of a relatively uniform currency around 300 B.C.E. |Hellenistic Greeks invent the catapult for use as an artillery weapon
400 B.C.E. |Statue known as Apollo Belvedere
400 B.C.E. |Characterized literature and music. The lyric poetry of Sappho and Pindar around 300 B.C.E. |Construction of utilitarian structures, such as lighthouses, theaters, and libraries. Circular sanctuaries and colossal Corinthian temples
The Altar of Zeus around 175 B.C.E. |Metaphysics gave way to science and practical philosophy around 300 B.C.E. |A great flowering of the arts, literature, and science occurred particularly in the period 280 to 160 B.C.E. | |Roman |An autocratic form of Government
The Law of the Twelve Tables around 449 B.C.E. |Rome’s economy remained focused on agriculture and trade around 700 C.E. |Romans use water power for milling grain
Julian Calendar on which the modern calendar is based around 101 B.C.E.
|Sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, and the interior of the Pantheon around 118 C.E. |Roman music theory was adopted from the Greeks, as were most Roman instruments around 130 C.E. |Built fifty thousand miles of paved roads, tenements, meeting halls, baths, and amphitheaters, the Pantheon 118 C.E.
Colosseum 70 C.E. |Romans respected and preserved the writings of Hellenic and Hellenistic thinkers
300 B.C.E. |Roman literature reveals a use of Latin prose for the purposes of entertainment, instruction, and record keeping around 300 B.C.E. | |Judaic |All Jewish political struggles were internal, and dealt primarily with either religious issues or issues of a particular Jewish community around 80 B.C.E. |Exported some important commodities, including high quality wheat, wine, and oil to Egypt, and trade was generally by sea around 700 B.C.E. |Judaic technology was largely based on a system of crafts around 700 B.C.E. |Jews have been involved in all the artistic genres--painting, sculpture, mosaic, fresco, architecture, and the design of religious and household implements, manuscript implementation
500 B.C.E. |Covers cantorial, synagogal
music
Instrument such as the uggav (small flute), the abbuv (a reed flute or oboe-like instrument)
500 B.C.E. |The Tabernacle and the two Temples in Jerusalem reflect the culture of the countries in which Jews live.
Chanting daily prayer
1300 B.C.E. |Philosophical activity carried out by Jews or in relation to the religion of Judaism
1380 B.C.e. |Book of Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Torah
3rd century CE | |early Christian | Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
A.D. 30 |The early Christians were so imbued by the words and deeds of their Master, that they were driven to live them out in their daily lives
Around
A.D. 313 |Helped in building a system of aqueducts to provide water
Agriculture was introduced
Early 3rd AD |Artists brought new splendor to the art of the icon with gold leaf and semiprecious jewels
AD 1800 |Music of the Mass, sung a cappells (without instrumental accompani- ment) AD 1300
|Early Christian builders adapted structures that had long been used in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.
Early 3rd AD |They avoided the worldly learning of the Greeks with their philosophy and deceit
AD 300 |Dead Sea Scrolls found
AD 1947 | |Byzantium |The emperor was the sole and absolute ruler
313 C.E. |The Byzantine economy was the most advanced in Europe for many centuries. Economic foundation was trade
300 C.E. |Hand '' pump
Flamethrowers on board of naval ships around 300 C.E. |Icons (images) in divine worship '' mosaics around 300 C.E. |Nearly all written music that has survived from Christian Byzantium is religious chant and hymns around 500 C.E. |Byzantine Churches, the mosaic technique reached its artistic peak (Hagia Sophia) 532 AD |Byzantine philosophy is the study and teaching of traditional subjects of philosophy in the Greek language between c. 730 and 1453 |Little literature '' even saint’s lives - survives and even less art 700 CE | |Islamic |Between the 8th and 14th centuries, Islam brought spiritual unity and cultural cohesiveness to people of a wide variety of languages and customs |International trade center. Mechants imported leopards and rubies, silk, paper, and porcelain
7th century |Publication of al-jabr wa mugabalah, an Arabic adaptation of Hindu numerals to solve equations (called algebra in Europe) 7th through 13th century |Calligraphic, floral, and geometric Islamic motifs.
Islamic frescoes, carpets, ivories, manuscripts, textiles and ceramics
7th century |Music and poetry were intimately related, and local bards or wandering minstrels were the keepers of a popular oral verse tradition 7th century |Designed the official Muslim place of worship, the mosque.
Dome of the Rock by the 10th century |Achievement of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation
8th century |Poetry played an infinitely more important role than prose.
Qur’an holy book of Muslim religion
AD 750 | |