Summary: Early Civilizations Matrix

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EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MATRIX
CIVILIZATION politics society/ economics technology art music architecture philosophy literature
Prehistoric establishments of large social entities like states Prehistoric warfare Start using the tools all art produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history. followed by ancient music in most of Europe (1500 BCE) and later musics in subsequent European-influenced areas, but still exists in isolated areas Neolithic architecture Intimate association with nature.Animism Transmit information by way of symbols.
Mesopotamian The Mesopotamians believed their kings and queens were descended from the city gods, but, unlike the
One of the economic foundations of the empire was trade. Flamethrowers date from the Byzantines, who used hand-pumped flamethrowers on board of naval ships almost entirely concerned with religious expression and, more specifically, with the impersonal translation of carefully controlled church theology into artistic terms Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire composed to Greek texts as ceremonial, festival, or church music Prime examples of early Byzantine architecture date from Justinian I's reign and survive in Ravenna and Constantinople, as well as in Sofia (the Church of St Sophia). Closely connected with ancient-pagan Philosophy may be defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its