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    University of Phoenix Material Ancient World Worksheet Complete the matrix section and the question section on the worksheet for each week. For each culture‚ identify the starting and ending dates of the culture‚ the structure of government‚ the role of the city government‚ and type of law created by the culture. Describe how the culture viewed the relationship between gods and people and how it defined citizenship. List the major events the culture experienced. The purpose of the matrix

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    The Great Persephone Have you ever wondered how the ancient greeks explained the world’s mysterious actions. Persephone is one of the goddess that were made to help the greeks understand the natural and otherworldly events. Persephone holds the responsibility of changing the seasons. When she is with her mother on earth it is summer or spring and when she is with Hades it is winter or fall‚ this is only one of the major things that she controls. Persephone is a minor god but‚ she is just as important

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    would the world be like without astronomy? Many people would agree that the world would be put to a halt without it. Astronomy is one of the oldest forms of Physical Science‚ with its roots dating back as far as thousands‚ even millions of years ago. Astronomy contributed a lot to every civilization; it assisted people throughout history‚ it made up religion to most‚ while it also helped people determine when the correct time to begin planting. The beginning of Astronomy didn’t exactly begin with a telescope

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    Yosmery Perez Art History 11 3:00pm-5:50pm‚ Prof. Choi November 10‚ 2014 Ancient Greek Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace Period: Early–Middle Bronze Age Date: 3rd–2nd millennium B.C. Geography: Southwestern Arabia Culture: Greek Medium: Sandstone‚ quartzite Dimensions: H. 27 cm‚ W. 14.3 cm‚ D. 14.3 cm Classification: Stone-Sculpture Credit Line: Purchase‚ Fletcher‚ Louis V. Bell‚ and Rogers Funds‚ and The Tokyo Shimbun

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    Even though Venus‚ the Roman goddess of love and beauty‚ was important to the ancient Greeks‚ she still is today‚ to the people of modern society. There are two different myths about how Venus came to be. The first myth states that she came up from the sea as a fully developed woman‚ with Uranos being her father‚ and having no mother. The other myth says that she is the daughter of Jupiter‚ the king of the gods‚ and Dione. (Kamil 2). The Roman goddess Venus was so immensely beautiful‚ that she could

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    Q5.A) Theogony is the fictional literary work the best for the ancient Greece because Theogony means the birth of the gods‚ this poem is from the 8 the century BC. First‚ it was one of the first to put humans at the center of the universe. Unlike the animal deities of Egyptians and Mesopotamians‚ the god of Greeks is human inform. Second‚ it is hymn of Zeus‚ the king of gods and men‚ but it involves the ancestor of the world and the other gods. Third‚ the poem shows the creation gods and universe

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    yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand‚ and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition‚ dating back to the ancient Greek orators‚ teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about‚ just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know." "Don’t confuse simplicity‚ though‚ with simplemindedness. A good writer can express an extremely complicated

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    The ancient Greece city-states had several different forms of government‚ monarchy‚tyranny‚ oligarchy‚ democracy‚ and aristocracy‚ each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Not all city-states maintained a uniformly way of government‚ and not each city-state maintain a single type of government during that time period. Depending on where you were and when you were determined what government type. A monarch by definition from the website dictionary.com is “a hereditary sovereign‚ as a king

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    ’status quo’. It presents the opportunity for evolution and possibly‚ even revolution. So just as there would be as many to embrace it‚ there would an an equal force to deter it. This can even be seen in generational works‚ going as far back as the Ancient Greek tales of Prometheus. Prometheus‚ represented by the works of Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound) and Hesiod (Theogony/Works and Days)‚ is demonstrated in light and dark differences between the two author’s tales. Both bring the world views of their

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    In a society that was purely patriarchal and misogynistic‚ women in the ancient world had few rights. Men and women were usually separated into different worlds‚ each with their own set of responsibilities and rules to follow. It is hard to fully define what women were like in antiquity simply because there can be no such thing as a “typical woman”‚ women differ from polis to polis and depended on social and economic background. The one thing that was expected of any woman was to belong to citizen

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