The bagpipe‚ though still widely used and recognized‚ is one of mankind’s oldest musical instruments. The bagpipe’s early ancestors can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt‚ Babylonia‚ as well as Mesopotamia. Those early versions were reed-sounding single-pipes or double-pipes. These pipes are also known chanters. The basic means of sound producing comes from the vibrating of a reed or double reed on the chanter under the pressure of the breath. The double-pipes are thought by some to have
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BIBLICAL LONGEVITY How is it possible that the characters of the Book of Genesis managed to live to such an old age? As an example‚ Adam lived to be 930 years of age‚ Seth lived to be 912 years of age‚ Enos lived to be 905 years of age‚ Cainan lived to be 910 years of age‚ Mahalaleel lived to be 895 years or age‚ Jared lived to be 962 years of age‚ Enoch lived to be 365 years of age‚ Methuselah lived to be 969 years of age‚ Lamech lived to be 777 years of age and Noah lived to be 950 years of age
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Midwives practiced obstetrics Palestine • Developed Mosaic Code of organized method of disease prevention. • Talmudic regulations for slaughtering of animals‚ childbirth and hygiene. • Isolated people with communicable diseases. Babylonia • Gentlemen paid surgeons with silver coins for surgery • Believed illness a punishment for sin and used incantations to purify body • Surgery was more advanced than internal
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Alexander the Great carried to the east the Greek culture which was already spreading over the Mediterranean and throughout Babylonia and Egypt. Alexander took his conquest and army as far as India and new information was taken back to Greece. This new information encouraged the shift from abstract thinking to a more imperial way of thinking. The conquest of Mesopotamia in 331
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cuneiform‚ religious concepts found in Mesopotamian culture ○ Lugal=Big Man (their leader‚ king) ■ Sargon I ● Known lugal of citystate Akkad 2350 BCE ● First to unite man cities under one king and capital ● Akkadian state fell around 2230 BCE ○ Babylonia ■ Largest and most important city in Mesopotamia ■ Founded by Semitic Amorites ■ Capital of Hammurabi in 18th century BCE and NeoBabylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in 6th century BCE ○ Hammurabi (r. 17921750 BCE) ■ Made Babylon capital of “Old
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CHAPTER II Review of Related Literature Related Literature History of World Education With the gradual rise of more complex civilizations in the river valleys of Egypt and Babylonia‚ knowledge became too complicated to transmit directly from person to person and from generation to generation. To be able to function in complex societies‚ man needed some way of accumulating‚ recording‚ and preserving his cultural heritage. So with the rise of trade‚ government‚ and formal religion came the invention
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Babylonian Class Hierarchy & It’s Presence in Hammurabi’s Code of Law Upon reading articles and texts concerning Hammurabi’s Code of law‚ I made a connection between its context and the class hierarchy of early Babylonian civilizations. The structure of the code of law parallels the expectation or rights of those in the different class levels. There are standards that each may be held to‚ and deviations of those standards have differing penalties for the different classes of peoples. What I found
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realized from the fact that the production of one ton of steel requires about 100 tons of water. That is true for any other industries like textile‚ leather‚ jute etc. In light of this ancient civilisations like Mahenjodaro and Happa in India‚ Babylonia in Iraq were‚ in fact‚ river civilisations. That is true for China and Egypt as well. With rapid industrialization in the 20th century‚ growth of population and other human activities water has been a very valuable commodity today. It is believed
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INTRODUCTION As was mentioned in the introductory lecture on Mesopotamian civilization‚ the Sumerians were just one of many groups that lived in the Fertile Crescent that was the heart land of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were conquered and dominated by a number of groups who sought for ascendancy on the region and who ruled at different periods of time. The Babylonians who dominated the region after the conquering of the Sumerians were themselves overthrown by the Hittites and the Kassites. The
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that the act of manicures and pedicures started around 3200 B.C.! In Babylonia‚ men used to wear nail polish made of kohl to show what class they were in. If a man was of a higher class he wore black nail polish but if he was low class he wore green. Nail polish started there and expanded tremendously. Over the years painting nails became more and more popular than it originally was in 3200 B.C. Although unlike the men in Babylonia‚ we paint our nails as more of a pastime and less as a signal of class
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