HISTORY OF PHARMACY Unique characteristics of HOMOSAPIENS – propensity to treat ailments‚ physical and mental with medicine INTRODUCTION * What is medicine? MEDICINE- is a mixture of myth and science‚ folklore and demonstrated facts. * How are medicines prepared? 1. Collection of active ingredients and drugs 2. Processed: and 3. Prepared for incorporation into medicaments PREHISTORIC PHARMACY SHANIDAR – oldest settlements‚ supports the contention that prehistoric people
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fate of it was dead and gone. This way they could control the pure existence of a threat against their community.16 If one broke the rules they would be punished by the old council of gods known as Annunak. Babylonian Enuma Elish (meaning When above the heaven) was created during the First Babylonian Dynasty. It is one of the most important creation stories of the Mesopotamian civilizations because‚ it records the political endeavors of the god Marduk.17
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The Babylonian law code of Hammurabi and the Oligarchy. Hammurabi was the 6th ruler in the Babylonian line‚ which managed in focal Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) from c.1894 to 1595 B.C. His family was slid from the Amorites‚ a semi-migrant tribe in western Syria‚ and his name mirrors a blend of societies:
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Exam 1: 1. List 2 data sources researchers use to estimate historical standards of living and explain what they can infer from these sources. List three indicators of economic development other than National Income measures (NI‚ GDP‚ or GNP‚ level‚ growth rate‚ or per capita) that are of interest to economists and explain what can be inferred from each of these indicators. ( Topic 1) 2. Explain in detail 3 weaknesses of per capita GNP (or GDP) as a measure of economic well-being. Although this
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Mathematical Happenings Greek mathematicians from the 7th Century BC‚ such as Pythagoras and Euclid are the reasons for our fundamental understanding of mathematic science today. Adopting elements of mathematics from both the Egyptians and the Babylonians while researching and added their own works has lead to important theories and formulas used for all modern mathematics and science. Pythagoras was born in Samon Greece approximately 569 BC and passed away between 500 - 475 BC in Metapontum‚ Italy
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peak my curiosity on the coming about of these goals. Even though we think about New Year’s Resolutions being a current object of our modern society‚ the origin of these resolutions can be dated back to the time Babylonians. Although it started as a tradition as a way for the Babylonians to pay off their debts and return borrowed objects to the God’s‚ each goal has its own meaning to each individual‚ thus changing along with the times and morphing into what we are familiar with today. Eventually
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The discussion of the theme of martyrdom and redemption through suffering in modern poetic dramas requires an investigation of the origin and the roots of martyrdom from earlier times. A historical perspective on the cosmological theme of birth and renewal is quite useful in this respect because the concept of martyrdom and sacrifice is as important in the pagan creed as it is in the recognized established human religions as Christianity and Islam. Drama and religious rituals went hand in hand in
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creations soon realized Apsu’s evil plans to destroy them. At first they cried‚ and then they succumbed to their fate. However somehow they had befriended Ea‚ the wisest God‚ who eventually killed Apsu and made his co-conspirator his slave. This is a Babylonian Myth. This myth later became the reason for a national holiday in which they "emphasized the reestablishment of order"‚ (Rosenberg.2006). The Creation of the Universe Ife Olorun‚ the god with the greatest knowledge‚ had a son‚ Obatala‚ who wanted
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* Who are the nomads? * Wanderers who travel from place to place in search of food CH 2 * Babylonians * What is a dynasty? * Family of rulers in which the right to rule passes on with the family * What is the Fertile Crescent? * Fertile land that lies within the crescent shaped area‚ Tigris-Euphrates Valley was within it * Hammurabi * Strong Babylonian ruler who created code of Hammurabi * Hebrews * Lived in eastern part of fertile crescent‚
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The Epic of Gilgamesh The Hebrew Bible: Genesis Metamorphosis Satapatha Brahmana The Epic of Gilgamesh deprived from ancient Mesopotamian times‚ infused with Babylonian culture. The Hebrew Bible is now referred to as the “Old Testament”‚ which is the text the Jewish faith now follow. The Metamorphosis myth was spawned from the Romans. The Satapatha Brahmana tale is from the sacred text of the Hindu people. Prior to the point of the flood story‚ the story was written in the third person omniscient
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