The Ancient World Over the weekend I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to further expand my knowledge on the Ancient World and to look at antiquities from ancient civilizations. I found many objects related to discussions we have had in class and civilizations that we learned about. According to historians‚ history started about 5500 years ago in Western Asia. This is the span of recorded history‚ which was possible with Cuneiform‚ a writing system by a people known as the Sumerians
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people started living near water sources. They used the water mostly for bathing‚ drinking‚ and cooking. As the years passed‚ living near water become more and more of an advantage. Soon came the invention of boats‚ this greatly increased the population near water. Today‚ many cities around the world are located near large rivers and lakes‚ or near an ocean. Even now‚ there are still many advantages to cities being located near water. One big advantage of having cities near water sources is transportation
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Mohammed Sultan Prof. Patricia Hamlen Humanities 11/04/2014 Ancient China The Ancient China goes to 500 B.C. and is known to be the longest civilization until now. China has been ruled by the emperor’s since the beginning of the Chinese civilization until 1911 when the Chinese revolution took place. They used the same language and writing for over 6000 years. Then They created bronze weapons and invented the crossbow. The Great Wall of China
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CheckPoint: Eastern Religious Philosopher Quotations Siddhartha Gautama Buddha - "Health is the greatest gift‚ contentment the greatest wealth‚ faithfulness the best relationship." o I chose this quote because Siddhartha devoted his life to find balance and clarification. He grew up with wealth and being shielded from human suffering‚ and wanted to search for something deeper. This quote shows that he found something deeper from the materialistic life he led early on (s9.com‚ 2009). Lao Tzu
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earliest urban civilizations. (arose around: 3500 bc) * Mesopotamia‚ known as “the cradle of civilization”‚ was the centre of Sumerian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian‚ and Chaldean civilizations. * The area now forms most of modern Iraq‚ south-eastern Turkey‚ and eastern Syria. * The natural wealth of Mesopotamia has always attracted people from poorer neighbouring regions‚ and its history is one of continuous migration and invasion. * The growth of date palms in the south provides a rich supply
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Ancient India India is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Its ancient history dates back further than most and has many periods. Very little is known about the earliest inhabitants of India. Ancient tools found in the Soan Valley and South India are the earliest evidence of humans in India discovered so far. Some of the tools date back to the Paleolithic Age – 400‚000 to 200‚000 years ago‚ other tools date to the Mesolithic Age and the Neolithic Age (8000 BC – 4000 BC). The first
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Catapults were one of the most terrorizing and powerful weapons of Ancient Greece and Rome. They were able to destroy enemy defense and turned sieges in favor of the offensor. They also operated with deadly precision and could fire massive boulders huge distances. (Foley and Soedel 5). Catapults were some of the biggest engineering marvel of Ancient times‚ and marked the first time many engineering and management techniques that we see today were used. And these new engineering practices let the
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Religion on Adolescents How Religion Can Affect an Adolescent’s Well Being By Max Terrien April.11.2013 Eastern Religion RELS 1275 1. Introduction Young adults and adolescents are at a stage where they are energetic‚ young and full of life. This is the stage before growing up to be an adult‚ who needs a job and need to act mature. In our modern society‚ we hear more news about teenagers that has had an accident from drug use‚ alcohol‚ and even unprotected sex. It is now a vicious
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The coal strike in eastern Kentucky was a hard conflict in the 1930s. There were many challenges and discontent for the coal miners and their families. Coal miners formed strikes to oppose what was happening. The industrialization of mining was decreasing and becoming less produced. The coal strike is a good case study because of the reason the strike happened‚ the coal operators and police involved‚ and the hardships of the miners. The coal strikes had been happening for years before the 1930s
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The Art of Living As everyone knows‚ ink is something that can never be undone. It is something permanent and is very difficult to cover up or remove. It can be in a form as simple as a pen caressing a piece of paper or as complex as a needle drenched in ink‚ piercing through skin to form a different kind of art‚ known as a tattoo. As times are changing‚ tattoos seem to be getting a lot more common in my generation compared to previous ones. As tattoos become more popular‚ so do the criticisms.
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