NOTES Geography * Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers in Greek. (rivers = Tigris and Euphrates) * It is located in western Asia. * It is also known as the world’s 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
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Civilizations are a group of humans living together in an organized way and have made advances in arts‚ science and technology‚ law or government. China is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations; it is the only ancient civilization that has continued to this very day. The lifestyles that the ancient Chinese had is extremely different then the lifestyle that the Modern Western Civilization which includes North America and Europe currently has because of the different way that people
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1 The Birth of Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Figure. Scholars believe this limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining
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A: Geography effects the Greek and Roman civilizations because Greece is very mountainous. It has high elevation with valleys. The Greeks were separated by its geography and made into city-states. These cities are independent because the mountains made it hard to move to different cities. Then the Greeks learned a new type of government through the city-states. This new form of politics was called democracy and it meant that the civilians themselves are the governments. The new government the Greeks
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BRANCHES OF GEOGRAPHY (BASED ON SYSTEMATIC APPROACH) 1. Physical Geography (i) Geomorphology Is devoted to the study of landforms‚ their evolution and related processes. (ii) Climatology Encompasses the study of structure of atmosphere and elements of weather and climates and climatic types and regions. (iii) Hydrology Studies the realm of water over the surface of the earth including oceans‚ lakes‚ rivers and other water bodies and its effect on different life forms including human life
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The glory of ancient civilizations is observable through the expansion of territory‚ cultural influence‚ and‚ most importantly‚ art production. The greatness of a civilization is easily measured by the quantity and quality of its art production. Over the course of history there have been many similarities between seemingly different cultures‚ and the most striking evidence to support this are the artifacts which remain to this day. Arguably‚ one of the most important civilizations in the world’s history
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444444 Another example of how Romans accepted and consumed homosexual culture comes from the example of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. He ordered the construction of a statue for the honor of his favorite slave whom he used to engage in sexual act with. The statue was erected in all of the sanctuaries and also in the major cities of the empire. The Emperor had fallen in love with the boy and used to travel with him to many destinations. It is in one of the journeys that the boy died. Conflicting theories
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences‚ throughout both of these civilizations from back to 3‚500 B.C. The political and social structures in these civilizations were different and the same in their own way. The political differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia included hierarchy power‚ land control‚ and centralized government. The similarities between both civilizations are social class‚ male patriarchy‚ and kings. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had differences of their political
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The term Viking is generally applied to medieval Scandinavian culture as it prospered between the 8th-11th centuries CE. Viking art‚ also known as Norse art or the art of Scandinavia included the British Isles and Iceland. It has design elements in common with Celtic‚ Germanic‚ Romanesque and Eastern European art. Besides being known as plunderers‚ the Vikings were also excellent tradesmen and known for being traders along their coasts. They traded timber‚ amber‚ furs‚ and slaves with Byzantine
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Introduction Culture is a broad term which has been described by various philosophers since decades. It has been claimed by Raymond Williams to be “…one of the two or three most complicated words in English language” (Williams‚ 1976). Different definitions of the term‚ culture may have distinct descriptive ways and criterion to evaluate human activity. It is important to define the broad base of the sophisticated term ‘culture’‚ in the sense used later in the paper‚ to narrow down the discussion
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