A Little History of the World Chapters 1-10 Chapter 2- 4000 BC Start to discover metals. Bronze Age begins. Chapter 3- 3100 BC Menes rules Egypt. 2500 BC Cheops rules Egypt. 2100 BC Rebellion in Egypt (then back to normal). 1370 BC Akhenaton rules Egypt believes in one God. Chapter 4- Days of Week based after Gods. Mesopotamia‚ unlike Egypt was ruled by many kings‚ most important tribes are Sumerians‚ the Babylonians‚ and the Assyrians. Sumerians had already built houses and
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Hammurabi’s Code: Just or Unjust? Mesopotamia‚ “the Land between Rivers‚” was one of the greatest civilizations of the world. It flourished around 3000 B.C. on the piece of fertile land‚ now Iraq‚ between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. In 1790 B.C.E.‚ King Hammurabi conquered the neighboring city-states of ancient Mesopotamia‚ creating a Babylonian empire. During his reign‚ Hammurabi established law and order‚ and in about 1790‚ he had about 300 laws governing family‚ criminal punishment‚
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When beginning a study in history one must approach it in a broader view. It is simply insufficient to look at one aspect of a society and claim that the society is now understood. Instead an in depth approach must be taken to determine not only the cultural pieces that identify a society but also the environmental impacts that molded the society into what we know it as today. In the following paragraphs I will be explaining how the different environments of Mesopotamia and Egypt shaped their cultural
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Examining a Moche Stirrup Jar At the Polk Museum exhibit I was struck by a Moche ceramic artifact titled “Stirrup Jar with Fanged Deity Effigy‚ Early Intermediate Period‚ 400-600 CE”. The base of the jar was molded into a sphere (with a flat bottom surface) which acts as the “body”‚ sporting painted arms and items held within each hand. The deity also appears to be wearing some kind of cloak‚ most notably indicated by the bow that is tied at the base of its neck. The head of the creature is
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This building is known as the Fishbourne Roman Palace‚ located in the village of Fishbourne‚ Chichester in West Sussex and was built around first century AD. Scholars believe the British client king Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus was most likely the owner of the palace and gardens. Cogidubnus was a ‘Roman groomed’ Briton who was in control of party of southern Britain around this time. This image displays a plan for the palace mapped out through excavation done by Barry Cunliffe in 1960s. It gives
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ANGELES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION Mac Arthur Highway‚ 2011 Angeles City‚ Philippines COLLEGE OF NURSING A.Y 2010-2011 THe flood of noah and the flood of gilgamesh IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS IN HUMANITIES Submitted by: Letran‚ Rachelle Anne S. BSN 11 – 6 Submitted to: Mrs. dorothy joy macaranas (PROFESSOR) Submitted on: April 28‚ 2011 ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Skeptics claim that the flood
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Retrieving the Plant by Malachi Coan‚ 6th Grade The valiant king of Urek‚ Gilgamesh‚ was on his last quest. He wanted to find out how to live forever. He had been searching for months through colossal mountains and past scorching deserts‚ and had learned about the Plant of Eternal Life found in the deepest‚ darkest part of the ocean. After discovering that the Euphrates River would carry him to his destination‚ he tied rocks to his ankles and plunged into the icy cold
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Lilith Lilith‚ in Jewish folklore‚ demon that is an enemy of newborn children. The name Lilith is etymologically related to the Sumerian word lil (wind)‚ not to the Hebrew word laylah (night)‚ as was long supposed. Like the Sumerian wind demon and its later Babylonian counterpart‚ Lilith was regarded as a succubus‚ or female version of the incubus. In the popular imagination‚ Lilith eventually became confused with Lamashtu‚ the Babylonian child-slaying demon. The only biblical reference to Lilith
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Anatoliy Sirotinsky Professor Norris World Literature 14 October 2010 The Past Disproving the Present In today’s primarily Judeo-Christian society nearly every person has knowledge of Noah’s Ark and the associated flood story but‚ only a handful of those people have been exposed to the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh. By observing the similarities in both stories one should come to realize that one of these stories must have been written before the other. According to Britannica‚ the
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Unit One Assignment: Ashurnasirpal II I have entered into the palace of the great Ashurnasirpal II‚ and am approaching the throne room to await my meeting with the king. In front of me are two Lamassu figures that guard the entrance‚ Colossal statue of a winged lion from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Fig. 1). I am immediately in awe of the sheer size of this pair of sculptures‚ they each stand over ten feet tall‚ towering over individuals who would like to enter the throne room. The
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