river and the Euphrates river. Hammurabi was the King of Babylon‚ he was a harsh ruler and that’s why I’m writing about Hammurabi’s Code. He was the first person recorded to make laws and he wrote two hundred and eighty-two laws that were written on a stele which is a big stone. Hammurabi was told by Shamash to write the laws‚ some might say he is a fair ruler but he was NOT. Was Hammurabi’s Code unfair? Yes‚ because his punishments were too harsh the laws weren’t equal to women and children and his
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Insight to the Past: The Code of Hammurabi Matthew Bogdanowicz Western Civilization I Hist 100 220 Professor Leslie Johnson June 26‚ 2014 Preface: Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. His attributes were he extended his empire northward from the Persian Gulf to the Tigris and Euphrates River and west to the Mediterranean Sea. He united the area into one extensive empire‚ Mesopotamia‚ which in present day is known as Iraq. (Ancient Mesopotamia) Hammurabi created a list
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named Hammurabi. The story goes that Hammurabi was visited by Shamash‚ the god of justice‚ who bestowed on Hammurabi the laws that we know as “Hammurabi’s Code”. Hammurabi used this very code on his own people at the time of his rule. When he died‚ a stele carved from black diorite was etched with a carving of Hammurabi and Shamash‚ a prologue‚ a collection of the two hundred eighty two laws‚ and an epilogue‚ stating how the laws should be followed. Some of these laws people might call controversial
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accomplish in the round‚ and is the typical technique used both for architectural sculpture‚ which is attached to buildings‚ and for small-scale sculpture decorating other objects‚ as in much pottery‚ metalwork and jewellery. Reliefs may also decorate steles‚ upright slabs‚ usually of stone‚ which contain sculpture or sometimes just inscriptions. The techniques used in sculpture include assemblage which is joining two or more odds and ends to form a composition‚ modelling which is the manipulation of
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This chapter is about Art of the Ancient Near East. This is a period that began around 2254BCE when Akkadian ruled Naramsin. This period in time begins with cities such as Sumer‚ Akkad‚ Lagash‚ Babylon and Mari‚ Assyria‚ Neo-Babylonia‚ Anatolia‚ and ends with the Persia. The east in terms of art history is one of the most influential regions‚ because it had many civilizations‚ and each civilization had its own art. In Mesopotamia’s agriculture villages emerged around Asia minor and the ancient near
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Harappa A large well and bathing platforms are remains of Harappa’s final phase of occupation from 2200 to 1900 BC. Shown within Pakistan Location Sahiwal District‚ Punjab‚ Pakistan Coordinates 30°37′44″N 72°51′50″ECoordinates: 30°37′44″N 72°51′50″E Type Settlement Area 150 ha (370 acres) History Periods Harappan 1 to Harappan 5 Cultures Indus Valley Civilization Site notes Condition Ruined Ownership Public Public access Yes Harappans is an archaeological site in Punjab‚ Pakistan‚ about 24 km
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Name: Emily Cohort: USC Question: Hammurabi’s Code: Was it just? (Title) Introduction Paragraph Do you know about hammurabi’s code.Hammurabi is a king who ruled babylon.Hammurabi’s code are laws he made to protect his people.The purpose of his code was to protect his people.Hammurabi’s code is just for two reasons creation of the codes and property laws. Body Paragraph 1 Examples of just laws can first be found in the area of property law. Document D says “if a man has borrowed money to plant
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Menes‚ Amenhotep III‚ and Amenhotep IV were all rulers of Egypt at one point. They each contributed to art in some sort of way. Although‚ Amenhotep III contributed the most to the development of the arts. King Menes flourished from 2930 BCE to 2900 BCE. Menes was legendary as he was the first king of united Egypt. He joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy. Menes’ principal achievement is said to have been the foundation of Memphis on land that was reclaimed from the Nile by
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for starch were applied on section stem‚ root and leaf parts of Tridax procumbens. Stem cross-section of T. procumbens showed distinct ground tissues and fourteen to sixteen vascular bundles organized into a ring. The root sections show a central stele surrounded by solid ground tissues. The leaf sections did not show vascular bundles but the mesophyll layers are quite clear. For the purpose of histology‚ dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants were also compared in terms of structure and staining
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The ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia had some similarities as well as diffrencecs. Mesopotamia ran from the 3500-529 B.C.E which included the Sumerian period‚ Akkadian period‚ Babylonian period‚ Kassite period‚ and Assyrian period. Ancient Egypt lasted from 3200-663 B.C.E through the Old Kingdom‚ Middle Kingdom‚ New Kingdom‚ and Late Period (Cunningham‚ Reich). Both of these civilization’s geographical conditions played a major role in their ascension‚ and decline. They both had great
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