ZIGGURATS Part 2 Religious temples were built on flat platforms‚ growing higher and bigger‚ until eventually the Mesopotamians built stepped temples. Over hundreds of years‚ these temples grew significantly in size. These mud-brick towers were called ziggurats and were being constructed in Sumerian cities by 2000 B.C. The ziggurat was a huge platform‚ often decorated with mosaic or trees‚ with a series of smaller platforms on top. The stepped pyramid had stairs leading to the top‚ the sacred spot
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groups affords an excellent illustration of the parts of a temple complex of the terrace type normal in the Early Dynastic period. The Palace at Mari * The Palace at Mar was founded in the late millennium B.C and endured until its destruction by Hammurabi of Babylon. Assyrian Architecture Fort Shalmanester ‚ Nimrud * Fort Shalmanester‚ Nimrud was built by Shalmanester III (859-824 B.C) outside the citadel‚ which he used as the administrative capital. The Fort served as palace‚ barracks‚ arsenal
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with people around them for the products they lacked SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1. One of the first writing systems – Cuneiform 2. Invented wheel‚ the sail‚ the plow 3. First to use bronze. Empires 1. Sargon of Akkad (Akkadian Empire)- 1st empire 2. Hammurabi of Babylon (Babylonian Empire)- 1st law code Egypt: GEOGRAPHY Nile River 1. Egypt’s settlements arose along narrow strip of land made fertile by the river 2. Yearly/predictable flooding and harvesting- agriculturally wealthy 3. Intricate network
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Century BC. "In 16th Century BC Egypt‚ a death sentence was ordered for members of nobility‚ who were accused of magic. They were ordered to take their own life. The non-nobility was usually killed with an ax"(Burns). During the 18th Century BC‚ King Hammurabi of Babylon had a code that arranged the death penalty for 25 different crimes although murder was not one of them (Burns). The very first legal executions came in the United States was during the Revolutionary War against Great Britain. British
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From the time of king Hammurabi in 1800BC societies have tried to define human rights. From this time the first official code (set of laws) was made. Throughout history individuals such as Cyrus‚ Buddha‚ Confucius‚ Socrates‚ Jesus Christ and Muhammad have influenced the collective thinking of societies in order to influence their views on the rights of individuals. On the 10th December in 1948 the United Nations brought together the collective thinking of these great leaders‚ wrote them down and
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The oldest evidence‚ discovered in 1896AD and dated to around 1200BC‚ which mentions the name of the Israelites is the Merneptah Stele. Archaeologists‚ historians and Egyptologists indicate that the reference on the stone pillar refers to a tribe or group of people that lived in the highlands. In the past 150 years‚ archaeologists have confirmed that the population in the highlands of Canaan dramatically increased from just a few villages to a few hundred villages with a total population of possibly
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investigated. “Women were killed by their husbands for reasons such as talking back‚ scolding and nagging‚ and miscarrying children” (Erez). Women in particular have had no protection in law against violence in the home. In 1800 BC‚ “The Code of Hammurabi decreed that a wife was subservient to her husband and that he could inflict punishment on any member of his household for any transgression (Duquette-Hoffman). This demonstrates that men had every right to abuse his wife and therefore‚ women were
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It was written in the mid-17th century BCE. The original author is unknown but it was a mankind who wrote the story and it dates back to the reign of the Babylonian King Hammurabi. Saving and reconstructing mankind was the main content of the story. This story was written to paint why and how humans came into being. It also talks about the origins of the gods. This story is somewhat biased because it talks about gods and goddesses
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After the Agricultural Revolution‚ the rise of civilizations scattered around the world‚ each one having various features that formed from their people and the land. Two civilizations that honed similarities and differences‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ grew and adapted alongside river valleys—the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Nile respectively. Both civilizations turned to control and unify their people through ideas of class hierarchy and kingship. However‚ Mesopotamian life differed from Egyptian
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local government were non-Persians. His government was a monarchy (kings/queens) and it was a centralized government. According to the economy and the wealth of each province‚ determined how much taxes would cost for that year. Like the great King Hammurabi‚ Darius adopted rules and laws from the people in which he conquered. Darius then drew a single code of laws in which the people within the empire had to abide by.”He did not abolish the existing laws of individual lands or peoples‚ nor did he impose
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