University of Phoenix Material Ancient World Worksheet Complete the matrix section and the question section on the worksheet for each week. For each culture‚ identify the starting and ending dates of the culture‚ the structure of government‚ the role of the city government‚ and type of law created by the culture. Describe how the culture viewed the relationship between gods and people and how it defined citizenship. List the major events the culture experienced. The purpose of the matrix
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Venus of Willendorf from Willendorf‚ Austria 28‚000 – 25‚000 BCE Limestone Naturhistorisches Museum‚ Vienna Paleolithic - representation of a woman - female anatomy is exaggerated - serves as a fertility image - no facial features‚ just hair/hat - freestanding sculpture Statuettes of 2 worshipers from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)‚ Iraq 2700 BCE (early dynastic/Sumerian) Soft gypsum and inlaid with shell + black limestone Iraq Museum‚ Baghdad - represent mortals praying
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widespread support. A number of laws in the Code of Hammurabi facilitated marriage. Paragraph 138 of the code‚ for example‚ advocated women to find a second husband if the first one died or if he was captured. If the husband returned‚ however‚ the woman must return to him. When the man’s wife died‚ he usually remarried immediately‚ which indicates the value of staying married. In a way‚ all the laws regarding marriage in the Code of Hammurabi led to men having many children with multiple wives‚
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* Mt. Rushmore (made of granite) * Plymouth Rock (the actual rock‚ not the place) (made of dacite) * the Rosetta Stone (made of dacite) * the Easter Island Statues (made of several igneous rocks‚ including basalt) * the Code of Hammurabi (made of diorite) * the Roman Pantheon (made of granite) * rock samples brought back from the moon during the Apollo 15 mission (made of anorthosite‚ an igneous rock that has a texture and composition similar to granite) Submit your completed
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gathering. 4. What is the name of the area where Sumerians settled? Fertile crescent 5. Name the title of the first great literary work that came out of Mesopotamia. The Epic of Gilgamesh 6. Who did Hammurabi say dictated the laws found on the stele and known as the Law Code of Hammurabi? The Babylonians 7. What do we call the stone slab‚ shaped at the top like an oval‚ upon which ancient people carved artwork or writing? Celtic Art 8. How many periods do scholars divide the history of
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Valued qualities of Kings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 5000 years ago‚ as people discovered or invented more and more tools‚ agriculture replaced hunting and gathering became the main path food comes from. Because of the higher productivity agriculture has and agriculture’s need of settlement‚ people settled down from then on and cities came into being at that time‚ which happened at Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt at first. As the population grew up in these cities‚ people met with the need
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Western Civilization Essay The first two chapters of western civilization were really interesting. From my understanding‚ the historians mainly relied on documents to paint some type of picture of the past. There were no written records that existed for the prehistory of mankind. Nomads were the earliest form of human like people. They existed in Africa as long as three million years ago. The australopithecines were one of the first nomads to make simple tools. Homo erectus came on the scene
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According to the Code of Hammurabi‚ surgeons operating on free man get rewards but reversely‚ they get penalty if they operate on slaves; Moreover‚ anyone who helped slaves escaped would get death penalty. However‚ exceptional that Babylonian slaves were allowed to have their personal asset. The slavery in Ancient Babylon showed that this system has existed through scores of years. Slavery was also approved and applied to a large extent in that empire‚ for King Hammurabi had fixed laws about slavery
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million dollars yearly to imprison. Such an absurd amount of money should be spent on the rehabilitation of these troubled individuals rather than in prolonging their lives only for their own demise. Before reverting to the early philosophy of Hammurabi “an eye for an eye” America should look to its own foundation‚ the constitution‚ as well as compare the costs and benefits of such a policy being legal. Despite enormous protections offered by the federal and states constitutions throughout the United
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“All laws are rules but all rules are not laws” The fact that all laws are rules but all rules are not laws can be wholly feasible. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ a “law” is outlined as an enforceable body of official rules and regulations‚ established by people in authority who use them to govern the affairs of people in a society whereas a “rule” is a special category of law written by state agencies to support‚ clarify‚ or implement specific laws enacted by the legislature called
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