represent actual things and objects. Mesopotamian writing was called Cuneiform. Cuneiform were pictographs. Egyptian writing was called Hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were also pictograms. Cuneiform was done on clay tablets‚ and Hieroglyphs was done on papyrus. Mesopotamian and Egyptian writing systems were similar because of the purpose of the use‚ and the pictogram writing style. Mesopotamian and Egyptian architectural monumental structures were different. Mesopotamia had monumental structures
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cubic conception where as the Head of Senusret III than Senusret III Khafre sculpture had more meaning than Senusret III head sculpture. In the class lecture video‚ Khafre wore the traditional costume‚ the lions throne represented authority‚ the papyrus and lotus represented his power over upper and lower Egypt‚ his headdress had a cobra on the back that signifies the God Ra‚ Horus is on the back of the throne‚ and he wear a fake beard that symbolizes
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Development of Man The early pre-humans were called Australopethecines which means “Southern Apes”. There were four species under this. a) Australopithecus ramidus b) Australopithecus afarensis c) Australopithecus africanus d) Australopithecus robustus Australopithecines were primates which had brains no bigger than the chimpanzee’s‚ shorter than us and have long arms because they are bipedal which means they walk using both their hands and feet. The oldest Australopithecine skeleton
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During the 19th century‚ there were open fields filled with plants and animals roaming through them. The plants that grew in the different fields were mushrooms (caused hallucinations)‚ yellow-orange fruits‚ coca leaves (cocaine)‚ poppy plants (opium)‚ and cannabis plants (marijuana); the animals were observed as they roamed the fields and ate from these plants. As the humans watched the animal’s behavior during and after eating the plants‚ they began to wonder as to how and why the animal’s demeanor
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BCM432 INFORMATION COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF DATA STORAGE GmanJye 2013 GmanJye 11/04/2013 Definition of Data Storage * * Storage Devices are the data storage devices that are used in the computers to store the data. The computer has many types of data storage devices. Some of them can be classified as the removable data Storage Devices and the others as the non removable data Storage Devices. * * Data storage can refer to anything with information recorded on it. Using
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World History H 27 September‚ 2013 Comparing Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece Alexis Windle Mr. Schugsta World History H 27 September‚ 2013 Word Count- 1‚332 Thinking about ancient civilizations is rather puzzling for me. Imagine no technological ways of communicating and not having many people to communicate with anyway. In the simplest ways‚ the first groups of people were able to create rather complex and often successful ways
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Ancient Egypt Project Before Ancient Egypt had farmers‚ they were hunting and gathering food to survive. Then they started moving closer to the rivers so that there crops would stay alive longer‚ and with them moving closer to the river that made more people start to live there with them. The reason Ancient Egypt is a complex civilization is‚ because it follows all seven indicators. Well-Organized Government One of the most important people in the government is the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh who
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on the other hand‚ have been around for many centuries- around 1800 BC‚ while the computer has only been around in the mid 20th century. Books have started off with being written on clay‚ stone‚ metal sheets and tree bark. Later to be written on papyrus scrolls‚ wax tablets‚ wood block printing‚ and manuscripts. It’s obvious to see that books are evolving to become more reliable and better as the years pass. I can see why someone would think that computers will soon replace books. The computer
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integer numbers. It has been calculated to two billion two hundred sixty million three hundred twenty one thousand three hundred sixty three digits (2‚260‚321‚363) by the Chudnovsky brothers in 1991. Pi can be dated back to the middle kingdom on a papyrus scroll written in about 1650 B.C. by a scribe named Ahmes. He finds the area of a circle using an irregular sort of pi. Around 200 B.C. a Greek mathematician named Archimedes found that Pi was between 3 10/70 and 3 10/71. Ptolemy was the next researcher
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could scratch marks in wet clay. About 2600 B.C.‚ the Egyptians wrote on the papyrus plant. Around 100 A.D.‚ the Chinese made paper from rags‚ on which modern-day paper-making is based. 3. Books and Libraries – output technologies (permanent storage devices) Religious leaders in Mesopotamia kept the earliest “books” The Egyptians kept scrolls. Around 600 B.C.‚ the Greeks began to fold sheet of papyrus vertically into leaves and bind them together. 4. The First Numbering System
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