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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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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EXAM I VOCABULARY Paleolithic and Neolithic Vocabulary to Know: * Paleolithic – 40‚000-8‚000 BC Old Stone Age‚ mankind produced * Neolithic – New Stone Age 1. Comes about at different times at different locations due to ice age ending unevenly 1. Development of organized system of agriculture (replacing hunting gathering community) 1. Domestication of animals 1. Permanent architecture (year round settlements) * Iconography – pictoral representations * sculpture
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writing‚ learned to make pottery with the use of metals‚ and complex social structures with class systems. One of the greatest contributions from the Mesopotamia civilization was the first written law‚ Code of Hammurabi. According to our text‚ “The 282 statutes‚ preserved on an eight-foot-high stele (stone slab)‚ show how the Babylonians dealt with a variety of issues from trade contracts and regulation‚ debt‚ marriage‚ and property rights to major crimes such as adultery and murder.” (Mahdavi‚ 2012)
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Figure from Ain Ghazal‚ Jordan‚ ca. 6750-6250 1-16 Catal Huyuk‚ ca.6‚000 B.C. 1-18 Landscape‚ Catal Huyuk‚ ca.6150 B.C. 1-20 Stonehenge‚ ca. 2250-1600 B.C. Chapter 2: The Art of Ancient Near East 2-1 Hammurabi and Shamash‚ detail Stele of Hammurabi‚ Susa‚ Iran‚ ca. 1780 B.C. 2-2
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Running Horned Woman 5. Bushel with ibex motifs 6. Anthropomorphic stele 7. Jade cong 8. Stonehenge 9. The Ambum Stone 10. Tlatilco female figurine 11. Terra cotta fragment Ancient Mediterranean 12. White Temple and Ziggurat 13. Palette of King Narmer 14. Statue of votive figures‚ from the Square Temple at Eshnunna 15. Seated Scribe 16. Standard of Ur 17. Great Pyramida and Great Sphinx 18. King Menkaura and Queen 19. The Code of Hammurabi 20. Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall 21. Mortuary Temple of
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The Buddhist Stele Commemorating Song Shixing (宋始兴) appears to be a thin stele decorated with the head of Chi‚ the hornless dragon. The top and body of the stele are in one piece yet the base is nowhere to be found. Six dragons are carved on the top of the stele façade‚ hovering with their head facing down and holding the body of the stele in their mouths. On the uppermost part of the stele‚ a niche with gable roofs and round arch is engraved‚ inside which sits the Maitreya Buddha wearing a crown
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------------------------------------------------- Mesopotamia From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Mesopotamia (disambiguation). Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia Mesopotamia (from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία: "[land] between rivers"; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين (bilād al-rāfidayn); Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ(beth nahrain): "land of rivers") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system‚ corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria
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EU-Phrates River Got a new lesson for you about ancient Mesopotamia The Euphrates River and Tigris River form the base of civilization Mesopotanians lived long ago Dedicated god’s and had control By the EU-Phrates River (x4) They believed in many gods‚ this is polytheism Shamash was the god of sun; Dagon of vegetation By the EU-Phrates River (x4) Akkadian was what they spoke‚ wrote on clay tablets some call notes They had temples called ziggurat They kept themselves united under Hammurabi’s
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are primarily dedicated to a person‚ depiction of living family members indicates the necessity‚ for a public display of the family relationship. The grave stele of Thrasynos‚ parents are bidding farewell to their Son as he journeys into the afterlife. 1 The naturalism of the Kroisos is in distinct contrast to the realism of the grave stele of Thrasynos. The Korisos represents the ideal version‚ rather than an individual. The Korisos‚ which means "young man"‚ discovered in Anavyssos on the
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