The first full civilization emerged by 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley in the Middle East. Relatively soon thereafter civilization developed along the Nile in Egypt‚ and later spread to other parts of the Middle East and one region in Africa. The advent of civilization provided a framework for most of the developments in world history. Additionally‚ the specific early civilizations that arose in the Middle East and Africa had several distinctive features‚ in political structure
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words‚ the early Sumerians were the first to use language in a permanent way. Writing on clay tablets took up much more work than most would think. You had to go to school to learn how to be a scribe‚ meaning only children of the highest people in Sumer could become scribes (OI). Cuneiform‚ other that for the reasons listed
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THIS CAN HELP 7th GRADE STUDENTS STUDY FOR THE TEST. IT IS THE REAL TEST ANYHOW. The two neighboring sister-states of ancient Mesopotamia competed for dominance and as such grew widely different in character. History Assyria took its name from the town of Ashur‚ which was the main town but it may also apply to the wide empire that was captured and ruled by the Assyrians. Assyria had better climate than Babylonia owing to the fact that it was located in a highland region north of Babylonia
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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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3. Define the term civilization. Discuss and evaluate the different approaches of your textbook and the lectures to this issue. Support your discussion with specific examples from the early histories of Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ and China. • Civilization: Civilization is the state of condition of persons living and functioning
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the takeovers from wars. Sumerians coming from Mesopotamia (now known as southern Iraq) were the people most known because of their invention of writing. The writing known as cuneiform‚ using pictorial language to keep track of transactions. Ancient Sumer was made up of a dozen or so independent city states so it was not unified. Along with civilization came religion and social classes. Who were early humans praising? They were praising the Gods. As for social classes it was rulers and priests at the
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Introduction to bronze tools • 3‚000 BCE: Mesopotamian husbands veiled their wives on marriage → to protect the wife’s honor • 2‚700~2‚200 BCE: Old Kingdom period ‚ Egypt • 2‚600 BCE: First great pyramid • 3‚400~2‚200 BCE: Akkadian Empire conquers Sumer • 2‚052~1‚786 BCE: Middle Kingdom period → civilization spreads to Upper Nile. • 2‚000 BCE: Sumerians wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh ( world’s oldest story) • 2‚000 BCE: Sumerians produced the potter’s wheel‚ invented glass‚ introduced useof fertilizer
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University of Phoenix Faculty Material EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MATRIX CIVILIZATION politics society/ economics technology art music architecture philosophy literature Prehistoric establishments of large social entities like states Prehistoric warfare Start using the tools all art produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory)‚ beginning somewhere in very late geological history. followed by ancient music in most of Europe (1500 BCE) and later musics in subsequent European-influenced areas‚ but still
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2/7/14 ART 2313 STUDY QUESTIONS FOR TEST #1 Terminology: 1. Formal analysis: describing appearance 2. Medium: what something is made from a. Wood‚ metal‚ canvas‚ etc. 3. Style: characteristics of an artwork—can be characteristic of an artist‚ culture‚ period etc. 4. Stylization- often simplified‚ abstracted or “generic” representation 5. Iconography- subject/meaning/symbolism of a work a. Literal- narrative or story b. Symbolic- political‚ religious‚ etc. c. Aesthetic- decorative
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences‚ throughout both of these civilizations from back to 3‚500 B.C. The political and social structures in these civilizations were different and the same in their own way. The political differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia included hierarchy power‚ land control‚ and centralized government. The similarities between both civilizations are social class‚ male patriarchy‚ and kings. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had differences of their political
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