1. Cuneiform- Cuneiform is Sumerian Writing that is a style of pictogram. It was written using a reed stylus and made wedge shaped impressions on clay tablets. They were then baked or dried in the sun to make them hard and virtually indestructible. Cuneiform evolved over time into something more advanced as civilizations kept rising and falling in Mesopotamia. Some examples of things Cuneiform was used for are tallies of cattle or other live stock by herders‚ lists of taxes and wages payments‚ contracts
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Seated Statue of Queen Hatshepsut ‚ white limestone (29.3.2)‚
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Sumerian lives were spent serving the gods in the form of man-made statues. There was no organized set of gods; each city-state had its own patrons‚ temples‚ and priest-kings. The Sumerians were probably the first to write down their beliefs‚ which were the inspiration for much of later Mesopotamian religion. Sumerians believed that the universe consisted of a flat disk. While the Mesopotamian ’s didn ’t have
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Fire Marriage and magic Business Home and Homelife The sea‚ horses and earthquakes The sky. Dio Crysostomos (97 A.D) declared the image of Zeus so powerful that‚ "If a man‚ with a heavy heart from grief and sorrow in life‚ will stand in front of the statue‚ he will forget all these." Athena (Patron goddess of Athens and daughter of Zeus) Heaven War‚ wisdom and crafts. Evidence of Athena being the patron goddess is the Athenian silver tetradrachm from 454-404 BC. Like on the coin‚ she’s generally depicted
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civilization in the West‚ Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian‚Babylonian and Assyrian empires‚ all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age‚ it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrianand Neo-Babylonian empires. The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC‚ when it was conquered by theAchaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC
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After viewing the statue of Memi and Sabu and the seated statue of Gudea‚ some similarities can definitely be found but digging deeper‚ other meanings are there as well. It was common in the fourth Dynasty for sculptures and statues to be made to honor the dead or to ensure that they are well known and remembered for future generations. Many different areas of the world practiced this and hence there are quite a few styles and materials used‚ as well as the overall meaning and purpose of its creation
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The Harappans and Sumerians are distinctly different politically. While the Sumerians developed the world’s first monarchy‚ the Harappans may have developed the first democracy. Very little evidence has been found of a king in the Indus Valley‚ only one white priest-king idol and a silver crown; not enough to establish that the "royalty" were the rulers. Instead the empire was divided into regions with half a dozen cities functioning as capitals and was governed by a group of people. Archeologist
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Vanerpool‚ 1949 shows us an excavation of the site. “For the first time the actual remains of chryselephantine statues – statues of gold and ivory – such as the Greeks made for their greatest and most holy shrines.” This shows how important the site of Delphi was the ancient world with the use of gold for the statues of the Oracle and for in the temples. The materials used in Greek temples “where always of the most importance to the architects‚ priests‚ and officials
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years 3500 and 1900 BC the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was the home of the Sumerian people. The Sumerians were one of the earliest civilisations to emerge in the world‚ they discovered city blocks‚ the sailboat‚ wheeled vehicles‚ dikes‚ irrigation‚ canals‚ jewellery‚ the pottery wheel‚ copper tools‚ algebra‚ the arch and the first superhero‚ Gilgamesh. The Sumerians also invented the first known writing system‚ by using cuneiform script on clay tablets. In the 19th
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Anakapalle city is a revenue Division part of Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh‚ a state in India. The Anakapalle town is famous for its jaggery market. Its market is ranked second in India in terms of jaggery imports/exports.[1] Anakapalle is also a very busy and famous business center in this region. Many people from the rural areas around the town cites Anakapalle as their destination for their shopping and medical needs. 20% of Anakapalli people
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