Religion has impacted civilizations since Paleolithic times. Ancient civilizations flourished with religion‚ as it influenced the virtues of ancient governments‚ art‚ architecture‚ and literature in Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ and the Hebrew culture. While the Hebrews‚ Mesopotamians‚ and Egyptians developed separate cultures‚ each have had religion shape the values of society by impacting the art‚ architecture‚ and literature. Hebrews were monotheistic and believed in Yahweh‚ the one true god. Literature
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other worldly beings they kept them happy. They believed that if the other worldly beings were unhappy horrible things would happen. In the center of every city there was a temple for the patron of the city. The ancient mesopotamians also had many ziggurats‚ which they used as temples.
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civilizations and their greatest accomplishments. The three Mesopotamian civilizations are: a. Sumerian b. Akkadian c. Babylonian - Mesopotamians discovered many of the basic tools we use today. The wheel‚ arch‚ chisel‚ saw‚ lever‚ and pulley were all invented during Mesopotamian times. These discoveries led to a knowledge of architecture‚ which was used in the ziggurats and Hanging Gardens of Babylon. - They created the first calendar system that divided the year
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Iraq in 1929 by the archeologist‚ Sir Leonard Woolley. In 1926 Leonard Woolley had been elected by the Pennsylvanian and British museums of Archeology and Anthropology to lead an excavation that would examine the surrounding area of the mysterious ziggurat of Ur. Along with his team of excavators‚ Woolley was the first to unearth the “Royal Cemetery” of Ur‚ a mass grave full of private burial chambers and massive “death pits”. Inside of tomb 789‚ dubbed the King’s Grave‚ were two lyres‚ a bull-headed
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Chapter 1 Notes - Prehistoric Period o Paleolithic Period "Old Stone Age"  Old and primitive period  Around 50‚000BC  Artwork consisted of cave paintings  Brutal period  Average life expectancy was about 20 years o Neolithic Period "New Stone Age"  Begins around 9‚000BC  Neolithic Revolution Agriculture o Allows people luxury of staying in one place; stability and performance o Cornerstone of civilization Domestic Architecture
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river systems (fig.1). A gulf was formed from a deeper penetrating sea line in earlier geographical periods‚ creating a plain of silt deposits that spanned the area between the two rivers‚ eventually populated by the Akkadians in the north and the Sumerians to the south. A heavily fluctuating environment proved difficult terrain to establish architectural settlement in the area; however an ingenious method of developing bricks was established through the utilisation of abundant mud and bitumen resources
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(Early River Civilizations) The four early river valley civilizations were the Sumerian/Mesopotamia‚ Egyptian‚ Harappan and Ancient China. All of these civilizations were located on fertile river beds to make planting crops much easier. They all made technological advances in their time span and set the ground for future generations. The Sumerian civilization also known as Mesopotamia/The Fertile Crescent is located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers….this is how it gets its name the Fertile
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Notes from Stearns’ text book World Civilization 1:1 The Neolithic Revolution (10-13) • Farming initially developed in the Middle East‚ the Fertile Crescent. Grains such as barley and wild wheat were abundant. Also‚ not heavily forested‚ and animals were in short supply‚ presenting a challenge to hunters. 10‚000 BCE to 8‚000 BCE. Notice: it took thousands of years for this “revolution” so not fast but profound for history. Agriculture was hard for many hunting and gathering peoples to
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A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia‚ Archaic and Classical Greece‚ Phoenicia‚ and early Italy. Cuneiform A system of writing in which wedgeshaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. Because so many symbols had to be learned‚ literacy was confined to a relatively small group of administrators and scribes. Foragers People who support themselves by hunting wild animals and
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01.15.2014 B.C.E. = C.E. B.C = A.D. Form - the visual aspects of art and architecture‚ line‚ shape‚ color‚ light‚ texture‚ space‚ math‚ volume‚ and composition. Style – the combination of form and composition that makes a work distinctive. Content – includes subject matter or meaning and a work of art. School of artists – a group of artist usually working at the same time and sharing similar style influences and ideas Iconography – identify and studying and subject matter and conventional
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