that made profound advances after the defeat of the Persian invaders and the Greek discovery of individual worth and freedom. Polykleitos‚ was a Greek bronze sculptor of the fifth and early fourth century BC. He was born at Sikyon in about 480 BC‚ learned his craft at the school of Argos and was famous for statues of gods and athletes cast in bronze. Along with Phidias‚ he created the Classical Greek style‚ an essential element was the use of a relaxed and balanced pose. Furthermore‚ Polykleitos created
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produced Hellenistic art richly diverse in subject matter and new in stylistic developments. Hellenistic sculptures have realistic details‚ dramatic compositions‚ are expressive and theatrical. Epigonos‚ Dying Gaul‚ Pergamon‚ Turkey‚ Roman copy of bronze o;llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Between
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Colonial administrations Coercive labor systems Slave Systems Rise of Europe Scientific Revolution Enlightenment What were the major civilizations from 1450-1750? Major Civilizations 1450-1750 The Americas: Aztec‚ Inca Africa: Kongo‚ Benin‚ Oyo‚ Dahomey‚ Ashanti‚ Songhay East Asia: Ming‚ Qing‚ Tokugawa South Asia: Mughal What were some of the major continuities from 1450-1750? Continuities 1450-1750 Existing trade routes continued to be important to global exchange No sweeping
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as “The Spanish Frontier”‚ “Canada”‚ and “The West Indies”. He wasn’t exactly chronological in his writing‚ but rather used regions to organize the past. We learn in chapter two that many regions were being taken over by Europeans. For example‚ Benin‚ The Canaries‚ and Azores areas were being attacked for land by Iberians. The colonists brought diseases which changed the populations drastically. This also changed the environmental boundary that was there before any invasion‚ because cultures
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Islam is traditionally known to the Yoruba as Esin Male or simply Imale i.e. religion of the Malians. In fact‚ Islam was practiced in Yorubaland so early on in history‚ that a sizable proportion of Yoruba slaves taken to the Americas were already Muslim. Some of these Yoruba Muslims would later on stage the Malê Revolt (or The Great Revolt) which was the most significant slave rebellion in Brazil. On a Sunday during Ramadan in January 1835‚ in the city of Salvador‚ Bahia‚ a small group of slaves
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The Cities of ancient times are a wonder to us. How did they flourish? What did they do to survive? What technology did they learn and use? It is all these things that we search for when we try to uncover how the past led to the people of the present. Here we’ll learn what the Shang Dynasty of China was‚ what they accomplished‚ what problems occurred‚ and finally what became of them. The Shang Dynasty‚ or Yin Dynasty‚ was the first real historic Chinese Dynasty. It existed from around
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Portrait of a Whit-collar criminal. Summary: David Millar get rich dividend from crime. He has confessed to embezzling funds from six different employers over 20 year period. Miller returned to Wheeling and start work for Wheeling Bronze‚ in 1971. President of Wheeling Bronze discovered that several returned checks are missing. After an extensive search‚ worker undiscovered a number of canceled checks with forged signatures. He was given the choice of paying back the stolen money or going to jail. He
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Design / Materials / Layout / Technology / Decoration / Function: Stonehenge: * New geological research is currently being carried out to identify the sites of origin more accurately. How the stones were transported for over 250km (156 miles) to Stonehenge remains unknown‚ but it is probable that a combination of transport via water networks and hauling over land brought them to the site. The larger sarsen stones are a type of sandstone‚ a stone found scattered across southern England. Most
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© Kamla-Raj 2007 J. Soc. Sci.‚ 14(1): 81-86 (2007) Educational System in Nigeria Problems and Prospects L. O. Odia1 and S.I Omofonmwan 2 1. Universal Welfare Sustainable Community Development Center‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria 2. Department of Geography and Planning‚ Ambrose Alli University‚ Ekpoma‚ Nigeria E-mail: profomofonmwan@yahoo.com or odialucko@yahoo.com KEYWORDS Education; problems; prospects; standards; research and development ABSTRACT This paper examines the problems and prospects of
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How important was Polykleitos to the Development of the Kouros? In fifth century Greek free-standing sculpture Polykleitos and his works the Diadoumenos (430BCE) and the Doryphoros (440BCE) (which were originally bronze) are important in demonstrating the development of the Kouros as they highlight a great level of development in terms of the naturalism of a‚ sculpture‚ through the use of contrapposto and application of the ‘Cannon of Proportion’ which is attributed to Polykleitos. Whereas Polykleitos’
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