leather scrolls and tablets over centuries‚ and the authors included kings‚ shepherds‚ prophets and other leaders inspired by God. Thereafter‚ other scriptural texts were written and collected by the Jewish people during the next 1‚000 years. About 450 BC‚ all of the Jewish scriptures were
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Bank Reconciliation Statements (With answers) A. Purpose of a bank reconciliation It should be prepared regularly as part of the internal control system of the business to check: a) the accuracy of the cash book b) the accuracy of the bank statement c) that undue delay is not occurring between payments‚ receipts and their clearance by the bank d) to discover payments made and items received by the bank not entered in the cash book B. Reasons for differences in bank statement and cash
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Latin American history. Is it indigenous? Who painted it‚ carved it‚ crafted it? Is it colonial? How was it discovered? Found buried in the Sacred precinct‚ it was much older than the Aztecs. This mask belonged to the Olmecs between 1200 and 400 BCE. The Aztecs had a burial ritual for these
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athlete figures‚ are thus regularly shown ’at ease’‚ one leg relaxed‚ with a complementary shift in the shoulders‚ and the whole emphasized by contrasts of rigid and relaxed in limbs. The new style is best expressed in the Parthenon marbles of about 450-435 BC but there was a preceding style of some importance - the Early Classical‚ sometimes called the Severe Style‚ which is exemplified in the sculptures for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Here the figures are mainly lifelike but drapery forms are
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of the Galilee‚ or what is today Occupied Palestine (Israel). Beirut‚ the capital of present-day Lebanon‚ its largest city and principal port‚ is located almost mid-way on the coastal line of the country.  Ancient History of Lebanon (2700 BCE 7th century CE) The history of Lebanon is almost as old as the earliest evidence of mankind. Lebanon was the homeland of Phoenicia; an ancient civilization among the earliest renowned civilizations of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and Greece. At different
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a fondness for the Amazonomachies‚ battles between Greeks and the mythical Amazonites‚ a race of warrior women from the north and east. Such is the focus of the Terracotta volute-krater‚ a red-figure battlefield baked and painted in approximately 450 BCE‚ at the shift between the Early and High Classical Periods of Greece. Curiously however‚ the painter‚ dubbed the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs. painted the the battle as an even match between the Amazons and the Greeks‚ despite having the opportunity
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INTRO Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. Ajanta dates from 100 B.C. while Ellora is younger by some 600 years. The village of Ajanta is in the Sahyadri hills‚ about 99 kms. From Aurangabad; a few miles away in a mammoth horseshoe-formed rock‚ are 30 caves overlooking a gorge‚ `each forming a room in the hill and some with
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Gilgamesh tells the story of a legendary king of Uruk in South Baby-lonia (van Reeth 1994). He was the fifth ruler of Uruk after the deluge and possibly ruled Uruk around 2800 BCE (van Reeth 1994). The Epic itself was originally conveyed in oral form‚ but was written down in Sumerian using cuneiform writing on clay tablets around 2000 BCE (Hooker 1996). Many fragments of the epic also survive in other languages such as Hurrian and Hittite (Hooker 1996). The most complete surviving version of the Epic was
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Han Xueyuan The Bronze Statue from Artemision The Bronze Statue from Artemision is made in Transition period and probably in Attica. It is made of bronze and depicts a naked man. As a result of its provenance and subject mater‚ scholars have debated whether the Bronze Statue from Artemision portrays an athlete or a god. Furthermore‚ they frequently attempt to identify which god‚ if any‚ this statue portrays 1. From its height (larger than life-size)‚ the facial features‚ and the pose of the figure
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meant non Greek. The development of Greek civilization rises from the ashes of the ancient Mycenaean and Minion cultures. From After the decline and eventual fall of the Mycenaean culture in 1100 BCE‚ the Aegean Islands would experience a “dark age” period for about 200 – 300 years. By 800 BCE Greece would begin to show growth and stability in their government‚ economy and culture. This period is referred to as the Homeric Age. The writer Homer would write the stories of prehistoric Greek
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