educational tool. In 30‚000 BCE cave drawings were the first means of a story telling. A picture is worth a thousand words‚ so how do we pinpoint an idea or concept. The development of the pictographic writing system was the first developed‚ by the Sumerian culture in 4100-3800 BCE‚ as a measuring device to keep track of grains. This system was adopted by the Mesopotamia and Akkadian civilizations‚ which helped them‚ create the first Semitic language. Next we go to Egypt 3100 BCE‚ and look at their pictograph
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This painting was created in CA 570 BCE in Italy. This has more than 200 mythological figures in registers‚ and it uses the same format of Geometric and Orientalizing vases. Beside this there is a painting of Exekias. In this painting Achilles and Ajax were playing a game on board. It was created in CA 540 – 530 BCE in Italy. This painting is created with good coordination of figures‚ shape and ingraved patterns. It was one
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11th century BCE. This clan had become increasingly powerful and had extended their existence throughout the present Shaanxi and Dansu provinces. At the time the Shang dynasty was under a very unjust and evil ruler king Zhou. Being that all the people had ill feelings toward the king‚ and the way he treated everybody‚ The leader of the Zhou clan at the time “Wenwang” figured it would be the right time to attack and take down the evil King Zhou. The Shang dynasty ended in about 1046 BCE. The Zhou kingdom
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In the Ancient Gallery in the Chazen Museum of Art‚ there is a bell krater from Attica‚ Greece that was made around 460-450 BCE. It is a ceramic vase that is in excellent condition with the exception of a few chips on the red-figure decoration. The Bell Krater (figure 1‚ figure 2) stands under two feet tall and is just over one foot in width. Overall‚ the scene and design style on this krater is mostly consistent throughout the entire body of the vase‚ but there are a few formal elements that separate
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Innovators for the Public. Ashoka | Maurya Samrat | A "Chakravartin" ruler‚ 1st century BCE/CE. Andhra Pradesh‚ Amaravati. Preserved at Musee Guimet | Reign | 268–232 BCE | Coronation | 268 BCE | Born | 304 BCE | Birthplace | Pataliputra‚ Patna | Died | 232 BCE (aged 72) | Place of death | Pataliputra‚ Patna | Buried | Ashes immersed in the GangesRiver‚ possibly at Varanasi‚Cremated 232 BCE‚ less than 24 hours after death | Predecessor | Bindusara | Successor | Dasaratha | Wives
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CCOT Essay Between 200 BCE and 1450 CE‚ the Silk Road held onto its true purpose while undergoing numerous transformations over time. The trade between East Asia and Europe remained the focus of the route while the materials transferred across the land began to change. Just as well‚ nation states took on new names and lands were divvied up to create new countries. Though there were changes in the goods passed along the Silk Road‚ it never lost its true‚ original purpose. Asia’s economy‚ more
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AP WORLD STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Before Civilization Around 10‚000 years ago‚ during the Neolithic Age‚ humans began to cultivate plants and to domesticate animals in various parts of the world. Climate change is probably the major reason for the switch from food gathering to food production. Although farming is often harder than hunting and gathering‚ agriculturalists‚ because of their capacity to increase their population‚ expanded across much of the planet at the expense of hunter-gatherers
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Changes and continuities essay In the Period of 200 to 1450 BCE the Silk road was extremely important in connecting Eastern China to the empires of the West. The trade of spices and goods to and from Asia and Europe remained constant. Asian commodities were traded with European merchants along the road and vice versa. Asia’s economy‚ such as that of China specifically‚ remained heavily relative on the money from Silk Road trade. 200 BCE silk roads came to use. Luxury goods were traded between the
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Caesar experienced a wide range of political offices in his lifetime. After serving in military campaigns under Marcus Thermus and Servilius Isauricus‚ he was awarded the civic crown for saving a citizen in battle. Consequently‚ in 72 BCE‚ he held his first political office as military tribune‚ “which was conferred on him by vote of the people after his return to Rome” (Suetonius‚ 36). Later on‚ about five years later‚ he was elected quaestor and had a seat in the Roman Senate. As quaestor‚ it was
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Buddha Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent [note 1]‚ on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.[6] The word Buddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions‚ Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha of our age‚ "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one Gautama taught a Middle Way compared to the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement [7] common in his
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