Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/; संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam [səmskr̩t̪əm]‚ originally संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk‚ "refined speech") is a historical Indo-Aryan language‚ the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and a literary and scholarly language in Buddhism and Jainism. Developing from Vedic Sanskrit‚ today it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India[3] and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand.[4] Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies. The corpus of Sanskrit
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By around 500 BCE however‚ reforms had begun to try to solve economic and social problems. First Solon‚ then Cleisthenes‚ introduced changes that would break apart the control of the wealthy aristocracy and give one vote to all citizens equally. This was the beginning of democracy and it would face unending challenges as Athens was attacked repeatedly by the Persian Empire and later other Greek city-states. These wars would last for nearly thirty years‚ “between 431 BCE and 404 BCE” and would involve
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their religious life very much. The practice of Te then translated into the philosophy of Taoism. The Ancient Chinese civilization was ruled by two major dynasties‚ The Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty came about around 1766 BCE from the Yellow River. The Shang brought upon a very large population and was a warrior culture. Ideas of Kingship were practiced as well as poems and folk art about war‚ love‚ and death. The first king of China‚ Wu Ding was a part of the Shang Dynasty
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ruler led it through many short-living dynasties that did not extend across the entire China. After the Zhou dynasty fell apart in 256 BCE‚ the states of China fought over power again‚ and out of them‚ the Qin rose victorious. Their leader‚ King Cheng (or Zheng)‚ unified the entire China for the first time in Chinese history and created the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. Cheng renamed himself Qin Shi Huangdi‚ which means “The First Emperor”. It was through Qin Shi Huangdi’s leadership that make him one
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Importance of Space Beginning of human civilization The emergence of civilization is generally associated with the final stages of the Neolithic Revolution‚ a slow cumulative process occurring independently over many locations between 10‚000 and 3‚000 BCE‚ reaching in the relatively rapid process of state formation‚ a political development associated with the appearance of a governing elite. Neolithic Revolution‚ sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution‚ was the world’s first historically verifiable
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FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 PRAXITELES‚ Aphrodite of Knidos. Aphrodite (Venus dei Medici) Aphrodite of Rhodes Roman marble copy after an original of c. 350 BCE. copy of a Greek original of (Crouching Venus) Rhodes‚ Greece 1st the 2nd c. BCE century BCE. Roman Marble Copy) Aphrodite of Knidos (Figure 1) was a revolutionary sculpture in terms of Grecian art‚ as it inspired many artists in the future to attempt to capture Aphrodite’s
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MINISTERIO DEL PODER POPULAR PARA LA EDUCACIÓN U.E. INSTITUTO ANDES MODERN AND ANCIENT DEMOCRACY Authors: Acevedo R‚ Sofia Rancel M‚ Isabella M Teacher: Miss Andrea de Paramo Caracas‚ May‚ 2013 According to Thucydides (c.406/455-c.399 BCE)‚ Pericles the ancient Athenian leader was chosen to give a speech in the funerals of the firsts who had fallen in the Peloponnesian war; he decided to state the values of democracy in this occasion. According to Karpiel‚ F; Krull‚ K (2012) Athens was
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18th century BCE - Code of king Hammurabi of Babylon - Earliest form of unified system of justice. Death penalty for 25 crimes‚ including an “eye for an Eye” 16th century BCE - Egypt - first historically recorded death sentence (a man was accused of using magic) 14th century BCE - Hittite code - also prescribed the death penalty 621 BCE - Draconian code of Athens - ‘the death penalty applied for a particularly wide range of crimes”. 5th century BCE - Roman law of the
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Many people have heard of the Nazis burning books during WWII‚ but book burning have been happening as early as 210 BCE. From 210 BCE to today in all parts of the world certain parties and people have declared a war on books. Books are a way of spreading ideas and influence around the world; powerful men throughout history have done everything in their power to stop them for different reasons. People have stopped the spread of books for varieties of reasons such as protecting their power‚ religion
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In the study of Greek plays‚ one tries to recreate for an experience‚ to recapture something of what is meant to those for whom it was written. We know more about the life of Sophocles than we know do about the lives of any other Greek playwright‚ but this still is not a lot. Sophocles’ work has been said to be the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Oedipus the King is something like the literary Mona Lisa of ancient Greece. It presents a nightmare vision of a world turned upside down; a decent man‚
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