What are the triangular indentations used for the script of the Sumerians called?[pic] Cuneiform[pic] Who was Gilgamesh‚ and which city did he rule?[pic] Gilgamesh was the King of Uruk. His reputation inspired the Epic of Gilgamesh/5th king of Uruk(2500 BC)‚ reigned 126 yrs/lugal “big man”(leader) wealthy young man‚ warrior [pic]Which technologies were used by the earliest Western civilizations? [pic] Stone‚ wood‚ leather‚ and fibers[pic]/ 1st appearance of tools (bone‚ wood
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Shane Correia 3/11/13 MCS 38 Final Paper Prompt #4 Revenge the Building Block The term “Epic” tends to appeal to the general population of the world. It is my understanding that people love to watch films with big spectacle and great stories. They love to get lost in a world that takes them outside of themselves. Most of all‚ people love the themes represented in these “Epic” films. In the Ancient films we screened during this quarter‚ we screened the epic pictures of Ancient times. There
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Chapter 10: Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase * Homer a man who never existed: composed 2 great epics: Iliad and the Odyssey. Bards recited it. Believe scribes committed them to writing. Others believe that a man named Homer helped to write it with other people. Iliad offered Greek perspective on campaign waged by Greek Warriors against city of Troy in Anatolia. Odyssey: Experience of Greek Hero Odysseus as he sailed home after the Trojan War. Works described difficulties faced by Greek
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Archimedes Claw - Archimedes Death Ray - Roman Siege of Syracuse and the death of Archimedes Mentors and Students Plato Aristotle Alexander the Great Triremes‚ Themosticles and the Battle of Salamis - Trireme and Trickery - Defeat of Xerxes and impact on Greek Society‚ technology and Science Alexander the Great and Hellenism - Death of Alexander and the division of the Empire - General Ptolemy and
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Introduction and History Ancient Greek culture spans over a thousand years‚ from the earliest civilizations to the cultures that became the Ancient Greeks. Key Points Before Greek culture took root in Greece‚ early civilizations thrived on the Greek mainland and the Aegean Islands. The two main cultures were the peaceful Minoans and warring Myceanaeans‚ who are distinguished by their unique architecture and material culture. Greek culture began to develop during the Geometric‚ Orientalizing‚
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Michael Beers History 106-01 Mr. Horlor July 12‚ 2013 The Life and Works of Herodotus and Sima Qian A Research-Based Commentary Thesis In the book Herodotus and Sima Qian (2010)‚ Thomas R. Martin contests of the Greek Historian and the Chinese Historian Sima Qian. Martin displays that though the historians’ politics‚ cultures‚ and time periods were different‚ both historians had the innate desire to record their subjective view of history as objectively as possible. Though they were not
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In this masterful and wide-ranging account‚ Herodotus‚ outlines the earlier histories of both Athens (the dominant city-state within the Greek army) and Persia‚ deals with the earlier invasion of Greece by Xerxes’ father Darius‚ and includes valuable information from his own travels to distant lands such as Egypt. Earlier texts that survive from ancient Greece are either poems (as with Homer and Sappho) or‚ with Aeschylus‚ drama. The Histories is the earliest
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------------------------------------------------- Battle of Saragarhi Coordinates: 33°33′N 70°56′E Battle of Saragarhi | Part of Tirah Campaign War | Burnt-out interior of Saragarhi as it looked on 14th September‚ 1897 | Date | 12 September 1897 | Location | Tirah‚ North-West Frontier Province‚ British India (modern day Pakistan) | Result | Afghan Pashtun tactical victory‚ British Indian strategic victory | | Belligerents | British India | Pashtuns (Afghans) | Commanders
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Xerxes Matza‚ a bloke boasting Philippine and Turkish descent‚ might even be the most "exotic" of the writers collective. Celebrating "exoticism"‚ of course‚ is not the preoccupation of this project. It’s really about "us" in the universal sense: capturing
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Development of Man The early pre-humans were called Australopethecines which means “Southern Apes”. There were four species under this. a) Australopithecus ramidus b) Australopithecus afarensis c) Australopithecus africanus d) Australopithecus robustus Australopithecines were primates which had brains no bigger than the chimpanzee’s‚ shorter than us and have long arms because they are bipedal which means they walk using both their hands and feet. The oldest Australopithecine skeleton
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