Analysis of China‚ Nubia‚ and Olmecs (2200-250 BCE) This analysis will be comparing the similarities and differences of three different ancient cultures. The cultures are China‚ Nubia‚ and Olmec. These three cultures share many similarities although not influenced by each other because each is on different parts of the world. Each culture will be compared in the areas of government‚ religion‚ trade‚ family & gender‚ technology‚ and communication. Each of the cultures had stable governments
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Olmec The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E.‚ the __ people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture‚ wide-ranging trade‚ ceremonial centers‚ and monumental construction. The __ had great cultural influence on later Mesoamerican societies‚ passing on artistic styles‚ religious imagery‚ sophisticated astronomical observation for the construction of calendars‚ and a ritual ball game. (p. 75) Chavín __ The first major urban
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The Olmec culture has associated their art with the jaguar. To them‚ the jaguar is a powerful and mysterious animal that they would worship. Infantile sculptures that were created by the Olmec were found in Mesoamerica. The sculptures are those of naked infants where the sex is usually not denoted. Some of the sculptures can be found with feline characteristics such as that of a jaguar’s mouth. There is speculation that the mouths of the figures appear to be of jaguars due to the similarity between
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The Olmecs: New Light on a Shadowy Past In an old movie‚ a dashing adventurer hacks his way through tangled jungle vines‚ searching for a lost civilization. Suddenly‚ he stumbles upon a dark pit hidden by dense undergrowth. At the bottom of the pit stands a huge stone monument covered with strange carvings. The adventurer is thrilled when he realizes that he has chanced upon the remains of an unknown civilization that existed thousands ofyears ago. More than three thousand years ago in the jungles
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Chinese History Assignment China 221 BCE - turning point The first Chinese Empire was formed from the unification of state of Qin with other Sates in China states in 221 BCE to establish a centralized organization of government. The founding of the Qin dynasty not only brought the unification of the China but also redefined China as a country. Before the Qin dynasty‚ China was under based on clan ties and lineage but transformed into a centralized government in 221 BCE. The period was coming with
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History of Mathematics Compare and contrast mathematics in India and China in the period 213 BCE to 1425 CE. India and China prepared the main contributions in the past for mathematics that has influenced mathematics in today’s day and age‚ with numerous discoveries that would inspire the world of mathematics to an unimaginable degree. The period 213 BCE and 1425 CE is important to examine just because we believe that this was the approximate time of the Buddhist missionaries‚ were they travelled
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1. Nubia ca. 3100 B.C.- 350 C.E. (Early cultures‚ Egyptian domination 2300-1100 B.C‚ Meroë 800 B.C.-350 C.E.) a. Located in the Nile Valley‚ from Aswan south to Khartoum. Links Africa to Mediterranean. Development was dependent on need for irrigation and proximity to Egypt affected history and culture. i. Lower (borders Egypt)‚ Upper (Kush or Kerma)‚ and Southern Nubia (Kingdom of Meroë) b. Lower and Upper had governors. The governors reported to a monarch. Southern Nubia had a king
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Nubia and Mycenae Nubia is located in today ’s southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Its land is a desert divided by the Nile River. Due to the harsh environment it has not been able to support large populations for long periods. The great civilizations that did arise here however based their existence on trade and industry. It is a land of great natural treasures like gold mines‚ ebony‚ ivory and incense‚ which were prized by their neighbors. The Nubian kingdom was closely associated with ancient
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The Olmec civilization thrived from c. 1500 BC to 400 BC‚ in the modern day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Due to lack of archaeological evidence‚ the Olmec’s origin of ethnic identity is unknown. There is such a lack of knowledge that researchers still are unaware of the name this group of people referred to themselves as. The title Olmec comes from‚ ‘Olmec-Xicalanca‚ which is the name of the multi-lingual traders of the Conquest Era‚ from the same region‚ and the name has stuck through
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until they lost their last kingdom five centuries ago. The Nubians remained as the main rivals to the homeland of Africa’s earliest black culture with a history that can be traced from 3800 B.C. onward through the monuments and artifacts. Ancient Nubia was a land of great natural wealth‚ gold mines‚ ebony‚ ivory and incense that its neighbors always prized. Sudan had remained the main homeland of Nubians through their long history‚ but many of its descendants is today’s Egypt. The majority of Nubians
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