Palace at Knossos (Grete) CA‚ 1700-1400‚ Greece. The Knossos palace was first built around 2000 BC‚ and reflected the grandeur of Minoan civilization. The Palace spread over six acres of land with heights reaching four stories. It was constructed in a labyrinth‚ maze-like pattern and about 100‚000 people lived there. The walls of the Palace where fill with beautiful and colorful friezes and frescoes‚ figures and paintings on plaster‚ which depict life from this era. Throughout the Minoan Period
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Minoan Harvester’s vase VS Mycenaean Warrior’s vase The Harvest Vase‚ Hanga Triada‚ Crete‚ New palace Period‚ c. 1950- 1450 BCE steatite diameter 4 ½” the lower half is missing so it was reconstructed. It was carved of steatite witch is a brown and greenish soapstone. The Minoan Harvest vase is egg shaped known as a rython it was believed to be used for pouring liquid. It is decorated with 27 men with individual characteristics. The figures overlap as they appear to move forward
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Palace of Knossos The Palace of Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and possibly the political and cultural centre of Minoan civilisation‚ possibly the oldest in Europe. The ruins of Knossos were first discovered by a Cretan merchant called Minos Kalokairinos in 1878. After Kalokairinos‚ Heinrich Schliemann had shown an interest but it wasn’t until March 16‚ 1900 that archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased the site and started the excavations. Arthur Evans is famous
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An aqueduct was the Roman solution to providing water to their towns and cities. The Romans constructed aqueducts with stone blocks that came from the quarries nearby. Romans also used concrete‚ mortar‚ tiles‚ or bricks to build the aqueducts. The channels of the aqueduct were then lined with a mixture of crushed tile and amphorae‚ called opus signium. The opus signium helped to waterproof the aqueduct channels. Finally‚ the Romans would layer the surface with a mixture of limestone and crushed
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Arthur Evans and the Palace of Knossos Archaeology has contributed greatly to our knowledge of past civilisation and in turn the general understanding of humanity’s progression through the ages. Without archaeology‚ this knowledge and understanding would be extremely limited in its range of sources and evidence. Ancient civilisations underground provide an extensive range of remains and artefacts from which historians can draw accurate‚ informed conclusions about mortals who have long since turned
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Discuss how art can be used to reflect‚ promote‚ or challenge cultural beliefs. Art‚ throughout the times have reflected‚ promoted and challenged the cultural beliefs of many different societies. To reflect a culture or society the artwork must create or suggest a particular impression of that era. To promote the cultural beliefs of a society the artwork must encourage and support the beliefs. For the artwork to challenge the beliefs it must question tradition. Gislebertus and Michelangelo promote
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Statistics can be very helpful in providing interpretation of reality but also can be used to distort our understanding. Discuss some of the ways in which statistics can be used or misused in different Areas of Knowledge to assist and mislead us‚ and how we can determine whether to accept the statistical evidence that is present to us. When you turn on the news‚ what do you hear? 1 in 10 people in South Africa have AIDS ‚ Unemployment Reaches New High of 9.3 Percent ‚ etc. Statistics is supposed
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‘Religious experience can be used as evidence for the existence of God’ A religious experience is an encounter with God when you experience transcendent reality and it you cannot will it to happen. A direct religious experience refers to events where God reveals him/herself directly to the person having the experience. The experience is not chose or willed by the person; the person experiences or observes God in some way. An indirect religious experience refers to experiences‚ thoughts or feelings
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The Indus civilisation was an ancient civilisation that flourished during the third millennium encompassing the Nile valley and the lands from the Mediterranean Sea east across the Iranian plateau to the greater Indus region. Primarily centred in modern day Pakistan‚ in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab‚ and India‚ in Gujarat and Rajasthan‚ its remains have also been excavated from Afghanistan‚ Turkmenistan and Iran. Historically part of Ancient India‚ it is one of the world’s three earliest urban
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CLASH OF CIVILISATION ITS IMPACTS IN IR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY 2015 WHAT ARE WE DISCUSSING? FIRST TERM SECOND TERM • AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT • THE POLITIC OF IDENTITY • THE HISTORY AND THE FOUNDER • THE CLASH IN IR – THE EVIDENCE OF REALISM • THE FAULT LINES OF THE CLASH • REVIEW • THE OPPONENT • THE STORIES OF CLASH • THE CLASH IN THE AGE OF SECURITY THE HISTORY RE-TELLS INDIAN WAR CRUSADE WAR CARTHAGE VS ROME AZTEC AZTEC EXTINCTION EXTINCTION
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