Exam 1 review sheet History 1100 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS: Prehistory- first civilized people started migrating out of Africa‚ into the Near East‚ Europe and Asia. The migration set the period known as the Stone Age. The Stone Age is where people drastically made a change. They started using tools made out of stone‚ agriculture and domesticated animals. Paleolithic Age (old stone)- 200‚000 b.c.-10‚000 b.c. Neolithic Age (new stone) – 10‚000 b.c.-4‚000 b.c. PALEOLITHIC AGE: Hunter-gatherers-
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Victory stele of Naram-sin This paper will compare art from the Early Dynastic period of warring city states with art of the Akkadian Empire in order to see whether there are any recognizable patterns in representation that show the developing political ideologies‚ identities and intentions of the ruling powers of the times. It is my contention that much art was used as propaganda‚ probably to an increasing degree‚ and that this stimulate a new mastery of realism and composition
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Chapter One Origins and Antiquity: Myths‚ Legends‚ and Epics The geographical origins of Western literature lie in areas as diverse as the Middle East‚ the Mediterranean‚ the central European forests‚ and the northwestern coasts‚ each of which produced a body of oral histories‚ myths‚ and legends‚ many of which were subsequently written down. They have been drawn on by writers since the emergence of a Western literature culture in ancient Greece. Stories have been used as entertainment‚ as origin
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Freud’s view of civilization emerges from his understanding of the struggle between Eros and Death. Freud expresses the existence of two contrary instincts‚ Eros and Death‚ via starting from the speculations on the beginning of life and biological parallels. While Eros preserves the living substance and joins it into larger units‚ such as societies‚ Death dissolves these units and brings them back to their primeval state. The death drives appear to be regressive‚ striving for a return to a less differentiated
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Banister Hist-11050-003 Religious Practices Worldwide 4/23/2014 “Almost every society since the beginning of time has practiced religion in some form. Religious practices shaped international relations in profound ways and those practices continue to influence the ways humans interact with each other all over the world”. Religious practices worldwide‚ ranging from now‚ the Middle Ages‚ to the ancient times‚ has helped to create the world we live in. There are important religions that were
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Writing is basically a method used to record information and it is composed by glyphs (1) and through the graphics‚ it represents the spoken language and over time evolves in different civilization. In an effort to understand where and when writing was invented‚ scholars have coined two terms to simplify their quest. The first is Proto- writings; this is a system that uses ideographic or early mnemonic symbols and True-writing; which is the context of linguistic utterance that is encoded so that
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Which of the following would attest to the sophistication of ancient Egyptian society in 3500 BCE? tomb remains Which of the following cultures could have been influential in the Predynastic tomb painting‚ People‚ Boats‚ and Animals? Sumer The ancient Egyptians believed the unification of Egypt took place in a single great event. Which of the following is a record of that great event? Palette of Narmer Which of the following provided the principal information regarding the reconstruction
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Source: Strayer‚ Robert W. Ways of the World: a Brief Global History. Boston‚ MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2009. Print. CHAPTER THREE: First Civilizations Cities‚ States‚ and Unequal Societies3500 b.c.e.–500 b.c.e. “Over 100 miles of wilderness‚ deep exploration into pristine lands‚ the solitude of backcountry camping‚ 4×4 trails‚ and ancient American Indian rock art and ruins. You can’t find a better way to escape civilization!” So goes an advertisement for a vacation in Utah’s Canyonlands
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Emergence of Native Empire (Group 2) Cristobal‚ Lorraine Laxamana‚ Chelsi Nato‚ Joie Remigion‚ Lyndon Sambat‚ Ezekiel Sta. Romana‚ Catherine Mesopotamia 5000 BCE-600 BCE Mesopotamia (from the Greek‚ meaning ’between two rivers’) The ’two rivers’ of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as ’Al-Jazirah’ (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent‚ where Mesopotamian civilization began. Lasted
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World History Notes: Chapter One Intro In 1849‚ William Loftus founded the ruins of the city of Uruk‚ one of the first cities in the world. Loftus found this ancient city in a part of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was one of the first places where civilization began. The First Humans The first civilizations began in Western Asia and Egypt. The way we determine how civilization came about is through science. Archaeologists find many signs of civilization in ancient ruins. No records were contained
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