1. Identify the ideology of kingship during China’s Shang dynasty. How did it compare with that of the Zhou Dynasty? - Early China’s cities‚ Shang and Zhou‚ have very distinctive features in the ideology of kingship. In the Shang dynasty‚ the king and his administration were the controllers‚ where the king was the intermediary between the people and the gods. However‚ in the Zhou dynasty‚ the ruler was chosen by gods to justify power‚ and if he/she misbehaved or acted inappropriately‚ they would
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The epic of the Trojan War have two names that stand out even more than of its protagonists: Homer and Heinrich Schliemann. Homer‚ the greatest poet of all time‚ compiled stories of an oral tradition that sang the heroic deeds of a war that pitted the city of Troy with a coalition of Greek States to the 8th century BC. A war that happened five centuries before and that was the last heroic deed of a powerful civilization whose track would disappear from history soon after until little more than one
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01.15.2014 B.C.E. = C.E. B.C = A.D. Form - the visual aspects of art and architecture‚ line‚ shape‚ color‚ light‚ texture‚ space‚ math‚ volume‚ and composition. Style – the combination of form and composition that makes a work distinctive. Content – includes subject matter or meaning and a work of art. School of artists – a group of artist usually working at the same time and sharing similar style influences and ideas Iconography – identify and studying and subject matter and conventional
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Hercules Hercules was known for his strength and courage. He completed legendary adventures which accredited for his heroic status. Son of Zeus and human Alcmene made him a demigod. Hercules suffered relentless rage from Hera for being the baby of her disloyal husband. As an infant Hera sent two serpents to his cradle‚ but Hercules astonishingly strangled the serpents. These undertakings and additional events would lead to Hercules being regarded as one of the more paramount gods in mythology.
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cause? Historical: Troy is a city that guards the entrance to the Black Sea‚ and so it’s likely that they were harassing the Greeks’ trade routes. Mythical: Paris stole Helen from king Menelaos of Sparta. Menelaos was brother of Agamemnon of Mycenae. One of the horrific acts committed in the "House of Atreus" (not the literal house‚ but the family that includes Atreus) was that he did what to Thyestes’ children?- He chopped them up‚ put them in a stew and fed them to Thyestes Eris B.
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Archaeology The Nature of Archaeology History: Focuses on written sources‚ written sources restricted to the last 5500 years‚ written sources are limited to literate societies‚ written sources from ancient societies were mostly written by men‚ reflecting a male bias. Archaeology: Focuses on physical sources‚ physical sources extend as far back as the beginning of human history into prehistory‚ physical artefacts provide information about all human activity‚ and archaeologists usually study
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and as a whole. Greek religion’s exact origin is vague and presumed unclear. However‚ it is known it started in Mycenae‚ an area at the foot of Greece along the Mediterranean Sea. The Mycenaean’s did not originally believe in the Greek myths that the later Greeks enjoyed. The clues as to what their religion was like‚ and how Greek myths were born are endless. Mycenae had a mainly male-deity religion and was often associated or compared with the war-like Indo-Europeans. They could have
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Heracles and the twelve labours The story of why Heracles initially had done the 12 labours was that he had killed his first wife and had wanted to repay for his sins. So he had prayed to the gods and was told that him to bind himself for eight years as servant to king Eurystheus and perform ten tasks for him. The ten tasks had turned in to 12 for the reasons of Heracles had help in on and gained from another. King Eurystheus decided Heracles first task would be to bring him the skin of the invulnerable
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Stonehenge Stonehenge is a huge megalithic monument situated on Salisbury Plain‚ Mid-Wiltshire‚ England. The ruins of Stonehenge contain stones from three stages of building. These stages took place over a period of roughly 1600 years from 3100 BC to 1500 BC (Chippindale‚ 1983:271). Stonehenge has been severely damaged by things as different as tourists to weather. What it is today is quite different from what scientists suggest it may have looked like when it was finished (Fig1 and Fig2). Since
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Monumental architecture was an important facet of classical society. Not only would it exhibit the advances in culture that each society was making‚ but it was gave them a chance to show off their wealth‚ power‚ and creativity to other societies. These monuments often took the innovations and collaborations of the country’s top architects and builders to accomplish. They also exemplify the importance of the Mediterranean region in comparison to the world during the BC era and into early CE. First
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