Political Form(s) of Government Political Structures Courts/Laws Leaders/Elites Kingdom/Domain War/Conflict The government of the ancient Mesopotamians was an unusual form. There was a King and nobles who made the law‚ declared war and decided how to honor the gods. Then there was an assembly of the people who could overrule the king and say‚ “this is not a good law‚ get rid of it”. Mesopotamia was made up of city-states. It was one nation as a whole‚ but each city-state had it’s own government
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Egyptian Architecture Due to the scarcity of wood the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun-baked mud bricks and stone‚ mainly limestone but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities. From the Old Kingdom onward‚ stone was generally reserved for tombs and temples‚ while bricks were used even for royal palaces‚ fortresses‚ the walls of temple precincts and towns‚ and for subsidiary buildings in temple complexes. The core of the pyramids came from stone quarried
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created all humans but were also controlled by the principle of maat‚ or order. Unlike followers of Mesopotamian religion‚ the Egyptians had a strong belief in the afterlife‚ which they expressed by building elaborate tombs such as the pyramids. The Sumerian afterlife involved a descent into a gloomy netherworld to spend eternity in a wretched existence as a Gidim (ghost). Egyptians believed that their gods had created Egypt as a sort of refuge of good and order in a world filled with chaos and disorder
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system of MESOPOTOMIA THEOCRACY- form of government in which a god is recognized as the civil Ruler MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION: Who settled first? Natufians at end of Ice Age Then who? Sumerians around 5000 BCE Then? Amorites‚ Hittites‚ Persians‚ etc. Meopotamian political system: Mesopotamia did NOT have a centralized government or leader but was made up of small city-states. Kings ruled their own city-states and the region was prone
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Mesopotamia and Harappan societies have long been compared throughout the history of archaeology. Mesopotamia‚ also known as‚ ’the land between the rivers‚’ was named for the triangular area between the Tigris and the Euphrates river‚ (Nov. 7 lecture). In recent use‚ it covers a broader area referring to most of what is now Iraq. This adds ancient Assyria and Babylonia to the scope of Mesopotamia (Schultz and Lavenda 1995:310). Parts of Mesopotamia were not inhabited at all until approximately 8000
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Civilizations in Mesopotamia Cumulative effects of agriculture + wave of technological changes around 4000 B.C.E. = generated civilizations as a new organizational form The process of agricultural economies = civilizations began in the Middle East. The Sumerians Sumer 1st river valley civilizations Major floods occurred Northeastern section along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that lead to the Persian Gulf Rainfall is scant Generated large food surpluses = population growth and village expansion +
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Over the span of time‚ techniques and ideals were forged into the artwork of our ancient history. Art and architecture was a common method used for propaganda during the ancient time periods. Some of these techniques involved the illusion of enlarging the main character and surrounding it with petite characters emphasizing the main characters power over all. The method in which i previously mentioned is called hierarchy scale‚ where relative size indicates the relative importance. The palette of
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According to Kleiner‚ Naram-Sin’s storming the mountain symbolizes “scaling the ladder to the heavens‚” the theory similar to the motivation behind the ziggurat towers of the ancient Near East (26). The Neolithic revolution brought a fundamental change in the daily lives of the Mesopotamian people. This time period (2900 to 2350 BC) saw the Sumerians transform the valley between the Tigris & Euphrates into a dozen or so city-states (figure 2). These competing city-states were controlled by different
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| | | Which of the following terms best describes the peoples of the Paleolithic period? | | | | | Selected Answer: | Hunter-gatherers | | | | | | | | Which of the following practices does not date back to the Paleolithic period? | | | | | Selected Answer: | Establishment of permanent homes | | | | | | | | Which activity predominated in the lives of Paleolithic peoples? | | | | | Selected Answer: | Searching for food | | | | | |
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Cornell Note Taking Template Key Words: Notes: Nile river Longest river in world. Supplied life-giving water for the Egyptians civilization. Had an annual cycle of moth long flooding. Hard for farmers but then solved by irrigation and pre- harvesting. Steps toward civilization. Hunter-gatherer groups moved in and formed farming settlements. Neolithic culture developed in 6000 BC Mined
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