Ancient Civilizations
Mesopotamia
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Government
I know this because the text says “ They were also expected to be brave military commanders of great cities” it also says “ City-state rulers were honored with various titles, such as en (lord), ensi (governor, or lugal(King”. (Steele 10)
ART I know this because the text says “ The potters wheel which made poetry production far more efficient”. It also says “Copper ore was being smelted and the molten copper poured into molds as early as the fourth millennium bce. (Steele 28)
Religion I know this because the text says “ The Sumerians worshiped many gods and goddesses”.And the text also says “ Later mesopotamian took up or adapted sumerians gods sometimes giving them new names” (Steele 14)
Writing Writing I know this because the writing they used was clay symbols that they molded on to clay (AKA Picture Symbols). In the text it says "At first they used picture symbols to represent objects such as cattle, grain, or fish". It also explains that " By around 3300 BCE the citizens of Uruk were using about 700 different symbols or pictographs" (Steele 12)
Architecture I know this because the text says “A lasting symbol of Ancient Mesopotamia is the ziggurat, a massive terraced platform made of brick”. It also says “ The ziggurats themselves had small temples or shrines on top, reached by long stairways” (Steele 24)
Ancient Egypt
location: desert covers more then 90 percent of egypt called the red land the desert supported only small settlements in wadis and oases
Religion in the text it said that egyptians worshiped hundreds on gods the gods were represent by alame
government: The king was not only the most powerful and important man in egypt he was thought to be a god he was known as the pharaoh.
Art: art is very cultured. on page 56 the author states "The gold could be beaten into shape or cast in molds. also made patterns." that shows what they treasure and how it is made. it seems to me that gold is the key to there art, because the text says on page 56 "Egyptian jewelers had no knowledge of stones like diamonds, emeralds,
Architecture: the egyptians have this place called "The Great Pyramids". I know this because page 20 states "the first pyramid was made for the burial place of King Djoser". then the book states on page 20 "the idea of this pyramid was to
Writing the author wrote in the passage that they wrote hieroglyphics on walls they also wrote it for the use of businesses stories contra tracts and letters
location location I know because the region didn't originally have a name but the ancient greeks called it mesopotamia which means the land between the rivers. also an example is that two great rivers flowed southward through the middle east which were called the tigris and euphrates rivers. (steele 6)
ancient china
religonion: the U.S. government estimated Buddhists comprise 18.2 percent of the country's total population, Christians 5.1 percent, Muslims 1.8 percent, followers of folk religions 21.9 percent, and atheists or unaffiliated persons 52.2 percent, with Hindus, Jews, and Taoists comprising less than 1 percent.
writing: on page 11 it said they used oracle bones to talk with the spirits. An ox bone was burnt till it cracks. The cracks were looking over t see were the crack landed
trade/commerce: Exports were $195.5 billion; imports were $562.9 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $367.4 billion in 2022. U.S. goods exports to China in 2022 were $154.0 billion, up 1.7 percent ($2.6 billion) from 2021 and up 39 percent from 2012.
art:three centurie of brutal warfare marked the decline of the zhou dynasty the zhou became unable to control disputes among the feudal lords
government:
The constitution of China provides for three levels of government. However in practice, there are five levels of local government; the provincial (province, autonomous region, municipality, and special administrative region), prefecture, county, township, and village.
architecture/technology: some of the worlds greatest inventions cane from china throughout its imperial history emperors encouraged the development of science and technology and for centuries china
location:You can use 在(zài) to express location, but this article will explain how to use 在(zài) to express location in relation to another object. This way, you can describe if something is "on the table" or "in the room."
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writing: Some scholars have wondered whether these symbols actually constituted a proper writing system. Whatever the case, the lack of decipherable texts means that we can gain no real insight into many of the details of Indus society as well as little about its government and politics.
architecture/technology: the text says people within the indus valley created well- planned cities.the people during time cared : deeply about hygiene and their cities resembled the importance of this idea. these early cities show remnants of the worlds earliest sanitation system.
location: the author wrote around 5000 years ago, a civilization develop along the indus river alluvial plain. In south asia due to the large amount of fertile land and of settlement. Were built on the banks of the indus river and surrounding.
government: The Aryan civilization had a large impact on modern-day India society. For example, one Aryan influence on modern-day India was the development of the caste system A caste is a social group in which people are born and they cannot change. The caste system began because the Aryans had four social classes, which they called varnas
religion: The aryans came from an area of central asia near. the caucasus mountains moving southeast and eventually taking over the entire indus valley by the year 1500 bc. They spoke a language called sanskrit which became the basis of many modern south asian language.