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Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1,316 wordsDuring my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I observed many interesting paintings, sculptures, and artifacts. The two exhibits I chose to do my report on were Anonymous Official, from the thirteenth dynasty in Egypt, (1783 B. C. ), and Head from a Herm from the early Greek civilization, (first quarter of the fifth century). (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, Howard, pg. 306) I chose these two particular exhibits because of their faces. The way the human face is portrayed is an excellen...
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Ancient Greece Athenian Women
1,187 wordsAristophanes was a satirist who produced Lysistrata around 413 BC when the news of Athens warships had been destroyed near Sicily. For twenty-one years, while Athens was engaged in war, he relentlessly and witty attacked the war, the ideals of the war, the war party and the war spirit. This risked his acceptance and his Athenian citizenship. Lysistrata is probably the oldest comedy which has retained a place in modern theatre. It primarily deals with two themes, war and the power of sexuality......
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Dictator For Life Bc Caesar
1,959 wordsItaly is a peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean sea west of Greece. Italy has poor mineral resources and very few useful harbors, however it is wealth in both fertile land and precipitation. Three - quarters of the peninsula is covered in foothills and mountains. The alps, a mountain range to the north of Italy, cut off the peninsulas only land connection, which resulted, in the times of Ancient Rome, in the people The Etruscans were mysterious people who settled on the Italian Peninsula...
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Greek City States Greek Mythology
521 wordsThe origin of the universe can be explained by modern astronomers and astrophysicists, while archaeologists and historians try to clarify the origin of human societies. In the distant past, however, before any sciences existed, the beginnings of the world and of society were explained by MYTHOLOGY. The dictionary defines mythology as the myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular people. The word myth is often mistakenly understood to mean fiction-something that ...
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City State Powerful City Freedom
283 wordsSparta, one of the powerful city-states, retains this name for good reason. They took over Messenia and used the land wisely, by making a government using the Code of Lycurgus. The Spartan women were given a lot more freedom compared to other Greek city-states; thus, every person provided a part in the development of their city. They represented duty, strength, discipline, beauty, and freedom of thought. Spartans valued power and built their city-state to protect themselves from revolts and atta...
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2,492 wordsINTRODUCTION The Aztecs were an American Indian people who ruled a mighty empire in Mexico from the 1400 's to the 1500 's. The Aztecs had one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas and built cities as large as any in Europe at that time. They also practiced a remarkable religion that affected every part of their lives and featured human sacrifice. The Aztecs built towering temples, created huge sculptures, and held impressive ceremonies all for the purpose of worshipping their gods....
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Greek City States Persian Wars
491 wordsBoth Sparta and Athens were Greek city-states. Sparta was a strict military ruled city-state where the people established themselves as a military power early. However Athens was more of a political city-state that was more involved with their economical stature than their military forces. Still changes from the Persian wars would change the powers of the city-state and somewhat unite them. Sparta was a strict military city-state. The people were Dorians who conquered Laconia. This region lies i...
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Divided Into Four City States
1,034 wordsA Brief Comparison of Florence and Venice Florence and Venice were the economic powerhouses of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. While there are vast differences between the two great cities, there are also some striking similarities, the most outstanding being their devotion to commerce. To both the Florentine's and the Venetians, riches had an extraordinary significance. To be rich was to be honorable and to be poor was a disgrace (Hibbert Medici 32). The Florentine's had a saying th...
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The Fall Of Roman Empire
1,670 wordsMany different historians, teachers, philosophers, archeologists and ordinary people have talked about, and brought up ideas and hypotheses about how this glorious Empire fell. This civilization and their way of life is, in some historians' opinions, the most prosperous and content time in human history. Many writers differ not only in their style, but also in how they view and interpret the events of history. One of the greatest historians of the eight-tenth century, Edward Gibbons, wrote that ...
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Social And Economic Read And Write
859 wordsMost ancient Greek women were under control of men from the moment of their birth to the moment of their death, weather it be their father or husbands. This may be quite true about Athenian or any other women from different city-states, but Spartan women had a lot more freedom and when compared are found out to be a lot more different then the traditional image of which ancient Greek women are thought to of been treated. Firstly Spartan women had many more rights then other women of different ci...
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Athenian Democracy City States
613 wordsMountains, valleys, and water isolate Greece. Hundreds of islands are scattered along its coast. As a result of this type of geography, Greece could never become a large unified empire, so instead, small city-states were created. A city-state was known as a "polis." A polis was made up of a two different parts; the lower ground was the main city, which was housed within a large wall. The upper ground was the hilltop acropolis. These acropolis' were used as military posts, and for religious pract...
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National Geographic Society York New York
1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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Mesopotamia Egypt And Harappa
2,881 wordsMesopotamia, Egypt and Harappa Mesopotamia was situated between two rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was established by the small farmers tribes that came to settle down on the river valleys. The floodplains provided them with peas, wheat and barley. They changed the banks of the rivers so that they could direct the water to lower regions. Then summers came to Mesopotamia before 4000 BC. The origins of these people are unclear, they were not Semites, unlike most part of the people of this region,...
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Gods And Goddesses City Of Troy
1,292 wordsThe Trojan War The Trojan War took place in approximately the 13 th century. The ancient Greeks defeated the City of Troy. The Trojan War started after an incident at the wedding feast of Peleus, the king of Thessaly, and Thetis, a sea goddess. All the gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus had been invited except Eris, the goddess of discord. Eris was offended and tried to stir up trouble among the guests at the feast. She sent a golden apple inscribed? For the most beautiful. ? Hera, Athena, and Ap...
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Popular Sovereignty City States
1,074 wordsThe King and His People: Greco-Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval Traditions as They Shaped Europe Coming out of the Dark Ages, several cultures began to shape Western Europe. Greece, Rome, and Byzantium helped shape the traditions of medieval Europe. Each culture developed different political systems that defined the source of the rulers authority and the role of the citizen. From city-states to tyrant controlling feudal empires, the Western tradition developed a concept of political sovereignty. I...
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Louis Xiv Jean Baptiste
3,341 wordsI INTRODUCTION Louis XIV (1638 - 1715), king of France (1643 - 1715), known as the Sun King, who imposed absolute rule on France and fought a series of wars trying to dominate Europe. His reign, the longest in European history, was marked by a great flowering of French culture. Louis was born on September 5, 1638, at Saint Germain-en-Like. His parents, King Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, grateful for an heir after 20 barren years of marriage, christened him Louis Dieudonn (literally, the gift o...
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Ancient Times B C
1,604 wordsThe Life of Epicurus Epicurus was born on February 4 th, 341 B. C. , the second of four brothers, on the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea just off the west coast of what is now Turkey (a region called Ionia). Epicurus parents were cleruchy, a class of poor Athenian citizens who settled territory appropriated from the tributary states of Athens. Cleruchs were looked down upon by Athenian residents and scorned as foreign invaders by the natives of the territories they settled, which made their so...
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City States Women Play
510 wordsLysistrata is a play written in 411 BC by Aristophanes. At that time in Greek history, the city-states were constantly warring with one another. Consequently, the women were left at home. One woman, Lysistrata, was so fed up with the fighting that she called all of the women of Greece to a meeting. When they finally showed up, Lysistrata presented her plan for peace: no sex until the wars ceased. She eventually convinced all of the other women that this was the only way to bring peace to the lan...
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Dictator For Life Rome
4,000 wordsThe Land Italy Roman History Rome The Land Italy is a peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean sea west of Greece. Italy has poor mineral resources and very few useful harbors, however it is wealth in both fertile land and precipitation. Three quarters of the peninsula is covered in foothills and mountains. The alps, a mountain range to the north of Italy, cut off the peninsulas only land connection, which resulted, in the times of Ancient Rome, in the people trading amount themselves. The E...
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Early Middle Ages 16 Th Century
1,769 wordsThe middle Reformation Middle Ages The middle ages lasted from 500 - 1350. The term Middle Ages was invented by people during the Renaissance, a period of cultural and literary change in the 14 th, 15 th, and 16 th centuries. The term was not meant as a compliment. During the Renaissance, people thought that their own age and the time of ancient Greece and Rome were advanced and civilized. They called the period between themselves and the ancient world the Middle Age. The adjective medieval come...
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