September 5th - 9th blogs
Continued Presentations
Phoenicians
Greatest seafaring civilations
Greek for “People of the Sea”
A great sea trading empire on the mettatrian Sea
Famous for alaphabet, cedar ships, and purple cloth
They determined their direction by looking at the sun and the stars. For many years the North Star was known as the Phonecian star
Technology advances
Ship buidling, Navigation, see through glass, mathematics, purple dyes
Political Advances
Kingship
Alliances- King israelite
Social Structure
REpublic gov- Tyre
REligon
Polthesctic
Education
Educated by elders in community
Art
Influenced by egyptian and mesopotamian art
Entertianment
Music and hymns
Festicals celebrating their gods
Gender Roles
Women were subjected to lower ranks than man
Neo- Babylonian Empire
Absolute Monarchy (sumu-abum
1894 BC city state First AMorite Babylonian
Natural Borders, Caucusas Mountains, Asir and Hejaz Mountains, Aribian Desert, an nafud desert, Anatolian Plateau
HAmurabi code (282)
Would sent the laws code for babylonian
Eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth
Marriage, land ownership
Basically law system
625 BC
Economy
Agriculture was wheat veggies and fruits
Used a lot of their crops and silver coins to trade
200,000+ people
Social
Paraoh, gov officials, soliders,
Religon
Strong beliefs in many immortal gods
Gender Roles
Men had more rights over women
Women had some rights
Entertainment
Hunted
Boxed and wrestled
Board Games
Art
Some in architecture
Some clay tablets
Education
Scribeal type learning
HAnging GArden
Was believed to float in sky
Was made by King nebuchadnezzer
7 wonders of the world
No one actually knows where it is or whether it is real
The Harappan Civilization
Indus River Valley Civilization
3300-1300 BC
Since HArappa was the first city founded thats why they got their name
Its a large village on the province f punjab in pakistan
Begun around 2900-2500 BC N
NAturals BOrders- hindu kush mountains, and the himalayank
Its both mountainous and desertous
The great bath is one of the best-known structures, was used as a public bath of the ancient indus valley
Smallest valley cause their langauge was very known or translated
Built some of the first planned cities
Crated Dravudian Laungage
religion - Polythesic (goddess of fertillity)
Buried objects with the dead
Many tabbos define cleaniness
Nature worship
They enjoyed dance
Had bowls made of sivler and bronze
Had many pictograms and designs
Women were key to survival due to their fertility, woman were to bare and raise childern
Men served a pritest, warriors, and leaders etc
Weights for trade and taxes
Seals were used for currency
Control by a control system
Theocray (priest rules)
Lots of related things to hinduism
Total of 3 laws
Kept population defined in classes, kept them in order, and kept religon as a huge role
Dharma 1st law- influenced by class, gender, occupation, and age
Karma- relligous law of cause where people chose their fate in the afterlife so if you disobey youll have a bad afterlife and so on
Cycle of Samsara- cycle of birth, death, and rebirth influenced by ones action
Want to escape to escape to achieve ultimate bliss
No evicence of armies and only evidence of positive paintings and art
Gained power from farming
Lost power for no real reason
Many theories for it is external aggression, unstable aggression,
Did a lot of trading
Mercantile- trading
Mainly urban- farmiing
Sumeron
Southwest of Asia and part of mesopotamia iraq
in the fertile cresent
gov
Indiviual complex city state
frist burdens e
each city state had a king
First scribes
Laws and wars
the code of Ur-Nammu
Great leader
Jushur- Kush
Enmerkar- Uruk
Mesh-ane-Pada- Ur
Enhengal- lagash
Sargon the great took
THey lost the fertile of the land
Polytheistic
school taught by priest
most girls were homeschooled
learning reinforced by beating
Votive marble sculptures from tell asmar
Known for cigorotes
Entertainment- music, boxing, board games, and backgammon
Had alot of gender equality
Women highly respected
Invention- wheel, 360 degrees circle, childrens toys, sailbots, calendar
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