For this essay I have chosen two sculptures, each from a different culture that I am very fond of, to compare and contrast. The first piece that I chose is an Egyptian sculpture of royalty (picture on the left). This statue represents an eternal existence reflected in its emotionless calm and enduring serenity. In this statue Menkure and His Chief Queen from the Old Kingdom’s 4th Dynasty are depicted; it is thought to have originally stood on the processional causeway leading to Menkure’s pyramid
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My Personal Culture Name: Institution: Date: Culture defines the origin of people in terms of location, who they are, and where they are ending. Individuals are unique and interesting in nature because of culture. Culture is learnt (Bonder, 2002, p. 19). Culture bonds individuals to their friends, family, and nation. This paper will discuss my personal culture that has impacted my identity. My culture is free, refreshing, and full of fun; where moral standards are highly apprehended
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mathematics, and architecture. They left behind impressive architecture and inscriptions that are a record of their symbolic artwork. Researchers have established that the Maya cities were completely abandoned by 900 A.D. Evidence reveals that the Maya Civilization was among the most dominant indigenous societies in Mesopotamia. Different from other indigenous populations, the Maya were centered in one geographical region. Evidence that they were organized makes it a challenge to understand what could have
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The Conquests and Legacy of Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedonia was known as Alexander the Great. He became king when his father died and went on to conquer most of the known world of his era. He is known as the Great not only for his military intelligence but also for how he handled the various regions he conquered in a very diplomatic way. Alexander amassed the largest empire in the entire ancient world. His empire covered 3,000 miles. After three years of very gruesome fighting, Alexander
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The Hellenistic World chapter, “It suggests that women worked and earned money instead of staying carefully guarded within the home. It also shows a loosening of the tight family ties that had marked the Greek poleis and the ancient Middle East civilizations” (Sherman & Salisbury, 2013). Athens supposedly experienced “a developing democratic form of government… that allowed them to run and control the growing city” (Sherman & Salisbury, 2013), while during Hellenistic era, ”Society, economy, and
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Tuere A. Evans World Cultures I Week 4 : Assignment I Due Date: May 4, 2014 3 The Mayans were an early Mesoamerican society, inheriting the districts of the Olmec pop culture deserted, utilizing those grounds they turned into an immense and command development. They were affected by three unique social orders. Above all else their forerunners, the Olmecs, helped impact them from their assets, all the more particularly, elastic. Elastic was utilized to help structure a ball amusement that
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Rufino Tamayo Museum, the only place in Mexico where you can see pre-Hispanic works on display as art for art’s sake. Some of the most significant humanistic pieces come not from celebrated city states like Teotihuacán or Chichen Itza, but from the civilizations of the west coast, from what is today Guerrero, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. For the most part, these cultures remain an enigma. “To some extent this is due to geographic isolations,” Pesqueira explains, “but mostly it is because they
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myths to explain different aspects of the world, but some people also use myths to control the social misunderstanding and diversely thinking level. An example of this kind of usage can be found in the history and mythology of ancient Greek civilization. One of the most known and popular myths of Ancient Greece is the Myth of Minotaur who is believed to have bull head and human body. He lived on the island Crete, near the Heraklion city. He is highly associated with the Labyrinth, in which he
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meeting the West. The important lesson in this era was the lesson in change and continuity. It was also a period of uncertainty which the Greeks slowly learned to adapt to. However, Alexander the Great's conquests had remarkable effect on the civilizations during this time as well. Alexander, along with his leading generals swept across Egypt, in the Middle-east, and Persia's into India becoming key players in the spread of Hellenistic culture. There various type of changes that occurred during
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fortifications. The Minoans had developed significant naval power and for many centuries lived in contact with all the major civilizations of the time without being significantly threatened by external forces. Their commercial contact with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia undeniably influenced their own culture, and the Minoan civilization in turn appeared as the forerunner of the Greek civilization. The Minoan Culture contributed to Greek development by establishing a sea trade. They also produced many mercantile
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