The Assyrian civilization located in the Middle East. It rose due to their intimidating army. They had chariots, mounted weapons, and siege weapons used to break down gates and walls to take over kingdoms. They were famous for being sly and quick in battle. They would overturn a village without anyone knowing the Assyrians were on the verge of taking over. They had cruel and gruesome ways to instill fear in villagers of the newly conquered area. They would cut off appendages, ears, nose, or their head. This left everyone petrified of the Assyrians. They would split up the population they took over by spreading them to different parts of the empire to prevent uprising. Due to the population growing, governors were assigned to rule over province. …show more content…
The governor was given full powers including terror to enforce laws, collect annual tribute, and provide recruits for the military. Weakness led the Assyrians to a downfall. As we have seen in many other civilizations in the past, people ruled by terror because of the weak government typically don’t last long. The system needs to be supported by the people to be successful. If the system lets up on their harsh ruling system, the people will rebel. The whole empire can crumble, as it did, due to the Median people. Nineveh, the capital city, was pulverized by the Median people. It was referred to as the “bloody city” due to all the bodies laying on the ground. Within four years, all traces of the Assyrian empire was gone. The Phoenician people lived along the Mediterranean where present day Lebanon is.
They became the prime Mediterranean merchant traders. They were shipbuilders, navigators, and colonizers. Cadiz and Carthage were established trading ports that they utilized. They were incredible craftsmen and built furniture, jewelry, metal and glassware. Their most famous export was purple colored woolen cloth. The purple color was extracted from shellfish from the coast. Purple symbolized royalty, which is why kings and queens were dressed in it. The Phoenicians mathematicians developed navigational techniques to sail without land in sight. They started their own 22 letter language to keep records of trade. They had a great economy and many intelligent individuals. The only downfall to the Phoenician government is their autonomous independence. They could have been a spectacular empire, but they never joined forces to become one. The Phoenicians are very historically significant. They created the alphabet and many empires based their lettering system of theirs. Each letter stood for a sound and their were vocals involved. The Chinese and Babylonians had symbols representing actions or objects with pictures or lines. It was a completely different way to record things, but it was much more simple to do. It was passed to the Greeks, Romans, and our alphabet even comes from
it. The Minoans were located on the island of Crete and were named after their king, King Minos. It is believed that Crete was struck by a tsunami from a volcano explosion destroying the thriving civilization. It was in its golden age and potentially the most prosperous empire in the Mediterranean. Their culture was based off trade and may have even passed the Phoenicians in navigational skills for sailing. They supplied and traded olive oil, wine, metal ware, and beautiful pottery. They were credited for being the most skilled artisans and created it just for pleasure. Their art was not significant in means of religion, but for what people enjoyed. By analyzing paintings, archeologists determined the Minoans were happy and prosperous people. Gender equality was also depicted even in athletic contests. They had no formal religion, but believed in many gods and even more goddesses. The Minoan Mother Goddess was an early inspiration for later Greek goddesses. The women of Crete were dressed elaborate dresses and ringlets. They were very fashionable. The Minoans were very open about their sexuality as well. The miniature sculptures were exquisitely depicted and although very sensual, they show their great craftsmanship. Archaeologists recovered a royal palace at Knossos in Crete. It was threes stories high and over six acres of land. It was built of brick and limestone, had apartments, storerooms, corridors, courtyards, and large stairways. It came equipped with running water and a sanitation system in the palace that was better than anything else in Europe until Roman times. This amazing palace stood strong through the tsunami. It indicated the Minoans not only knew what materials to use, but how to construct it to be sturdy and impregnable. The Minoans were very sophisticated people. They may have been the most sophisticated civilization during their time from what we know and have discovered. They had trade and navigational skills that took them to places others could not reach. They also had many goods to trade along with their beautiful pieces of art. The people were happy on Crete which is one thing that is missing from most every civilization that we have talked about. Although the tsunami destroyed their future, just think of how far they could have came with the potential they had. On the other hand, it may have been good that they were left a mystery. The island was submerged while the people were in the golden age. We have seen with other civilizations that there is soon to be a downfall and rebellion after the golden age. I believe that they were the most sophisticated, but it also helps that they didn’t make it past their golden age to deal with the trouble that other empires had.
An Assyrian Emperor’s Resume: Ferocious Conquests a Specialty, written by an unknown author, offers evidence about the Assyrian Society around the time of 875 BCE, under the rule of Emperor Ashur-Nasir-Pal II, including insight in to the Assyrian society as well as what they valued and thought was important, however we cannot believe that this source is one hundred percent accurate.
Cuneiform was the first ever form of writing. The Sumerians were the main inventors of this writing. The symbol as we know them now consist of lines and wedges. One of the
The king of Assyria was so crucial and important to the Assyrian Empire, because he did everything to keep the Assyrian Empire in order. After King Tiglathpileser changed the military full of slaves and peasants into a military with strong and trained men, and supplied them with iron weapons, the Assyrian soldiers were undefeatable against their opponents. But the Assyrians were harsh when it came to preventing rebellions from the people, because they used cruel tactics like skinning prisoners alive. Assyrian society soon divided the people into three classes, which identified who they were, and they were free, landowning citizens, farmers and artisans, and
2) The Assyrians and Hittites changed the political landscape of Western Asia by their superior military organization and their technology. They created new technology and weapons for the military, like launched stone projectiles, armored spearmen, cavalry equipment, and chariots. With these new technologies, military organizations became very strong, and had a better chance of beating their enemy.
The Phoenicians were a tranquil society that chose a lifestyle of peace and mutual wealth over war and conquest; a trait that was out of place in the violent and war-stricken ancient world, but undoubtedly lead to their ultimate success and prosperity. The Phoenicians were a unique and diverse culture that made many developments and advancements in the ancient world, particularly in the development of sea travel – creating ships that could travel farther and faster than any other ships of the time period – craftsmanship in the form of speciality dyes using advanced techniques as well as the creation of blown glass, and the advancements in the trade system by mainly exporting products that were created with an intended buyer in mind.
During Mesopotamian times, wars were what divided ruling periods. There were many different peoples that dominated Ancient Mesopotamia and the Assyrians were one of them. The Assyrians prospered mainly because of their divine talent to defensively resist and offensively overwhelm their enemies. At no point of Assyrian rule was there ever a time without conflict of some sort.
When analyzing ancient civilization and how it began, there are many elements and aspects that should be considered. Questions such as how did civilization begin? What lead to its creation? Where did it begin, and why in that particular location? Many of these questions can be examined and answered by researching what many believe is the world’s earliest civilization, Mesopotamia. It is widely believed that this region was chosen and supported one of the world’s first civilizations. This area was settled over 10,000 years ago by a group of people known as the Sumerians (Cunningham & Reich, 2010).
Different ancient cultures and societies had either great, somewhat considerate, or horrible treatment of women.
civilization. They started the Olympic games. Greeks come up with the idea of an alphabet
Throughout time societies have developed and progressed from each other through trade and exchanging knowledge, as well as numerous other aspects. Although, initially each civilization possesses their individual benefits, which causes each civilization to be quite diverse. During the River valley civilizations period, the civilizations Mesopotamia and Egypt developed upon their society politically, economically, and culturally. However, each civilization progressed upon these aspects differently based on the structure of their society, geography of their settlement, and their overall beliefs. Politically, Mesopotamia had a less centralized government, as they possessed numerous city-states, which were self-governed. Egypt, however, possessed
82).” According to Walter Ong, the act of communication through writing heightens ones consciousness and begins to change the way in which the writer thinks. This in turn facilitates the development of increasingly sophisticated technological advancements. Early pictographs were typically monotone and very simplistic in nature. However, as the technology evolved, humankind developed multi-hued writing media that improved the visual accuracy of the images created and subsequently improved the complexity of the message delivered. Essentially more visual detail equals a more complex symbology and abstraction. Some major milestones in the evolution of communication technology include the simplification of earlier literal depictions in the late Paleolithic era, the development of the first “alphabets” as quasi-abstract symbols representing the basic sounds of spoken language. These early alphabets were extremely complex and cumbersome until the Phoenicians developed a “totally abstract and alphabetical system of twenty-two simple phonetic signs, replacing the formidable complexity of cuneiform and hieroglyphs (Higgins, 2003).” The inhabitants of Greece and Rome adopted this system of writing which was in effect by 1500 B.C. and later developed what we know as the
Among the many kingdoms in the Ancient World, Neo-Assyria was the most brutal and evil one of them all. Throughout their history, they’ve demolished anyone that stood in their way, creating what is identified today as terrorism. With their advanced weaponry, their military personnel was relentless, making them much more powerful than the surrounding kingdoms and cities, allowing them to take control. Not only that, but the god they sacrificed to, the one that was worshiped and praised, was Assur, the god of war.
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt are both cradles of civilization. Both contributed greatly to human development through their achievements, failures, peoples, scientific accomplishments, philosophies, religions, and contributions.
The Akkadian Empire (c. 2334-2154 B.C.) was a third millennium B.C. Mesopotamian empire situated in the fertile areas of modern day Iraq. Comprised of land that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, it became the largest world empire up to that time and the first Semitic dynasty in the region. The name Akkadian refers to its capital city of Agade, which has yet to be discovered, but is believed to be located somewhere north of Babylon upon the banks of the Euphrates.
Civilizations is identified by institutions whether is it governmental or cultural institutions. Mesopotamia is just one of the civilizations arouse about 3500- 3000 BCE, and influenced Homer on his literature about Iliad and Odyssey, where in this era Sumerian writings has thousands of clay tablets inscribed with wedge- shaped symbols of Sumerian script indicating that form of writing is developed around 3000 BCE. Then religiosity among Sumerian as well as Akkadian and Babylonian shared many basic attitudes and concepts that became the foundation for other Near Eastern beliefs system. Mesopotamian religion held that gods had created human beings to serve powerless mortals had no choice but to obey and worship these deities. Mesopotamian are polytheistic they believed in many gods and goddesses existed and often competed with one another. Believing that their gods is in human form as well with a strengths and weaknesses of mortals, believed their deities lived in the same way as people did, and when it comes in approaching the supernatural powers they are so practical, deities are there gods and have their own duties and responsibilities, there’s a sky of god and earth gods like for instance Anu, the sky of god; Enlil, the air god; Utu, the sun god; Enki the god of earth and the freshwater god; Nanna, the moon goddess; Inanna (or Ishatar), the goddess of love and war; and Ninhursag, the mother goddess. When it comes in their literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh focuses on fundamental themes that concern warriors in an aristocratic society; the need to be brave in the face of danger, the choice of death before dishonor, the conflict between companionship and sexual pleasure, the power of the gods over weak mortals, and the finality ...