Reflection Paper In Humanities

What is humanities? Humanities is the study of a human culture, their art, religion, history, Philosophy and their traditions. What I 've learned to understand about humanities is that it 's not just about what life was like years back before any of us were born, but more of what life was like and how it was brought and continued on to celebrate as a tradition today. For instance in past years architecture done in certain ways had specific meanings like the Roman arch was unique and is mostly seen in Rome, of course you may see the "Roman arch" in architecture in different parts of the world but knowing the history of the Roman culture you 'll think of it as something the Roman came up with. The same goes for religion art and philosophy, each

I was pretty impressed at how different not only was the culture in comparison but also how many other cultures would be just as different as well. The Nazca culture was Flourished in 100BC to 800AD in Southern Peru. This was a culture that was extremely famous and successful in art such as pottery. Their pottery consisted a lot of naturalistic things such as animals, plants, and humans and usually contained 15 colors. Their art also included Geometry like spirals, lines, circles as well as Mythical and religion.Nazcas were firm believers of nature, this was a society in which was based off agriculture. A typical art piece in the Nazca culture was the bottle bridge with 2 landfills, there was other pottery created but wasn’t as popular as the bottle bridge.Their art and pottery was their way of representing elements of everyday

Most of the nazca temples were even created in honor of these beliefs and was their way to please their gods and not suffer shortage of food. Something I found interesting that this culture did was that instead of having Priests there were shamans. What these shamans did was be intermediaries between spirits and the everyday world. In order to do this shamans would use hallucinogens from a famous cactus in Peru called "San Pedro", this was their way of controlling super natural sources. As mentioned in my presentation people from all over the world travel to Peru not only for their famous sightseeing of Machu pichu but also for their famous drink that the shamans would create that was known as Ayahuasca. Although this was a way of interfering with spirits and the present, sources state that now this is even used to treat PTSD, depression and