The second beneficial effect of human interaction with the environment is the huge advances in culture. Humans have invented different methods of using the environment to create different beliefs and customs in their societies. Sumerians, for example, believed in many gods and demons. They though the gods controlled everything that happened in the world, including natural disasters. Gods were like normal humans but immortal and all-powerful. Humans, on the other side, were only their servants. Ziggurats were built to sacrifice animals, wine, and food for their god’s happiness. A poem called the Epic of Gilgamesh exposed different myths and stories about their gods. Sumerians would base their daily actions on their god’s desires. Egyptians …show more content…
Additionally, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were three very influential men that lived in Greece. They all used the environment and their cultural beliefs to create myths. They questioned the nature of the world and lead people to question the structure of society and the standards for justice and fairness. Their different contributions lead to an advance in the culture of Greek society. But also in Greece, there was another very influential leader named Alexander. He was able to bring a very huge cultural impact through his different acts. He adopted the Persians way of dressing and some of their customs. These way some Greek and Eastern customs started blending and creating cultural diffusion. Alexandria was one of the cities that was influenced by Alexander's actions. This city became very global because it had a vast mixture of culture and different customs from the Aegean as well as from Egypt. Various people have influenced the culture of the world due to their interaction with the environment and have also found different ways of expanding their ideas, which has lead to cultural …show more content…
Since the time of early humans, they have used their surrounding to create different tools. For example, Cro- Magnons created tools since they needed to survive. They increased their food surplus by inventing a lot of different types of tools. Resources like stone, wood and bone were used to make more than 100 distinct tools. On the other hand, Egyptians, made other huge advances in technology. They figured out a system of writing called hieroglyphics, a type of writing systems in which a picture stood for an idea. They also invented the calendar to be able to keep track of the time between the floods and plan their planting seasons. The calendar that they created was very accurate and that is why it is the most common on and the calendar currently used in most the world. Egyptian also made advances in medicine and science. They were able to check a person’s heart rate, set broken bones, and also had cures for fevers and wounds. Sometimes even surgery was practiced on some of the sick or injured people. But the Egyptians were not the only ones to develop a language, the Indo-Europeans did as well. They were even the ancestors of many of the modern languages in Europe. This was due to their various migrations and the way the languages developed independently in the different groups of people. Another example are the Hittites, some indo-europeans, who surpassed in their
Imagine a world without the wheel. Picture a world without math. Now, without knowing time. Well, these are some of the many contributions that the Mesopotamians made to society.
Mesopotamian temples were run like great households where the gods were fed lavish meals, entertained with music, and honored with devotion and ritual. Mesopotamians were religiously tolerant and accepted the possibility that different people might have different gods. They had a gloomy picture of the afterlife. Mesopotamian families had ceremonies to remember/ honor their dead. Religious teaching influenced daily life in a huge way. Religion played a big part in literature and art of Mesopotamia. Epic poems told how the world was created and of hero-king Gilgamesh, who tried to escape death by going on a journey to find the sole survivor of the great flood. The most imposing religious structure was the ziggurat, a tower in stages. Poetry about ziggurats was often compared to
The Epic of Gilgamesh served the purpose to shed some light on the culture of Sumeria. The story has helped give factual information even though the epic many not be true in whole, it may have some truth in parts. It has given us more knowledge on the architectural craftsmanship of Sumerian people, and also shows us the belief of many gods in Sumer's polytheistic society.
It has been shown throughout history that women have played a variety of roles whether it was ranging from being a piece of property to being the queen. As showed in The Epic of Gilgamesh women played many different roles some were concubines and others were said to be goddesses. As said women played a very significant role in this era due to: being very fertile, having roles of goddesses, and even a woman was the one who showed Enkidu here ways. However at times you have to look past the exterior and look at the interior of the woman to find the real significance she played.
He was a man who was on a mission, a man who was just resting in a faraway land till it was time to go back on the attack once more. His short stay in this land, led to one of the biggest changes in history. This change marked the Greek period in Egyptian history. Before Alexander entered Egypt, they were under the ruling of the Persians. The Persians made to change Egypt into what they wanted it to be. They held no respect for the people, no respect for the traditions and the old ways, and taxed the people high amounts. Alexander built up Egypt after the Persian rule. The Persians tried to change Egypt to form there laws and beliefs, and Alexander, he did nothing to change the old way, he brought them back, mixed them with new ones the people
They have built irrigation canals to bring water to all off their fields. According to document 3, Farmers would use a shadouf to irrigate their crops. A shadouf is a weighted pole with a bucket on one end. The shadouf would swing the bucket around so that it can be emptied in to the irrigation canal. That is an example of technological advances Egypt had at the time. In document 4, they talk about how they prepared the pharaoh for the afterlife, and how they built the pyramids. Pyramids were built by peasants with huge blocks of stone as a final resting place for the ka, or spirit, of the Pharaoh. In this resting place, they placed gold, jewels, chariots, and statues. This contributed to humanity because the civilians could irrigate their fields
While researching Sumerian culture I learned many interesting things that I was not aware of before. Many little known facts about Sumer will change the way that people feel about other ancient societies. Many advances that are not attributed to Sumeria, often were pioneered by this advanced culture long before others. Most people don't even know much about the origan of the Sumerian culture.
Perhaps the largest effect he had was the spreading of Greek culture. This may not have been intentional, but his conquering of formerly unfriendly territories allowed Greek culture to spread across West Asia, and vice versa (“Alexander the Great”). He also managed to overshadow other great people of his age. What may have otherwise been the ‘Age of Demosthenes’ or the ‘Age of Aristotle’ was instead the Age of Alexander (Holt). That he could overshadow other great men of his generation like these is nothing short of amazing. Another testament to his greatness is perhaps more astonishing. Even today, to be compared to Alexander the Great is a large compliment. Other famous military leaders, such as Julius Caesar, tried their best to emulate his actions and prowess as a leader. This shows how great his achievements and reputation were. Alexander the Great truly is the best military leader of all
Historians like Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch wrote about this influential man and his effect on Greece. These
The archaic Sumerian standards can be considered the first implementation of descriptive distancing discourse in written language. First and foremost, standards were designations of official titles; additionally, later Sumerian and Akkadian texts used the names of deities, rulers, regions, cities, et cetera in conjunction with standards [Sumerian 2]. The titles used are also enhanced through the use of modifiers; two such modifiers (seen with the titles Unkin and Ga) are Gal (which means great, chief, superior, and master) and Nun (which means prince, princely, and loft) [Sumerian 8]. The Egyptian status titles in Nubia were not quite as blunt as those in Sumer; while there was some parallelism in the form of titles such as “prince” or “godly” there were implementations that had heavy
It is generally acknowledged that starting with our ancestor Homo erectus, humans began to use their hands to make tools (Ponting, 18). This knowledge is based on dating techniques of archaeological findings such as skeletons and early tools, and the rough estimate of the appearance of this tool-using human is around 2 million years ago. In case it is not obvious, that is a very long time. Even in the last 4000 years, the amount of change that human culture and society has undergone is enormous, and at least that much is historically documented by at least some cultures in varying intervals. But to jump all the way back to 2 million years involves a very far leap indeed. There is not much evidence that tells us anything about societies so far back in time. There are some bones and stones, but nothing that really breaks down all those thousands of years into any real understanding of the societies of that era.
He was also influential and clever. In each conquest, Alexander retained local officials who were loyal to him and he appointed Macedonian governors to the province capitals. He founded administrative capitals to control the regions. He founded Alexandria, Egypt which became the cultural capital of Mediterranean in the ancient world. Nevertheless, he also began to wear Persian clothing and he encouraged his soldiers to do the same in order to keep the peace. Therefore, he executed the men who resisted obeying his order. He married with a Persian and he encouraged his soldiers to marry with Persians to mix the culture. Persians loved Alexander and they respected him like he was a Persian like them. Even the Persian army joined with Alexander by will. That is why he controlled his massive empire without riots and this proves that he was very influential and clever.
What are the features that distinguish urban culture (aka "civilization") from neolithic culture or prehistory? Where and when are these features first recorded? How did they develop? List 5 and then move on to the next questions.
The ancient Egyptians were people of many firsts. They were the first people of ancient times to believe in life after death. They were the first to build in stone and to fashion the arch in stone and brick. Even before the unification of the Two Lands, the Egyptians had developed a plow and a system of writing. They were accomplished sailors and shipbuilders. They learned to chart the cosmos in order to predict the Nile flood. Their physicians prescribed healing remedies and performed surgical operations. They sculpted in stone and decorated the walls of their tombs with naturalistic murals in vibrant colors. The legacy of ancient Egypt is written in stone across the face of the country from the pyramids of Upper Egypt to the rock tombs in the Valley of the Kings to the Old Kingdom temples of Luxor and Karnak to the Ptolemaic temples of Edfu and Dendera and to the Roma...
They made Algebra, this helped them build the pyramids and create many wonders of the