Horus Narmer is usually considered the first king of the 1st Dynasty, perhaps even the first to have ruled over the whole of Egypt, or as the last king of the Predynastic Period. He is one of the first Egyptian kings to have left some historical records. Very little is known about the king we call Horus Narmer. Even the reading and meaning of his name are not certain. What we do know is that his name has been found throughout Egypt, which is sometimes interpreted that Narmer was the first king to have ruled over he whole of Egypt.…
hammurabi was born circa 1810 B.C. (around 1810 B.C.). Hammurabi took power as the sixth king within the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, succeeding his father Sin-Muballit, in the year 1792 B.C. During the beginning years of his reign he mainly focused on building up defenses and improving the infrastructure of Babylon. Throughout his reign he paid careful attention to the needs of his people, improved the irrigation of crops, and oversaw the construction of temples to the Sumerian gods.…
Hammurabi was a Babylonian King who had many accomplishments, one being the Code of Hammurabi. According to the text, Hammurabi was a great leader to his empire. His successful skills as a military leader and an administrator qualified him for rule. During his reign he paid attention to the needs of his people, improve the irrigation of fields, built opulent temples to the gods. and maintained the infrastructures of the cities under his control.…
The Sargon Legend, he was born the illegitimate son of a Changeling which could refer to temple priestess of the goddess. However, Inanna never knew his father and his mother could not reveal her pregnancy or keep the child. Although, she put the him in the sealed basket with tar and let him go on the Euphrates River, where the water carried him safely to where he was found by Akki, who was a gardener for the Ur-Zababa, the king of Sumerian city of Kish. Then the legend was created, and Sargon distanced himself from the king of the past who claimed divine right and aligned people of the region rather than the ruling elite.…
Nearly 4,000 years ago, a man named Hammurabi became king of a small city-state known as Babylon. We known very little about Hammurabi’s personal life, we aren’t even sure what he looked like. However, we do know that Hammurabi developed a system of justice carved on a large pillar brick containing 282 laws. What are these laws for and just have it affected it’s people?…
In comparison of the two readings Crone, Pre-Industrial societies and the selection from Oppert The Annals of Sargon we can see what political role of Sargon and his rise to Kingdom to see if Sargon fits the rules for a complex human society as outlined in Crone’s document. Sargon is as identified as “the great King, the powerful King, King of the legions, King of Assyria, Viceroy of the gods at Babylon, King of the Sumers and of the Accads, favorite of the great gods.” (Oppert pg1, 1) This context is key to explaining the mentality behind Sargon as a powerful leader or even as far as an arrogant leader, or someone who has an egotistical mentality. “The gods ASSUR, NEBO, and MERODACH have conferred on me the royalty of the nations, and they have…
The oldest son became the heir to the throne. Since you were chosen because you were an heir to the throne, you were not chosen based on your leadership. This led to countries with absolute monarchy to have both good monarchists and bad ones. French nationalism was altered by absolute monarchy by giving the French an identity based on their monarch during the time. This…
Alexander the Great was one of the first military geniuses. He took over most of the known world when he lived, and all before he was 32. He conquered the Greeks, the Persians, the Egyptians, and more. He created a vast empire that only crumpled after he died. Most people think he was a great hero, but in reality he was a villain and one should not display him as a hero.…
Between the years 600 BCE and 600 CE, a great contributor to the rise of empires were the people who ruled them. Specifically, in Ancient Greece, leaders such as Pericles played a valuable role in organizing the empire. Pericles promoted the arts, literature and philosophy which resulted in Athens becoming the core of culture and education in the empire. Without Pericles’s role in Greece, the Greeks wouldn't have had such literate and cultured leaders to rule the empire. The role of education in Greek’s society resulted in people’s ability to strategize various methods to strengthen the empire.…
Alexander III of Macedon also known as Alexander The Great, he rose to power after the tragic death of his father, and he became one of the greatest conquerors of all time. He is considered one the the greatest military geniuses of all time, and he was an inspiration for later conquerors. Alexanders upbringing created who he became. Alexander The Great was born in Pella the ancient capital of Macedonia in 356 BC. He was the son of Philip II the king of Macedonia, and his mother Olympias the princess of the neighboring Epirus.…
Alexander the Great was important to history because he changed the history and fate of many tribes and he also had his people kneel before him. First of all, he had his people kneel before him. This wasn’t unusual to the Persians who would kneeled before people and leaders all the time, but for the Greeks this was unusual because they only knelt before statues of gods not kings. Generals considered this an action of indignity to kneel before a man. This is important because today we see many people who kneel before other people.…
Connections to Mesopotamia What do you think of when you hear the word “Mesopotamia?” What thoughts or pictures flash through your mind as you think about “Mesopotamia?” To most people, Mesopotamia is just a word to describe a place that existed a long time before our existence. Not much is known about this mysterious place and some people may not even know what it is or where Mesopotamia is located.…
The New Assyrian and Persian empires were two of the earliest major empires in the world. First came the Assyrians which ruled from 900-600BC, and the Persians began their rule around 550BC. Even with these two empires becoming major establishments in what is known today as the middle east, they are quite different from each other when it comes to many ideologies. Such differences could include: warfare, religion, social hierarchy, and many other things that shape the way we reflect on two of our earliest, and most powerful empires known to man. When it came to the Assyrian empire, one thing that immediately stands out is their brute force and utter determination to dominate the land and people around them.…
What Has Been Lost An impossible task. The challenge of defeating an undefeatable king. An old-time hero is thrown into an epic journey with a younger, slightly clueless hero. “So...it starts again.…
Without a kingdom there is no king, just as without humans to worship the gods they are…