In this critique of Kasia Szpakowska’s book, Daily Life in Ancient Egpyt, I am going to discuss her purpose, my likes and dislikes, her use of images, and how I felt this book related to this course. Daily Life in Ancient Egypt was an excellent choice for this course. The information supplements the in-class lectures by providing sufficient information into the life of the mundane versus the life of the rulers and pharaohs. It provides information that is clear and concise so the reader doesn’t have to dissect the information and gains a clear understanding of real life for the Ancient Egyptians. In addition, this book is a good reference for other classes in ancient civilizations as well as a reference for those of us who are going on to teach…
This paper analyzes a genre known as the “creation myths,” as told by a quartet of eastern Mediterranean cultures. These stories’ share a common outline and contain similar facets; especially, when looking at the mythology that explains the creation and establishment of the human race. The stories examined in this paper include, Sumerian/Babylonian’s When on High “Creation and Marduk” (composed circa 2000 BC), Greek poet Hesiod’s Theogony and the Works and Days (composed circa 700 BC), Judaism and Christianity’s Genesis “Creation” (composed circa 700-400 BC), and Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses (composed circa 43 BC).…
1. The three stories are similar, because the theme in all three is that evil will be destroyed by water. In addition, in all three stories the main character is warned to build a boat to escape the flood, is told to save himself, his family, and sampling of animals, and the boat in all stories comes to rest on a mountain. Moreover, a great rain covers the land with water and all the boats/arcs land in a mountain in the Middle East while all the other mountains are underwater.…
These three texts have unknown differences that come together to evidently share the same interesting story. The similarities between the texts are evidently expressed as you look further into the information. They all include character development, when in the texts they need to show the development…
You have an interesting theory, Joyce. It was hard for me to determine why most of these myths have the same message. Something that I have noticed from most of them is that their stories are somewhat similar, the creation myths mostly. At least, they all agree that the world was in darkness at the beginning and the sequence of events that happened as well. For most of these stories, the first thing that was created was the light (even in the Bible).…
In the section the ancient era 1500 B.C-475 A.D the author explains the struggles that many people with disabilities faced during 1500 B.C- 475 A.D. At the time, no records were kept about the lives of a person with disabilities, this lead many struggled for their voice to be heard. At the same time their were two groups in particular that had a negative image about people with disabilities. The Greeks and Romans were huge contributors to art, philosophy, literature and science but they lack of knowledge and ability to interact with people with disabilities. During this time the Greeks and Romans spend their time ofending and controlling those with less power.…
I feel like all three stories are different in the way they say and do things. The three stories are all different in how they handle situations. We can learn that not each story is the same way, but we can learn from…
Historians and archeologists have found evidence of human civilization in the Nile Valley dating as far back as 120,000 years ago. Over time, population began to grow and divide itself into two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Around 3150 B.C., a pharaoh from the Early Dynastic Period gained control of both kingdoms uniting them to form the Egypt known today. With a population of 90 million, it makes Egypt the third most populated country in all of Africa. Roughly, 20 percent of this population lives within 20 kilometers of the Nile River.…
The category archaic human lacks a cohesive and universal definition. According to one description, Homo sapiens is a single species encompassing several subspecies that comprise the archaics and modern humans. Under this definition, modern humans are referred to as Homo sapiens sapiens and archaics are likewise labeled with the prefix "Homo sapiens". Other taxonomists choose not to consider archaics and modern humans as a single species but as several different species. The separating lines that distinguish modern humans from archaic H. sapiens and archaics from H. erectus are vague.…
these stories show and hold a similar theme between all of them. With many parts of someone’s conflicting and being analyzed and seen differently people are shifted with every part of their life, event, people, and society rules make a big part of who someone is and can be consider major part of one's…
Before civilizations arose, humans survived by hunting wild animals and gathering plants. In order to this, they had to move from place to place based on seasons and animal migratory patterns. As humans returned to the same places during certain seasons for food, they learned that buried seeds from the year before turned into plants that they could eat. The discovery of agriculture allowed people to stay in one place and have larger populations due to more food, as a result of this, civilizations were born. Humans progressed from living in bands of hunter-gatherers to thriving in great civilizations because they had enough food to have specialised jobs and they obtained a successful government.…
Introduction To Ancient Rome In ancient Rome people lived extremely short lives and the average life expectancy during this time was approximately twenty-five to forty-five years old and only two percent of the population lived to eighty years old. This is very low in comparison to the average life expectancy in the modern society which can go up to approximately seventy-five to ninety years of age. The life expectancy was so low in ancient Roman times because there weren’t any effective medicines and people didn’t have decent diets, there was poor sanitation as well as an overcrowded population. The ancient Romans also didn’t live in particularly good environments as to how people live in the modern society and because of this there were various diseases that killed a lot of people because of the overall poor living conditions and there was no antibiotics or other vital medicines that could help fight off the diseases and illnesses.…
Life in Egypt Today, Egypt’s high environmental, temperature, and migration levels are still the same as it was back in 1967 and even later than that. However, there are many other things that make this country what it is today. "For example, the expanded irrigation of desert areas after the completion of the Aswan High dam in 1970s; which has increased soil salinity and aided the spread of waterborne diseases”(Malefic, Asante; 2002 “Culture and Customs of Egypt. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press”). But, what about the evolutionary lines for both the governmental and religious cultural history of this country; do they play a big role in this country?…
“There's a million reasons why I should give you up, But the heart wants what it wants.” These are the lyrics to the 2014 breakup song “The Heart Wants What it Wants” by Selena Gomez. The Aeneid is the Trojan’s response to the Greek’s The Odyssey. The author of The Aeneid , Virgil, wrote this story with the intention of it being remembered throughout history.…
Societies have always held a woman to a different standard compared to that of a man. Ancient societies had many rules and rituals for young girls into woman hood. Imagine yourself being born as a female in Ancient China, you are only three days old, your father would place you under a dark cold bed, to show how lowly and weak you were compared to a male baby. This is one of the many different rituals that were regularly used though out China, Ancient Greece, and Rome. The rituals performed on a female during this time, follows suite with the status of a Woman in Ancient times.…