The Gateway Arch is an arch that stretches 630 feet high and 630 feet long in St. Louis Missouri. The reason they chose the arch shape was because in 1947 and 1948 there was a competition to design a monument.. Eero Saarien won with his arch design, it was built to honor the western pioneers, and celebrate St. Louis’s role in the westward expansion of the USA. The construction of it started on February 12,1963.…
The Babylonians were the first to form an empire. Babylonia was a city-state of Mesopotamia, which came to be the most powerful city. Babylon was located towards the southern end of the Euphrates River and Tigris River. The name Babylon means “Gate of God.” Babylon was considered a major port at the time.…
Throughout Global history, there have been many river valleys which play a big role on early civilization and make the important contribution to the world. Three civilization of these is Mesopotamia, India, and China. Mesopotamia is the land that located between Tigris and Euphrates river. This can be considered as the reason why Mesopotamia called Mesopotamia. In Greek, it technically means between two rivers, and obviously this is exactly what was happening.…
For the Code of Hammurabi, Babylonian ruler Hammurabi is receiving laws from the sun god Shamash. With these laws from the gods, Hammurabi was able to unite the disjointed government in Mesopotamia. In the Palette of Narmer, King Namer of Egypt is shown to wear the white crown of Upper Egypt while attacking a figure and the red crown of Lower Egypt when leading his people. This is a showing of power of the man who repaired the union of the previously splintered kingdom. As one man is conversing with a god while the other one is taking control of the land, these two art pieces show that power that these kings held.…
Hammurabi was a forceful ruler. He built dams to control the water of the river. Silver, timber, copper, wine, and other trade goods from fertile crescent came into Babylon to make them wealthy. Hammurabi one day took over of all Mesopotamia. An archaeologist discovered a 6 foot pillar with a picture of Hammurabi and 200 of his laws carved in cuneiform.…
The “highway of the king” is a trading system this means that there were merchants that came through Babylon and the stayed there. Trade was paid for with money most likely in the form of gold and silver. Law one hundred twenty-two; “If any one give another silver, gold or anything else to keep, he shall show everything to some witness draw up a contract, and then hand it over for safekeeping.” Hammurabi made laws that protected people when a trade was made so that there could be no falsely…
Babylon's blazing rise to power, like a rocket soaring high into the sky, was launched by its brilliant king, Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.). Bold and visionary, he conquered cities from the Nineveh region to the Persian Gulf, and then devised a code of laws to unify and rule the empire he created. The Babylonians believed that the gods bestowed justice and that kings were the gods' earthly agents. An inscription on a majestic, eight-foot-tall, black basalt stele (stone slab) that details Hammurabi's decrees makes this clear.…
Babylon was a “civilization” which dates back to the eighteenth century B.C.E, which is located from the Euphrates River into Iraq. Babylon was one of the most famous developments in Mesopotamia; that included many cities. Over time Babylon has became more successful through skills, like their writing, cuneiform or their development of laws. Throughout time Babylon has improved in justice, social hierarchy, but has failed to succeed in the roles of women played in everyday life. Justice was a key factor in the Babylonian Empire.…
The Achaemenid Empire, extending from Thrace to India, is considered the first world empire. Boasting many achievements like a postal system, standardized money, and a highway, their successes are largely due to their leaders, Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great. Unlike many other rulers in his time, Cyrus held respect for human rights, different cultures and religions, and diversity in his people while Darius exhibited talent for organization and leadership. The Median, Lydian, Babylonian, and Egyptian empires ruled the east during 559 B.C. Cyrus II or “the Great” was the son of Kambujiya I and Princess Mandana, daughter of Astyages the King of Media.…
The sanctuary was the most sacred part. It was a home for the god, Amun, and it was where his statue was kept. Not only was the room itself significant, but its location had meaning as well. The sanctuary of a temple was to be built on the highest ground so as to represent earth, or order, emerging from water, or chaos, at the time of creation. Courtyards were open to the sky in order to allow for worship of the sun, Amun-re.…
“I blink and blink, until I realize there's no question of getting accustomed to this light, because there is no light” (Sutcliffe 38). In The Wall, Joshua thinks this to himself while crossing through the underground tunnel under the wall. The tunnel is a metaphor for the easy solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, peace. Although most people cannot see this solution, and they will never be able to become accustomed to it. This solution will also probably never be seen or acknowledged by anyone, just like the tunnel.…
1. This week we are comparing and contrasting two pyramids. The first of the two pyramids is the Step Pyramid in the funerary complex of Djoser. The Step Pyramid is dated to 2630 to 2575 B.C.E. It is roughly 204 feet tall and made out limestone.…
There once was a religious belief named The Heaven’s Gate that centered its teaching in extraterrestrial being. It was founded in 1974 by a man named Marshall Applewhite and a woman named Bonnie Nettles. The Heaven’s gate claimed to be similar to Christianity and believe in the existence of God and Satan, but portray them as developed extraterrestrial being or evil space aliens. This alien cult believed that the Earth is in the process of "recycle" and the only way to survive was getting to heaven by ending their lives, which is exactly what the followers did. This religious belief is an example of a Christian heresy, similar to Raelism.…
The garden was built by Nebuchadnezzar II, the grandson of the King of the famous code of Hammurabi, circa 600 BC as a gift for his wife who longs for his home, Amyitis. Amytis missed trees and plants whose in Persia, while in the other it is said that the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II named Amuhia and he comes from the archipelago. The Park is estimated to be destroyed around 2 centuries BCE. Then this hanging garden in dokumentasikan by historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Greece…
Upon either sides of this tall, great wall were set with stone-wooden platforms of scaffolding, built along its entire length. Upon and around these devices are many thousands of labourers and workers of many races: great sculpers from Dwarfdoms, expert masons and stone-layers from the stone-academies Aerisdornea, and labourers and workers, men young and old, from many countless lands swarming upon the wall, building and scurring like ants. For this wall was no less than the instigation of the construction of the grand Capitol-city of Sildellond, where the Emperor Kiliothainail has commisioned after his landing upon Silnea, to construct a noble seat for his Golden Throne. The workers, working in divisons of four shifts, each long as twelve hours,…