Question 3: African Art The African art has several similarities with European art. For instance, due to the influence of Islam and Christianity, most of their art have religious or political purposes. However, wood is the material of their choice.…
African Empire The African Empire created many achievements throughout the empire. They achieved cultural, economic, and political societies. Culture changed the way people lived and how they act. The increase of trade improved the economy very well.…
Ancient Africa has had many achievements over the years and these are what made Africa strong and powerful. From gaining wealth to upgrading their army, and making more farms, these all helped to make Africa stronger and more powerful. And here are the achievements of Africa ……….. One of Africa's achievements is that Africa had many trade routes going through it so that meant more people would buy their goods and help them to gain wealth. For example, in document 8 there were trade routes connecting Kilwa, Zimbabwe, Sofala, Mombasa, Malindi, Mogadishu, Aksum, Lalibela, Zelia, Jidda, Aden, Calicut, and Muscat.…
Chapter 3 Summary Chapter three discusses the art found in Egypt. It starts off with the predynastic and early dynastic periods. In the predynastic era, Egypt was geographically distributed into an upper and lower Egypt. The era also began with a Pharaonic monarchy deeming King Narmer as the ruler. During this time Egyptian artists began making narrative reliefs and paintings, including one of the earliest documented historical artwork, the Narmer palette.…
The African kingdoms were advanced civilizations before the arrival of Europeans. An advanced civilization is defined in Document 2 as having “wealth based on trade … income derived from taxes, social organization that ensured justice and efficient political control … and a foreign policy that led to the peace and cooperation with other people.” African civilizations had these qualities which allowed them to maintain powerful kingdoms before Europeans arrived in their countries. Many African kingdoms were wealthy and most, mainly in West Africa, gained their money through trade and taxes.…
The Sub-Saharan long distance commodity and slave trade as well as the syncretic interweaving of Islamic culture and traditional African culture accounts for Africa’s major influence as a superpower from the first until fifteenth centuries. Traders from all over the world were drawn to Africa’s riches in gold, ivory, and human beings. The fact that Africa was rich in resources posed influence in itself. Considering that a great number of the visiting traders were Muslims and they begin to intermarry and form relationships with the West African people – economic and political alliances were formed and the adaptation of Islam was widespread.…
To start, the advances of ancient African culture are shown through their successful trade routes. As document 1 shows, the location of early African empires was essential to their…
The olden Egyptians believed in a cosmos order and assumed that the entire natural existing had once been established when the world was created by Ptah/ God. And so god rested after all creations had been made with all divine words. There is an Egyptian scholar, John Wilson has rephrase the word divine by stated Ptah had made a system into which all elements should be in appropriate order while being created. [1]Page 7-8. The association of divine powers with animals was understandable for the ancient Egyptians.…
It can be stated that most of the greatest examples of Paleolithic art can be found in the cave systems located in France. In particular, the Chauvet and Lascaux Caves provide some of the oldest and most preserved cave paintings and engravings to date. The two caves have been discovered relatively recently, each happened upon by chance just over the past century. Both caves also have a diverse depiction of animals, as well as the techniques and materials used in order to portray them. After their discover, many dangers have arisen for the integrity of the artwork leading to the demand for documentation and replication of the cave artwork.…
While the northern and southern regions are scattered with parched desert territories, high mountains occupy and the east and rivers such as the Niger, the Congo, and the Nile supply agricultural means to the populations. Despite there being over 2,000 distinct groups amongst Africa, many share the same core beliefs and practices. Ancestors play a key role in their society, as well as the nature deities they worship. Africa is big on tradition, and even some form of fortune-telling events. Due to the diversity of the continent, it is not odd for the diversity to be expressed in their artworks as well.…
The United States and various European countries met in 1884-1885 at the Berlin Conference to regulate European colonization of Africa. At this point in history, imperialism was occurring, where a country would increase it’s power by gaining control of another country. European imperialists were deciding the fate of Africa. The Scramble for Africa was three decades after the Berlin conference, where European powers began to colonize areas in Africa. Not all natives were pleased by the Europeans occupying their country.…
These are the ways in which African and European people in music, and art are…
In the geographic point of view, Egypt is ideal place for developing human civilization as it is close to the Nile River and surrounding by dessert. For example, a trading shop should open in a location which is full of the target customer in a business point of view. As the technology at the ancient time is poor and not convenient, therefore, most civilizations were developed from a location which is near to the sea such as “Yellow River” in China and protected by the natural environment like dessert. According to the Herodotus, the father of History, Egypt is the gift of the Nile. The Nile river provide food such as fish to the Egyptian, the water for the irrigation, convenient transportation as there was no horse in Egypt before 18th century…
The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history. It is usually held to have begun around 3000 BC, when the lower Nile Valley became unified under a single ruler. By this date the only other people in the world to have a literate, urban civilization were the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization of Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest in world history.…
Art tells stories of the culture and through it, we are able to gain a different perspective. By looking at what our culture refers to as art, we can see differences in our perspectives compared to other…