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    The Hellenistic Kingdom

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    the cultural differences they faced would many times shape the success of the new Kingdoms arising to become either prosperous or fading. When kings expanded their empire they were exposed to those of different cultures and religion, which would sometimes cause rift between the two. A main factors involving success in expanding empire had a lot to do with military power and stability in the Kingdom. Although this was a important factor, some rulers only did things their way and this affected…

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    Task 2- Multicultural Empires Part A. A1 (Rome). There are many geographical factors that impacted the development of Rome but the one geographical factor that had a significant impact on the development of Rome was the Tiber River. Just like the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, the Roman Republic, and later empire, developed and flourished alongside a river. The Tiber river allowed the people of Rome to grow crops of wheat and barley that they not only used for…

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    Hugo Winckler, Peter Jensen, Felix Peiser, Heinrich Zimmern, Alfred Jeremias and Ferdinand Bork that many of the stories from the Old Testament specifically the Book of Genesis originated from the religion, mythology and history of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians who lived in the Mesopotamia Valley from 5500BC to 220AD. Specifically, it was the Assyrians and the Babylonians who used their political and cultural influences to control a young nation of Israelites by making…

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    West Africa Research Paper

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    the Western Sahara. They soon came into conflict with Ghana. The details of the conflict are hazy. Some Arab sources claim that Koumbi Saleh, Ghana’s capital, was attacked. But archaeological evidence does not support this. In any case, the Ghana Empire managed to fight off the Almoravids, who went into decline in the next century. In the twelfth century, Ghana began including more Muslims in its government. These included diplomats and the master of the treasury. By the end of the 1100s, all…

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    The Neo-Babylonian Empire Ancient cultures have great amounts of history in them. All cultures eventually have a rise and fall. The Neo-Babylonian Empire was one of these ancient cultures that rose and fell. God is in control of kings and kingdoms and He has a master plan that will be fulfilled. Babylon was built on the plane of Shinar. It was built in the same plane that the tower of Babel was built. This is ironic because the meaning of word Babel and the word Babylon are the same. They both…

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    This was a common happening in his era. He was the sixth and most famous king of the empire. Despite his young age, he was a very successful leader. Hammurabi took part in traditional activities of a king, such as fighting wars and improving maintenance of the infrastructure of Babylon. He set out to do three things while holding the position…

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    Introduction: In this essay we are aiming to compare and contrast between two different sculptures, both sculptures nearly belong to the same era, but two different civilizations, one from the Egyptian ancient history and the other one is from the Neo-Sumerian Civilization, what is known as Iraq in modern days. The importance of this comparison is because these two civilizations were among the greatest civilizations in the ancient world, therefore we are very interested to analyze their art…

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    piece of Hellenistic world. Contrasting Empires Romans and Chinese the Romans and the Chinese realms had nearly no coordinate contact however fascinating similitudes. Both prospered ca. 200 B.C.E.–200 C.E. were of comparative size (around 1.5 million square miles), both had 50 million to 60 million individuals between them, and they controlled about half the total populace intriguing minor departure from royal subject. Rome grew from a city-state to an Empire, it began as a little immaterial…

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    Memi And Sabu Analysis

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    The Neo-Sumerian sculpture shows calm and serenity, a departure from the works during its preceding Akkadian Empire (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017). Gudea was the “prince of the independent kingdom of Lagash in the late 3rd millennium, is known for his piety and prolific building of temples” (Louvre, n.d.). This explains why, in contrast to Memi and…

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    The Sealand Dynasty

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    control of Babylonia. The Sealand Dynasty of 1732 to 1460BC coexisted at the same time along with the First Babylonian Dynasty. This dynasty was a separate dynasty in the far southern part of what was Sumer known as Sealand. It was ruled by native Akkadians who claim to be descendants of the First Dynasty of Isin. After the fall of Babylonia the Sealand Dynasty became a territory of the Kassite Dynasty. Because of its loss of the authority within itself, Babylonia became weakened both…

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