Ancient history

Ancient China has been one of the biggest civilizations in history. With the size, it had there were some great ideas. I will be talking about most things in ancient China so this is some background facts China’s government was a monarch. It was a monarch because it has kings and rulers. When the king of China dies his throne or positions goes to his oldest son. That royalty position gets passed down like that. One day the king could die and the next day the oldest son is the king of a big…

Daniel Young World History AP August 4,2014 When we look at how far we have come as a people, it is hard not to wonder where we started from. Two major civilizations that play an imperative role in our advancement as a people are Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Although they are two civilizations that took place during separate times, they actually have many similarities while being unique at the same time. One reason Mesopotamia was a successful civilization was because they not only knew how…

More would be a very big part of this with his Utopia and the new ideas that went into this book would show how vastly different the Renaissance way of thought was from the thinking of the old with the middle ages slowly fading away and becoming ancient history. Thomas More’s Utopia resembles the…

There are several similarities seen between Mesopotamia and Egyptian societies. Both societies actively engaged in agricultural development. Although, Mesopotamians employed irrigation methods, to sustain adequate crops, due to dry land and unpredictable flood regions. In contrast, the Nile River was predictable in its flooding, which not only irrigated the crops, but also supplied rich nutrients, a boon for the Egyptians. Another similarity is the technology of writings. The Sumerians of…

During the course of the earth’s history societies have changed from its primitive ways to more civilized ways. The world in which we live today is sculpted by the ancient civilizations that once flourished on their own land. If it was not for them who knows in what ways we would be living in now. The ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China were all different from each other, but at the same time they all shared certain characteristics. Religion was a very important aspect for…

Our past matters just as much as our future. Thousands of years ago the world was a lot different than it is now. The Neolithic Revolution was and still is a major turning point in human history for multiple reasons because of many causes and effects. During ancient civilization, there were many events that led to the Neolithic Revolution. This included climate change, the need for food, cultivation of crops, and domestication of animals. When the Ice Age ended, there was an increase of rainfall…

Medieval Egypt Debby Hao March 9, 2017 History 9 Egypt a country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East. And Egyptian pharaohs flourished for 3000 years. And Alexander the Great recaptured Egypt in 323 B.C. After that, Egypt was a part of Greece. Under the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, Egypt has become an advanced social civilization. (Smith,C.G 2016) In…

military knowledge, courage, and fairness. Some possess negative traits such as inflated egos, propensity for violence, and mistrust. Some rulers have an ability to adapt or change. Most often, a ruler in ancient history embodied a combination of these qualities. Looking at the reigns of the ancient rulers, one sees evidence of how these attributes make a good ruler, affected their reign, and, in turn, the lives of their subjects. Comparing two rulers, Alexander of Mesopotamian and Clovis,…

ago and much of evidence of her existence has been tampered with or destroyed.Kara Cooney has and includes lots of sources and notes. Cooney does a good job using primary and sundry sources when write this book about someone who almost erased form history. Kara uses all sources that she can to describe Hatshepsut such as monuments, statues, temples, chapels, obelisks, portraits, stone blocks, reliefs, and chiseled inscriptions. Kara’s book states that Hatshepsut’s body is not yet found. However…

to understand the process of evolution of civilization in humans, we have to analyze the entire process, from ancient civilization to current time, complete with the downfalls and dead-ends that occurred. We must first understand the conditions of life for ancient populations, from the undeveloped physical capabilities and limitations of man, as well as the climatic conditions of the ancient world in which they had to suffer and…