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Japanese Art has played and influential role in western art. The influence of Japanese art made created a term, Japonism, this term specifically refers to Japanese influence on European art and culture. One of the most remarkable traditions in Japanese art is Ukiyo-e of the Edo period. As the ‘jewel’ of the Japanese printing art, it uses the most exquisite paper, the finest colors and elaborate technique. Ukiyo-e not only carved a deep influence in Japanese art, and also in western art history.…

Mill’s On Liberty and Marx’s The Communist Manifesto are both political works about how they believe the government should be run in which they both believe that the people should not be oppressed by the government or other people. However, both differ in their opinions of what type of form a government should be; Mill believes that the government should take on the form of liberalism where it plays a limited role on society that emphasizes on individual freedom and freedom from tyranny of the…

wages, remaining higher in France, than in either Germany or England. This resulted in much less investment in industry in France than in either of those two countries. France also had less coal and iron, and a government that protected the rights of artisans and guild more. The result of these combined factors was that France simply industrialized much more slowly than either Germany or England. The Agricultural Revolution, that followed the industrial one, further reduced the need for…

French scholar and art critic Souren Melikian criticizes the concept of an all-encompassing notion of Islamic art, stating that a European equivalent wouldn’t exist in both the museum and academia (Melikian, 2004). Indeed it would be frowned upon to be a specialist in “Western art” ranging from Greek antiquity to Futurism, yet this case for an “Islamic art” specialist. It is perfectly acceptable to demand from a scholar in “Islamic art” to know about early Islamic Abbasid architecture, and late…

The status of the slave predetermined the conditions of slave life. During colonial times slaves and indentured slaves had more freedom than African American slaves later in history. But, even those types of slaves received the lowest type of living conditions and treatment. Slaves were condemned to disadvantages of the law. Slaves could not participate in wage earning trade or labor they were basically denied rights to their own property. The doctrine of authoritarianism guided much of the…

endogamous group constitutes a jati, which is itself organized by varna, or shades of color. The four main varnas are the Brahmin, or priestly caste; the Kshatriya, or warrior and royal caste; the Vaishyas, or trading caste; nad the, or Shudra, or Artisan caste. 7. What is the religious composition? 88.5% of India’s population is Hindu, 13.4% Muslim, 2.3% Christian, 2% Sikh, and 1.8% Buddhists, Jains, Others, and Unspecified. 8. How many distinct languages and dialects are spoken in…

China and Mesopotamia When you hear the words ancient china and Mesopotamia we think of two pretty similar civilizations that thrived in very similar ways around the same time period. However this is not totally the case, china and Mesopotamia have several very key differences that make them the unique civilizations that they were during their time. Both Mesopotamia and China rose and then fell but was it a similarity that caused this or something else. These similarities and differences spread…

China and India, two of the best-known countries in the world, have come a long way since their civilization days. However, how did these two compare to each other a couple of centuries ago? Some significant ways in which they were similar and different to one another include their social structures, political structures, cultural beliefs, and economic structures. China and India both began to develop along a certain river, the Chinese being the Huang He and Yangtzi Rivers and the Indian being…

and everything seemed balanced and proportional. The is perfect symmetry and proportionality in each part of the gate. Equal size in the beasts and bricks with which makes humans nowadays more impressed by the great planning and execution of the artisans in the making of this great wonder. The animals are ferocious and imposing to remind the viewers of the strength and supremacy and the gate shows the splendor and wealth of the city and how that was important to the king. The influence and image…

The City of Invention has a tumultuous history with many religious and political uprisings, both large and small. It is a place ruled by those with the greatest economic influence: the Medici banking family. In 1478, the rival Pazzi family enacted a conspiracy to take the Medici family out of power. The conspiracy failed, but the Medici family was not without their losses; an assassin slew Lorenzo’s younger brother Giuliano. In 1494 Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican friar and mage lead an uprising…