Benin Bronzes

Located in Room 12 and 12b in the British Museum, the Mycenaean Collection provides an amazing insight into the Greek Bronze Age, The Heroic Age, and Greek Mythology legends, especially the epics written by Homer. The collection features many artifacts of red and black painted pottery, bronzes from the Geometric Period, bronze figurines, and numerous artifacts that depict the Bronze age and how the Mycenaean people used Greek Mythology to decorate many objects and create incredible works of art…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…

the years, as humans we have constantly built monuments and structures with different purposes. I am going to concentrate on why monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury may have been built, and how they may have been used in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, when these monuments were often built in clusters of similar topographic location (Richards 1996, 190). I am going to explore the possibilities of their social, religious and scientific purpose. To do this, I will analyse a variety of…

Counterfactual thinking and living in imagination is another aspect of life that distracts adults and children from their realities. These individuals get captured in their thoughts of how life should be or how things should go. By adults and children carefully planning out their future’s and how certain things should happen, it causes misery when their “blueprint” does not go as planned. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay “The World and Other Places”, she introduces characters who live their lives…

Giants’ Churches in Finland By Anthony Bangert AST 105 Professor Stephen Schimmrich Giants’ Churches in Finland Introduction: Somewhere in the Ostrobothnia region, located in Western Finland, are Neolithic stone structures known as “Giants’ Churches.” These structures can be dated as far back as 2500 B.C. to a time known as the Neolithic period, or the “technological…

During the time period of 3000 to 1200 B.C. was known as the Bronze Age which had many economical advancements including the writing system, construction, and transportation. Jason Osborne study stated, “The people who have bronze are the ones who will dominate” [Video]. Major developments with technology and weapons occurred during the Bronze Age as well. First, the writing system was a huge innovation which took place during the Bronze Age that initially began with pictograms, ideograms, and…

The Shang and Zhou dynasty coexisted and originated in China, around the Yellow / Huang He river in the Bronze era ( 1,700 bce ) and went on to exist for nearly 2,000 more years. Though these Dynasties weren’t in perfect peace and harmony with one another, they shared similar values and working methods in which made the two opposing dynasties very similar. Each pillar (social, political, interaction with the environment, cultural, and economics) had it’s own way of showing through in it’s time…

The Bible narrative story I chose was Joshua 2:1-24. The Bible story is about a woman named Rahab. The Bible story begins when Joshua secretly sends two spies to go to the land of Jericho. When the two spies got to Jericho they entered a house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. However, the king of Jericho was told about the two spies from Israel that entered the house of the prostitute named Rahab. The king was angry and mad. Then, the king of Jericho sent a message to Rahab and said…

Ancient Mesopotamia is located in-between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river in Europe. With-in Mesopotamia is Babylonia which was located where the two rivers meet, with-in Babylonia is Akkad and Sumer. Akkad was located in the northern part of Babylonia while Sumer was located in the south in the channel of the river system. According to Robert A. Guisepi in his article Sumeria, Ancient Sumeria (Sumer), A History of Ancient Sumer Including its Contributions; Sumer was “broken by river…

The Mediterranean was heavily influenced by numerous waves of colonization during the Archaic Greek through Roman periods (c. 750BCE-AD400). Frequent voyages over land and sea meant that different social groups were beginning to interacting with one another. One group that ushered in an age of colonization in the Mediterranean region were the Greeks, who prior to exploration were cultivators of the land (Wilson, 2006:27). However, because their homeland was mountainous prime regions for…