Bronze

The Bronze Age in the Mediterranean Grecian regions was a time for exploration and war, trade and commerce, and ingenuity. Two monumental cultures with the evident demise influenced one another through economy, architecture, and logogram. The Minoans originated on the island of Crete, and their palace and administrative center titled Knossos. The Mycenaean culture, on the other hand, flourished on the mainland of Greece, in the palaces of Pylos and Mycenae. Both cultures thrived from maritime…

youth, probably Apollo ca. 470 BCE and Standing Buddha, 15th-16th century are both sculptures of significant figures. Each figure is emblematic to a certain culture. The Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo is made of bronze, cast and incised. The Standing Buddha is made out of cast bronze, gold, shell, and resin. The emphasis of the muscularity of the Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo shows how important the body is to the the Greeks. The Standing Buddha gives the viewer a visual depiction…

Have you ever thought about how Europe became such a large empire? Jared Diamond, a UCLA professor, explains on the TV program Guns, Germs, and Steel, that it is due to geographic luck. Geographic luck is the term used to describe the phenomenon of the fact that people in some areas are just luckier than others. For instance, the Fertile Crescent got nutritious wheat and barley while Papua New Guinea got sago palm. However, Professor Diamond has the right idea. Geographic luck shaped the path to…

had made attempts at restoring the frescoes in the 1930s, and employed much more crude methods in an attempt to repair some damage. In places where paint and plaster was beginning to crack, peel, and threaten to fall from the ceiling, they utilized bronze pins, varnish, and glue, which was sticky and had quickly become opaque since the time it had been applied. This kind of damage was irreversible to the fescoes and could only be painted over carefully by skilled artists. Each renaissance…

The Mycenaean people were named after the city of Mycenae which was the powerful city state at the time. This civilization appeared during the late Bronze Age, were it started on the mainland under Cretan influence. Established cities of Pylos, Thebes, Athens, and Tiryns. They were seafaring people which meant they lived near the sea. One thing that they benefited to Greece was their art and culture. But what stood out the most, was their art of naturally forming flowing designs on pottery,…

called the warring stats period Qin Shi Huang unified the provinces. He would order killings of scholars whose ideas he opposed. When they were being dug up they found over 40 thousand weapons. Such as battle axes, cross bows, arrowheads and bronze swords. The weapons were preserved very well. They had been buried for over 3000 years and they all preserved very well. They had chrome plating that helped preserve them. The paint on them also preserve well The emperor’s tomb is twenty…

consists of approximately fifteen hundred years beginning with the Bronze Age and ending in A.D. 337, which is the year Constantine passes away. There are ten chapters starting with Gods and Goddesses progressing all the way to the women of Rome and Late Republic. Throughout this novel, it is evident that women were thought of as property and were not important to society in these time periods like the males were. In the Bronze and Dark Ages, and the archaic period, women were treated in a…

1) Describe Minoan society? Where were they located? When did Minoan society flourish? Who did Minoan society influence? Minoan society belonged to the Aegean Bronze age. It flourished from 3650 to 1400 BCE. It was located on the island of Crete. Minoan word is derived from the word King Minos. Minoan society was a very influential one and it had a varied culture. Its artists and traders had an influence throughout the Cyclades. It influenced Egypt’s old kingdom, Cyprus, Canaan, Levantine…

Maffeo Barberini was born on April 5, in Florence. His father, Antonio Barberini, was a famous and very rich nobleman in Florence, but he died when Maffeo was only three years old. He moved to Rome with his mother, Camilla Barbadoro, when he was six years old. While he was a young, he lived with his uncle, Francesco Barberini, who was prothonotary Apostolic at that time, and he had a very great influence to the young Maffeo. Maffeo Barberini was educated at the “Collegio Romano” under the…

• The Yangshao culture was first excavated in 1921, it lasted to c. 2700B.C.E. - Farmers grew millet, wheat, and rice, and domesticated pigs, dogs, goats and perhaps horses. - They lived mostly in river valleys, and villages were often surrounded by walls for protection. • Soon larger political units were created and the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties came to be. - The Traditional chronological dating suggests that one succeeded another. - Capitals were frequently shifted…