Empire of the Sun

Approach The Soviet 60s had similar cultural processes to those in Western Europe: it was a time of intellectual protest and liberalization. While France had the Revolution of 1968, the Soviet intellectual started liberty rights movement and in the 1970s, they were ostracized as dissidents. Strikingly, Bakhtin’s culture theory has similarities with French philosophical systems of the same time. First, his approach reminds of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and Guattari’s “Chaosmosis.”…

The Aztec Empire, with its capital of Tenochtitlan and its population of approximately 200,000, was constructed on an island on the western side of Lake Tetzcoco. The people of the empire were, however, both diverse and widespread throughout the region, with a collection of more than 300 city-states and perhaps more than 30 provinces, in the valley of Mexica by the 14th century, many of whom came from a variety of sociocultural backgrounds. While most, if not all, Aztecs likely spoke the Nahuatl…

If you are lazy, then hope that you are not in the Incan Empire! The Inca would hang, stone, and push people off of cliffs for being lazy. To the Inca, being lazy was a crime similar to treason. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca are all similar and different in a few ways. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all have some kind of Noble class in their social structure. Additionally, the Maya, Inca and Aztec were all dominated by spanish conquistadors. The Maya and Inca were ruled by monarchy. The Maya, Aztec, and…

Sara Wittbold Araoz APAH P.2 Google Classroom READ & WATCH Response: BYZANTIUM & ISLAM Response 1: Hagia Sophia / Byzantine Empire From its grand beginnings, as the “seat of Christianity” at the start of Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia has seen many faiths, as well as tragedies. After the Hagia Sophia’s first mysterious destruction, it was rebuilt by Constantine’s son, Constantinius II in 360 CE to serve as magnificent cathedral for the city. Again in 532 CE the Haiga Sophia was destroyed,…

plants and earth move around related to the position of the sun. The Inca empire, at its height, stretched over 2,000 miles. They had to adapt to the growth of their empire, so they built “well constructed roads and strong rope bridges” (Patel 9-10). Nowadays, we have roads all over the place! Also, the Incas showed the first signs of modern-day mail carrying. In most early civilizations, it took many days to get messages across the empire. But, the Incas had “an elaborate system of relay…

didn’t, because it February 16th of 2016, right now, and I’m still alive! My family and I actually stood on one of the main pyramids at Chiza Nizta on the 21st of December 2012. The Mayan Empire is VERY old! Believing to have been established in the year 2000 BC, and lasting until 200-900 AD, the Mayan Empire is one of the oldest places you can still go to visit today! Since it is so old, they had quite a few…

the Inca Empire. Machu Picchu are assembled around AD 1400 but it became famous for tourist in 1911 because of the American historian Hiram Bingham. In this history, Machu Picchu was asserted a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. It has been considered culturally important place since Spanish conquered the Incas. The classical Inca style with dry-stone are major building style, and the buildings are intihuatana(ritual stone,) the Temple of the Sun,…

The Aztecs were well known for their ability and powerful dominance during their quest, their beliefs were always centered on their religion and gods. This was one of the most powerful kingdoms at the time. During the pre- conquest Aztecs were an empire that was notorious because of its prosperous agricultural. Their arts, education, spiritual traditions and rituals also characterized Aztec’s and were the reason they survive building a strong foundation for their future leaders. The Aztecs…

Nefertiti, and three daughters. I will also be discussing “Egypt’s Golden Empire: The Warrior Pharaohs”. In the Old Kingdom, the front and back carvings on the Palette of King Narmer were of big focus. Dated circa 3000-2920 BCE, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, in the Predynastic era, this work was a symbolic makeup palette. This pigment applied to one’s face was necessary for all people because the minerals acted as a buffer to the sun for one’s skin. King Narmer is shown large scaled due to his…

fall of the Roman empire: What led the Roman Empire to fall is the installation of the barbarian kingdoms; the Germans arrive gradually in the West where they create barbarian kingdoms. Poorly defended by poorly paid and jealous of the benefits attributed to the barbarians soldiers, Rome was shacked by the Gorths in 410 and then twice more in 455 and 472. In 476, Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was overthrown and this event marks the end of the Western Roman Empire. The…