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    This is a decent time when to pull back and take a gander at the time of farming developments (ca. 3500 B.C.E.–ca. 1750 C.E.) The most conspicuous extensive scale incline in this period of mankind 's history was the globalization of development. The primary wave—the First Civilizations— was at that point worldwide in the first place Civilizations ended up being delicate and helpless Mesopotamian city-states were consumed into bigger domains Indus Valley, Central Asian, and Norte Chico human advancements blurred away by the second thousand years B.C.E. Egypt succumbed to remote trespassers in the primary thousand years B.C.E. the Olmecs clearly destroyed and surrendered their significant urban areas around 400 B.C.E. China divided into warring states There was no doing a reversal from the progress model of human culture. New urban-focused and state-based social orders developed to supplant the First Human…

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    Political Authority in Second-Wave Civilizations Compared to other classical Eurasian empires, the Hellenistic Era, under Alexander the Great is superior to its contemporaries because of its size, the time it took to build, its diversity and adaptation to culture, and its style of government, the reverence of its subjects, and its legacy. Robert W. Strayer’s 2013 edition of Ways of the World provides evidence that compares and contrasts this empire with other regimes of the era to support this…

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    Hellenistic Art Essay

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    From primary sources and your notes on Hellenistic art, explain the relationship between mathematics and beauty. Include in your response the following ratios, proportion, perfect vs. imperfect, mathematical harmony and optical importance. After the death of Alexander the Great, the art period changed immensely from classical to the Hellenistic period. The Hellenistic period consists of complexity, movement, emotion and focuses on conveying drama. Hellenistic art were athletes, heroic figures,…

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    you will find three passages, discuss what the context is and what major issue in Jewish history they illustrate: The passages below describe the impact of Hellenism on Jewish history and tell the story of the emergence of Christianity. The Hellenistic period began following Alexander the Great’s conquest in 334 BCE and continued culturally till almost the seventh century CE. During this period, the Jews incorporated Hellenistic thoughts with their Judaic traditions; this is made evident in the…

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    expanse, ranging from the Eastern Mediterranean region to Asia. Historians commonly refer to this era in Ancient Greece as the Hellenistic Period. The term Hellenistic is derived from the Ancient Greek root word Hellas, which was used in reference to the territory of Greece. During this period, the Greek expansion efforts and the resulting wars are observed to have had a major impact on ancient Greek Civilization. The impact that these wars and the resulting expansion had on the Ancient Greek…

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    From the Head of Bodhisattva, we can see the influence from Classical art, which is the sculpture of the Head of Alexander. The head of Alexander was created under the period that was the transition from Classical Art to Hellenistic Art, but the sculpture, the Head of Alexander, has more Classical art style than. In classical style, the sculptors depict the human body in a relaxed rather than rigid posture. They improved on the rigidity and brought a more natural sense of movement and…

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    These laws that Cyrus had provided for them to follow are laws that are very similar to what we have nowadays. Such as no stealing, not committing adultery, and no false witnessing. But even then, they couldn’t settle for a government. Therefore, taking extraordinary diverse forms and across different city states and over many centuries, political power could rest in the hands of a single individual. Monarchies and tyrants ran a lot of these cities. There was also a select few that used…

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    A pivotal transformation that distinguishes the change between the Hellenic Greece and Hellenistic Greece is the Geography and the way it shaped out the communities. During the Hellenic period, the once-independent Greek city-states, which had expanded their influence throughout much of the Mediterranean basin, were conquered and united by the Macedonians. From then on the cities states became known as the Greco-Macedonians whose goal is to conquer the Persian Empire under Alexander. The name,…

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    Hellenistic Individualism

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    The framework of the Hellenistic world can be seen during the life and reign of Alexander the Great. His role in developing the Hellenistic culture sprouts from his conquering of the Persian empire, and mixing the many cultures that were already present with Hellenic culture and ideas. This mixture of ideas moved the Hellenic’s three primary lenses of thought: humanism, idealism, and rationalism to a Hellenistic concept of three similar lenses: individualism, realism, and empiricism. This…

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    to gain God’s good favor in battle. Both men married daughters of enemy kings for strategic reasons. Such maneuvers made assimilation much easier. The wives’ knowledge of conquered cultures could count as a valuable resource during periods of unrest or tension. Therefore, if the king’s wife were Persian then the Persian people would be more receptive to the new ruler. Military might and courage strengthened the stability of ancient regimes. Clovis and Alexander proved their adaptability…

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