From the very beginnings of our existence, humans have created and sung songs. Music is used for entertainment, for celebration, for mood setting, even to go to sleep. The standards for music have changed as well, especially with the onset of technology like auto-tune. Each of the 5 songs appealed to me in one way or another. I’ll admit, I am a bit arrogant sometimes, and simply annoying other times. At home, I’ll learn extra if I’m interested in a topic, but otherwise I slack off. Following my…
Mesopotamia “Land of rivers” is the name of the Euphrates- Tigris river system. The Mesopotamian religion was the first recorded religion. Their religion was Polytheistic and Enlil, the god of air, was believed to be the most powerful god. For religious worship, Mesopotamians sang and danced in their homes and market places to songs originally written for the gods. A cultural expression and social activity ancient Mesopotamians participated in was monthly rituals and festivals where they…
The Qin dynasty was a short one, lasting between 221 and 206 BCE. This was during the Classical Era, the organization and reorganization of human societies. In this time period, there was the development religions, empires, and transregional trade routes. The first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, used harsh methods to greatly transform the Chinese government, including emphasizing legalistic values, killing all those who challenged him, and relying on his wealth and a strong military to get whatever he…
developed throughout the warring states period and into the Qin Dynasty, the manner in which each states’ “kings” made their decisions also evolved. The system of traveling advisors itself to multiple kings falling due to the fierce weight of influence each advisor had on their respective kings. While the fall of states under Qin power may be credited to weak militaries or poor leadership, the key players especially when Qin Dynasty began, the ones with the most influence in high stake…
Because of the wall's association with the First Emperor's supposed tyranny, the Chinese dynasties after Qin usually avoided referring to their own additions to the wall by the name "Long Wall".[14] Instead, various terms were used in medieval records, including "frontier(s)" (塞, sāi),[15] "rampart(s)" (垣, yuán),[15] "barrier(s)" (障, zhàng),[15]…
In Chinese five thousand years of history and civilization, Song dynasty is one of the hugest ships floating on this great river of history. Along with those emperors, people in song dynasty have created many significant innovations and inventions. During that 300 hundred years ruling, the ingenuity of Song people provided some of the most significant technological and conceptual advances in many fields such as arts, polymaths, engineering, and agriculture to Chinese culture and pushed human…
Charles V was the Holy Roman Empire from 1526 until his death in 1558. He was born in Country of Flanders on February 24, 1500. His father was Philip I also know as Philip The Handsome was the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. His mother was Joanna of Castile also know as the Mad. After Charles father died in 1506 he was sent to go live with his aunt Margaret of Austria. When Charles turned 15 in 1515 he became duke of Burgundy and gained rule over the Netherlands. On…
Bella Isles Ap Euro Mr. Ervin 8 February 2016 Unit 7 Short Answer One impact of the Sepoy Rebellion was that British control over India became much more direct and formalized. Indian administration passed from the British East India Company to the British crown, making Queen Victoria the “Empress of India”. Indian princes signed agreements that ensured their lands as long as they accepted British rule. India’s northwestern frontier against Russia was fortified and educational, judicial, and…
5.1. Architecture: It had four bases and stood over 45 m high and measured 189 x 156 m across. The elliptical arena itself measured 87.5 m by 54.8 m.(3) The theatre was stunning even from the outside with huge open arcades on each of the first three floors presenting statue-filled arches. There were no less than 80 entrances, 72 of these were numbered and tickets were sold for each. (3) Two entrances were used for the gladiators. One for the dead bodies and one which victors and those allowed…
would not cease once civilians got selected as government officers. Within the government agencies, there were a strict hierarchical system that again built based on Manchu’s nobility. One of the most core agency that created by Manchu in the Qing dynasty that mainly responsible for the colonial and peripheral rule was the Li Fanyuan. The Li Fanyuan had set different local offices in Qing’s peripheral areas like Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang and selected elite Bannermen from all three divisions…