Medes

in the interactive oral: Jason and the Argonauts, I found out that Hera convinces Aphrodite to send her son, Cupid, to a love arrow at Medea for she was a skilled sorceress capable of helping Jason obtain the Golden fleece. Under the Cupid’s spell, Mede helps Jason achieve his goal, even if it was against her will. While, Medea did all of Jason’s dirty work, she let him take the credit. And, when Jason breaks his oath, leaves Medea thirsty…

The scale of the invasion can also be measured by the amount of subjects they brought to war from areas under their control such as Egyptian and Phoenician engineers, Medes, Babylonians and other regions in which the Achaemenids ruled over, thus showing extent in which they were willing to go in their attempts to eradicate the poisonous threat in which they viewed the…

2200 BCE China’s Xia Dynasty rises Minoan society rise 2000 BCE Indo Europeans began to build settlements in the Italian peninsula A sophisticated society of Minoans arose from the island of Crete 1800 BCE Bronze metallurgy brought by the Etruscans in Rome 1766 BCE Xia Dynasty decline China’s Shang Dynasty rises 1628 BCE Volcanic eruption on the island of Thera destroyed almost everything 1600 BCE Mycenaean society rises Mycenaeans began trade with Minoans and learned about…

The Cyrus Cylinder, also known as the first human rights declaration, was founded in 539 B.C.E. It is a barrel-shaped baked clay cylinder, which was inscribed in Babylonian Cuneiform. Babylonian Cuneiform is also known as wedge-shaped writing. The text that is written on the Cyrus Cylinder is known to be a declaration about the 539 B.C. Iran and Iraq War. The cylinder is named after the great Cyrus of Persia. In 1879, the cylinder was excavated by archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam. The Cyrus…

The purpose of an artist is to draw a reaction from himself or the world around him. Whether this reaction is as small as a curious glance, whether it is positive or negative, whether it affects the world or an individual -- who could even be the artist himself -- in the end, something has changed in the universe. This is why art that changes nothing could be considered useless. If a painting on a wall is never noticed, it is invisible. The change induced by art could be internal or external.…

Walter White's story in Breaking Bad illustrates Machiavelli’s idea of Virtù. Virtù is defined as drive, talent, or ability directed toward the achievement of certain goals. When his story began, Walter began cooking meth and distributing it to make sure that his family would be well off after his death. However, as his story continued, he becomes power-hungry and lost everyone that he had tried to support. His quest for power changed his original glory from righteousness to selfishness.…

America had 30 states in the union. The Pequod was named after an American Indian Tribe that was located in Massachusetts. “PEQUOD, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes” (Melville). The boat is named after the tribe because it is an illusion to destruction.…

as far as athens, egypt & libya. The origin of the Persians people trace to the Ancient Iranian people, who were part of the ancient indo Iranians. The origin of the empire people can be show the the leadership they consisted. A people called the Medes controlled the land that connects east and west asia. Small persian kingdoms were in this land.Around 550 b.c Cyrus the Great, a Persian king, took control of these lands from the Medes.Then formed a gov’t & chose both median and persian nobles…

Throughout First and Second Samuel, as well as First and Second Kings, the fall of the people of Israel is consistently foreshadowed. In the seventeenth chapter of Second Kings, the anticipated collapse of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) is described. The religious reasons that are given for the fall of the Northern Kingdom can all be founded on the Israelites’ disobedience of Yahweh. The people had “sinned against the Lord their God” by “[worshipping] other gods and [walking] in the customs of…

The first major empire in Southwest Asia was the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE). They were the successor to the old and middle Assyrian States of the Second millennium. The Neo-Assyrian State revealed the raw military side of imperial rule which was constant and harsh warfare, brutal exploitation of, and an ideology that glorified imperial masters and justified the subjugation and harsh treatment of subjects. Neo-Assyrian rulers had ambitions beyond governing their own people they also wanted…