Metallurgy

For my second article, of assignment two, I chose “Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson’s Mounds” by Alan H. Goodman and George J. Armelagos, and the article from the Bradford Foundation I am comparing it to is “The Cochimi Culture on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.” I found it fascinating that both articles talked of disease and death but both came from completely opposite reasons. What I mean by that is that the artifacts show that the people of Dickson Mounds came from being farmers and…

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Technological developments in engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, and optics had produced weapons deadlier than anything known before” (McLean). Science and Technology have always played a key role in warfare and combat. The progress made in the past couple years is frightening as well as it is impressive. To truly notice the technological and scientific advances impacts the art of warfare, just look at WWI, WWII, and the post WWII era. During WWI the British created tanks that were an…

When Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, he had one goal in mind. His objective was to conquer, to conquer all the lands and make the Mongol Empire the strongest power in the world. In 1209, he won the submission of the Tanggut rulers in northwest China. In 1215, his forces conquered the Jin capital, present-day Beijing, and from there, he turned is expansions westward. In 1219, he invaded Khwarezm, a state that included much of Iran. After a large portion of Iran had fallen, he left command…

She is the goddess of wisdom, war, patriotism, good citizenship, skill Athena is known most specifically for her strategic skill in warfare. Athena is the Protector of Athens. She taught cooking, sewing and weaving to the women and agriculture and metallurgy to the men. She had many siblings, but about 5 times as many half-siblings. These half-siblings were a result of Zeus' many affairs with his Her various names are: Anemotis ("protector of the winds") , Areia ("war-like") , Damasippos…

Ohio State University Ohio State University started way back in 1870 under the name the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ohio State is one of the biggest universities in the country and boasts a total number of around 70,000 students across the campus system. The university offers over 200 degrees, 50 academic programs and 1,400 student organizations. Ohio State University is one of the Midwest’s main research institutions that food, automotive and engineering centers. The goal of…

discovered metals, fire, wool, and leather. As they discovered these highly valuable by-products and transitioned into the agricultural-herding phase, society developed into a sedentary lifestyle. During the Bronze Age just after 4000 B.C.E., metallurgy was practices to make better tools and weapons made of bronze and metal composed of copper and tin. The advances in tools would allow for easier plowing during farming and irrigation; as well as better tools to go to battle with as the years…

spectacular trading routes. Mesopotamia also known as “The Land between the Rivers”, had great access to trading routes. Some of the great things that they were able to create in order to trade to other civilizations would be both bronze and iron metallurgy. Metal work was a very important craft and trade because every single civilization needed weapons in order to survive so Mesopotamia was able to corner that market in a sense a make tons of money from this trade. Also another thing that the…

During its height in 1519, the Aztec Empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to present-day Guatemala. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan became a mighty metropolis with its advanced technological innovations. New technologies such as Chinampas or “floating gardens” for growing crops, aqueducts carrying fresh water, transportation canal systems, great causeways, large temples and buildings, and a coordinated administration allowed Tenochtitlan to flourish…

In this excerpt, I will be comparing two primarily documents namely the epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi. I have chosen these documents for the insight they give us about Mesopotamia civilazation;the world’s first civliztion.The epic of Gilgamesh was written around 2000B.C.E and perfectly gives us details about the society at that time. Code of Hammurabi was also written around 1754B.C.E. They are historically significant as they are the rigins of civilization that shaped the sociert and…