Polytheism

#1. The name of the statue is The Coatlicue statue. It is eight feet and nine inches tall. The Coatlicue statue is located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. It is thought to be created between 1300 and 1500 in Tenochtitlan, Mexico, it was discovered on 13 August 1790, in the front of the main plaza in Mexico City, but was reburied because of its terrifying depictions. It is made out of andesite, a volcanic type of rock from a specific area. #2. At first glance, a serpent…

The Great Hymn to Aten was created by Egyptian king Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt from 1369 BCE to 1353 BCE, and it provided Egypt with an outlook at monotheism which means worshipping one god, Aten, instead of the past which focused more on polytheism which focused on the worship of many different gods. The purpose of the Great Hymn was to praise and worship the sun god Aten for being the creator by creating the world and providing humans with special needs like food and water. Egyptians…

Rome—one of history's greatest civilizations; a boundless empire that controlled the areas from Britannia to Asia Minor. Along with its colossal size, the Roman Empire housed an umpteen amount of perspicacious inventors and architects. Rome, Italy holds numerous of the world's greatest architectural creations and monuments, like the Pantheon, for instance. The Pantheon was constructed by Marcus Agrippa in 25 BCE, but a fire burned the building down in 80CE; Domitian reconstructed the edifice,…

Xenophanes did not believe that knowledge about the nature of the gods was entirely possible. My inference came from a few different aspects of his writing and ideology. First of course, being his epistemology. Xenophanes possessed enough self-awareness and awareness of the limits of knowledge, to recognize things such as, “But mortals suppose that gods are born,wear their own clothes and have a voice and body.”(frag. 14) and “Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black;Thracians…

In all of the societies we have discussed thus far there seem to be a lot of similarities to their development which shows that even the societies that develop continents away aren’t really so different. The first similarity I see in most civilizations is where they choose to build their settlements. Most ancient civilizations with the exception of the Persians built their settlements around waterways or more specifically rivers. The fertile lowlands around these rivers gave settlers access to…

In early Mesopotamia and Egypt, religion played a huge part in the people’s life. In Mesopotamia, the city-states were ruled by religion and in Egypt, the empire was dictated by what the gods said and wanted them to do. Both Ancient Civilizations were built on the principles of religion. The people of Mesopotamia and Egypt believed in multiple gods and both perceived them as human like, or with animalistic features. While Mesopotamians feared their gods and believed that their afterlife was…

Shullat, was a divine herald of storms and bad weather, so a large storm which may have wreaked havoc must have been Shullat’s anger or order to punish humans. This structure of polytheism is seen for long periods of times and even similarly with the Greek gods and how there are relations which each and every god that somehow interconnects with one another. An interesting correlation between the poem of Gilgamesh and the Bible is…

1. Achaemenid the Great Persian Empire a. Draw a map of the Empire (this can be a dropped image from a set of maps or other images you find online). Include the dates of dominance and existence and eventual fall. 550 B.C. – 330 B.C. b. What is the author’s thesis of the chapter? What is her argument for including this Empire in her book? The author tried to persuade the reader that the fate of an empire is closely related to if it’s tolerant to its diversity race. She argued, that why…

CCOT Essay: Social and Economic Transformations During the years of 1492-1750, the Atlantic Ocean was first dormant before Christopher Columbus sailed there in the 15th century C.E. Afterwards, different types of transformations will be occurring for Africa, Western Europe, and the Americas. Including cash crops, needing of slaves for others labor, and the mixing of different cultures occurring at once. The main ones that’ll be mentioned for this essay on transformation is social which is the…

1) A brief history of the religion Islam is one of the growing religion in the US. The religion appears with its prophet Muhammad in the seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula. Islam is practiced as a monotheistic religion that recognizes only one God (Allah). In a century, it spreads over a part of Asia, North Africa and even Southern Europe. The belief in the oneness of God was of paramount importance and everything flowed from it. The verses of the Qur 'an strongly emphasize the oneness of…