Essays on Ancient Civilizations

Music surrounds our everyday lives sometimes without even being noticed or appreciated. You get into your car in the morning and the radio will turn on. Step into an elevator and there will be background music. It is a component of our lives and for...

Text Questions Mythology Cassandra Lambert What purposes did myths serve to ancient peoples? Myths were used to tell stories and pass on tales from ancestors. They were also used to answer questions nobody knew the answer to. How do creation myths differ from nature myths?...

Paleolithic age was the era about 2. 6 million years ago. Paleolithic people were hunters. They were migrants who lived in clans and depended on chasing, angling and assembling wild organic products. They chased creatures like buffalo, mammoths, bears, and deer. The meat was a...

In the patriarchal society of Ancient Greece, women were seen as inferior to their male counterparts. As a consequence of this, women were far less represented in Ancient Greek society by a large degree, being unable to obtain any form of citizenship in their city-state...

Babylon was a minor city-state in the center of Mesopotamia for a century Mesopotamia is a region located in southwest Asia located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The word “Mesopotamia” is formed from the words meso, meaning between or in the middle, and potamos,...

Throughout the history many civilizations believed in a God or Gods and they also believed in an afterlife concept whether it is a reward or a punishment for what they did in their lives. Death is the absolute truth about people lives whether we like...

Everyone knows about the Aztecs, right? Well how much do you know about them? The Aztecs, after traveling for many months finally found the spot where they were supposed to build their city in the middle of a lake. On that lake they grew extremely...

Ancient Mesopotamia, as scholars consider, is the cradle of civilizations. The huge impact of Mesopotamian civilizations made on the development of mankind and the great path of continuous evolution is undeniable. The practice of many traditions we have today was first established by the first...

In both ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia, we can find many similarities and differences between their cultures. The laws of the two varied quite a bit, their literature was relatively similar, and the way women were viewed in their respective societies drastically contrast one another....

The transition period from classical to Hellenistic age is a time full of changes for Greek citizens. From being citizens of a relatively small community, in which they could participate and engage actively to a cosmopolitan environment, following the conquest of the Alexander the Great....

Introduction According to the dictionary Petit Robert (1991), a civilization, comparable to advancement, evolution, progress, refers first of all to the whole of the characters common to large corporations more advanced, to all acquisitions of human societies in opposition to the terms of nature or...

The ancient Greeks, like many ancient cultures, believed in multiple gods. The Gods had supernatural powers and strengths. Myths about these Gods helped explain things about Greek life, These myths were important because they explained why the Greeks did things in a certain way and...

The word polis comes from the Ancient Greek word πόλις or pólis meaning “city-state” or “fortified town.” It is most commonly used to refer to city-states in ancient Greece such as Classical Athens, though it can also mean a body of citizens. These poleis were...

In ancient Greek Society women were not regarded as equals with men, they were viewed as inferior and incapable of doing what a man could. They had to act submissive and be under a man’s control and oftentimes could not do or speak on their...

When we as Westerners think of antiquity’s greatest civilizations, surely classical Greece comes to mind. Many aspects of ancient Greek culture survive today in various facets of our modern society: democracy, drama and western philosophy, just some of the first few that come to mind....

In 7th century AD, Hindu-Buddhist kingdom Sriwijaya rose in Sumatra as the first Indonesian commercial sea power capable to control most of the trade in Southeast Asia. this was because they were located in the Strait of Melaka. The Mataram and Sailendra dynasty was in...

The topic of travel is as multifaceted and controversial today as it was in the ancient andmedieval worlds. The characters and stories encountered in the Culture and Expression readings embody this fact, revealing the spectrum of feelings and values associated with various aspects of crossing...

The antiquated Egyptian and old Greek developments are two of the most seasoned known human advancements in history. The Egyptian human progress, situated in the eastern piece of North Africa, is accepted to have begun around 3150 BC and proceeded till the end of the...

Today you will be learning about Dominoes in Ancient China. Dominoes are simple enough to describe. They are two-sided tiles with numbers represented by dots on each side. Although they appear deceptively simple, domino tiles can form the basis for some incredibly complex games. It’s...

When the term “great civilisation” comes up, the first that come to mind are the Romans, the Romans, The Egyptians and the Mayans, but what determines greatness, what makes a civilisation live on in history while others turn to dust and are lost to the...

In the ancient world, communication was minimal, resulting in contact between nations being few and far between. Because of this, each nation developed its own view of primacy, immediately shunning others and boosting themselves. The Book of Exodus and The Histories of Herodotus are two...

Ancient Sri Lanka had the potential of producing all everyday needs of people within the country. Hence Sri Lanka owns a long legacy of craft practices. According to (Senanayake, 2013) these practices passed in families from generation to generation for years and reduced with the...

“It was like the enchantments in the book of Amadis, because of high towers, rues [pyramids] and other buildings, all of masonry, which rose from the water. Some of the soldiers asked if what they saw was not a dream” (Miller, 239) A Spanish soldier,...