Assessment task 1‚ Heinrich Schliemann‚ Georgina Hollands‚ Ancient history‚ Year 11 Heinrich Schliemann’s life was a rags-to-riches story. A poor‚ uneducated‚ and motherless boy rose through his hard work lifestyle to the highest heights of wealth. Schliemann travelled the world and learned its languages‚ married a Greek bride‚ and together they discovered the treasures of Troy and the citadel of Agamemnon‚ thereby fulfilling the dream he had chased since childhood. The reality was
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Ancient Ghana GEOGRAPHY Despite its name‚ the old Empire of Ghana is not geographically‚ ethnically‚ or in any other way‚ related to modern Ghana. It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania. Ancient Ghana in relation to modern west AfricaORIGINS Nobody is sure when Ghana came into being. But some time at the beginning of the first millennium AD‚ it is thought that a number of clans of
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DO NOT USE THIS. I JUST DID THIS SO THAT I WOULD HAVE AN ACCOUNT Chapter One Vocabulary for World History AP 1. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys- a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: site of several ancient civilizations 2. Egypt in the Nile River- an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and the area from Cairo S to the Sudan (Upper Egypt). 3. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the
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Ancient Alexandria was first and foremost a Greek city. Its history‚ however‚ is framed by two religious events that were alien to Greek intellectual traditions: Ptolemy’s creation of the cult of Serapis‚ which helped him establish rule‚ and the Christian riots that massacred the pagan philosopher Hypatia in A.D. 415. Between these two events is an unmatched record of intellectual achievement‚ elegantly chronicled by documentary makers Pollard and Reid. Among the many scientific advances they cover
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Heinrich Schliemann By Tia-Rose Shaw INTRODUCTION Heinrich Schliemann used his beliefs in a ’fiction’ book called The Iliad and The Odyssey by Home. Schliemann used these books as guides to assist with his discoveries. These books later on proved to have some historical truth in them. SOURCES Schliemann was fascinated by the story his dad had told him about the city of troy when he was a little boy. Schliemann said that this awoke the hunger in him to search for archaeological proof of the
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CHAPTER I Introduction History is the science whose business is to study events not accessible to our observations‚ and to study these events inferentially (Philippine Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 1993). History is not merely the records of past events: it is the record of what one’s age find worthy of note in another. History as a narrative (which of written‚ visual‚ oral or a combination of all these) about past events that has a meaning to a certain group of people in a given time and
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Ancient Greece Greece today is very different from what it was centuries ago. The beliefs are the same and the Gods who once ruled still live among in myths and tales told from generation to generation. Ancient Greece made many influential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy‚ art‚ architecture‚ math and science. All of the achievements that ancient Greece has made was done simultaneously while fighting two wars‚ the Peloponnesian war and the Persian war. Greek
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in the Ancient World Throughout history‚ women have been regarded as unequal and subordinate to men. In the male-dominated Western culture‚ the issue of women’s rights seems unending; even thousands of years after the first evidence of gender inequality‚ society has yet to even the playing field. Although it seems like our culture is progressive‚ we still share many qualities with the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Greece. Women were in no way equal to men during these ancient times; in
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Research Paper Ancient Egyptian Religion Ancient Egyptian civilization began in about 3150 B.C to 31 B.C. the Ancient Egyptians believed in many gods and religious ceremonies like the Procession of Min and Visiting the Dead. Ancient Egypt was a very Religious place to be in 3150-31B.C. There were many temples in Ancient Egypt. Religion was the very core of Ancient Egypt‚ anytime something bad would happen they’d pray to the god(s) for an answer. Why did Ancient Egyptians believe so much
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to get married and inherit land‚ own personal items‚ and can be given freedom. The inventions that Egyptians made were: a 365-day calendar‚ basic form of arithmetic‚ and papyrus. These are all the things about what the Ancient Egyptians were like. #2.) WHERE WHER THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS LOCATED?: The inundation is when rain and melting snow from the Ethiopian Mountain flow down into the Nile River. There were different amounts of water in every inundation. When there was not enough water
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