The Epic of Gilgamesh Bronze Age Mesopotamia had a distinct culture and tradition; their rich cultural heritage was passed down by some incredible fictitious and non-fictitious writings like the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’. There are many inferences that can be made about Bronze Age Mesopotamia by reading the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’. It’s clear from this document that the dichotomy between a tyrannical and a just leader existed in the society where the leaders were expected to be courageous‚ bold and adventurous
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Compare and Contrast Bronze Age Greece to Classical Greece The civilizations that lived during these two distinct periods in Greek history share many similarities in economic‚ social‚ and religious ideology. But culturally as well as politically they had very different structures and ideals. The Mycenaean’s flourished as a civilization during the Bronze Age‚ between 1600-1100B.C.E. During their control of Greece the landscape consisted of tree covered hills and valleys. The hills divided the
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Ife is a subcommunity of Yoruba community that is found in Nigeria and in the Republic of Benin. They are also found in other part around the world. It is rightly regarded as the corner stone of some of the greatest achievements in art and culture of Africa‚ combining both technical and strong aesthetic appeal to their art. Ife community was powerful and a wealthy city state in the early centuries in west Africa. It was a center of trade that was influential interms of trade. It connected extensively
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Benin once known as Dahomey (until 1975) is one of Africa’s most well structured democracies. Within it holds a slender piece of territory stretching North for about 400 miles. The river that constructs a portion of Benin’s Northern margin with Niger is the Niger River. It is lined to the east by the Nigeria northwest by Burkina Faso and west by Togo. Benin’s official capital is Porto Novo. Cotonou is not only Benin’s largest city but it’s also its largest chief port and its de facto administrative
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the African way. We had the trans-Saharan trade between the various empires that dotted the areas known as West and North Africa. The Songhai (15th-16thcentury); Kanem-Bornu (9th-19thcentury); Mali (13th-14thcentury); Ghana (circa 700-1240) and the Benin empire (16th-18th century) – all traded with and amongst themselves‚ generating revenues/incomes and maintaining their dominions and spheres of influence. They all had their own entrepreneurial ideas and mind-set; were creative‚ had sources of capital
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UNIVERSITY OF BENIN‚ BENIN CITY FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS/ MASS COMMUNICATION NAME: OBONO MONICA OKA LEVEL: 100 COURSE TITLE/CODE: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION (POL 112) ASSIGNMENT: DISCUSS THE MACPHERSON CONSTITUTION OF 1951 LECTURER: OSAZUWA JOHN DATE: JANUARY‚ 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION TO MACPHERSON CONSTITUTION OF 1951 …………….. 3 2. FEATURES OF MACPHERSON CONSTITUTION
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A "celebration of life" awaits when you participate in any of our Cultural Festival Tours‚ by which you can gain contact with the people of Nigeria that no ’ordinary’ trip can not afford. Argungu Fishing Festival at Sokoto Annual celebrations to mark beginning of the fishing season in Argungu‚ Kebbi State‚ is one of the most famous cultural festivals in Nigeria. Bare-hand fishing competitions among over 1‚000 Fishermen‚ equipped with a hand net and large gourd‚ is the main event of this cultural
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Why is the ownership of Benin Art so controversial? The ownership of Benin Art could have been so controversial for a number of reasons. Most notably I would say‚ is due to the Anthropologists seeing it as a cultural insight into the history of Benin however when people were introduced to start looking at the artefacts from also a more artistic approach‚ this‚ for the anthropologists was taking the cultural effect away from it. Some people may have felt hostile to how these artefacts were obtained
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Vodun‚ although they both have a few of the same Gods and spirits. Some believe that Vodun actually originated from the practice of Juju. “The demographics of Vodun are very widespread across Africa. About 23% of the population of Benin‚ some 1 million people‚ follow Vodun. It has gone as far as Haiti‚ which has given it the name Haitan Vodou.” – Jung Ran Forte “Many of the 41.5% of the population that refer to themselves as Christian actually practice
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homeland‚ which now constitutes the Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State‚ Nigeria‚ for centuries. The Itsekiris have rich traditional and cultural practices. In the 15th century‚ the early Itsekiris adopted a prince (Ginuwa) from the kingdom of Benin as a monarch‚ and quickly united into a kingdom under his rule. Prior to this time‚ the Itsekiris lived independently in different communities that included Irigbo‚ Ureju‚ Omadino and Ugborodo. Traditionally fishermen and traders‚ the Itsekiris were
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