The Song women showed their status through industrial and commercial activity, literature, and agriculture. This is seen in Doc 4, the painting portraying a procession down a street, with wealthy women in closed sedan-chairs. This meant that wealthy women were given the privilege to participate in industrial and commercial activity. Similarly, Doc 3 displays women playing an important part of the trading system by making the necessary goods. This displays a higher power for women because they demonstrate power in agriculture and agriculture was a needed economic sustain for any civilization.
Through the Golden Lens of God: The Use of Gold and Domesticated Animals in Religious Artifacts and Paintings Nieves Espinal Art History 1000 September 27, 2011 Through the Golden Lens of God: The Use of Gold and Domesticated Animals in Religious Artifacts and Paintings This exhibition exposes the significance between the peculiar combination of a gold medium and the depiction of animals in religious artifacts and paintings. This exhibit profiles pieces ranging from Prehistoric Europe to 19thcentury Asia. The use of domesticated animals in religious artifacts served as a reminder of the bountiful nature of the Gods. This bountiful nature was depicted the Gods through gold; a popular medium synonymous to religion that remains symbolic for power and permanence. Nonetheless, the combination of these two elements made these pieces potent enough to shape the beliefs of millions.
One thing they had in comen was that they both had natural barriers separating them from other meager civilizations. Another major similarity was that religion played a big role in leaders staying in power because in china the Zhou claimed that gods gave them the through as long as they guided the people wisely and called their rule “mandate of the havens” and in Egypt it was believed that the pharah was a god on earth and he was son of Re. Finally another similarity is that they both depended on annual floods for the grouth of there crops. Differences: even doe Egypt and china have many things in common they also differ a lot. A way they differ is that Egypt has more of a dry flat land and china is mostly raised wet land.
It was made up of marauding bands of warriors who migrated from the north. The God of Sun and War for the Aztecs was Huitzilopochtli. Just a few of the Aztec accomplishments have been the development of mathematics, the canoe, the highly specialized Aztec calendar, and remarkably helpful forms of medicine. Aztec society was highly structured, based on agriculture, and guided by a religion that pervaded every aspect of life. The Aztec worshiped Gods represented natural forces that were vital to their agricultural economy.
In fact, the ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris gave them the gift of barley, one of their most important crops. A large temple was built to honour Osiris at Abydos. Isis Appearance: * Woman with headdress in the shape of a throne * A pair of cow horns with a sun disk Isis was a protective goddess. She used powerful magic spells to help people in need. Isis was the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus.
The social aspect is provided by the way of people who would travel and write to spread ideas and goods for the greater good of mankind in those times. This is asserted in the sources 1, 3, 4 , and 6. In source 1, this is communicated through Cassius Dio, a great historian, he showed that people, in his statement, he explains that people love this fabric, silk, which came from barbarians showing that people can change by a popular demand. In source 3, people who barely knew each other greeted each other with the utmost respect. In source 4, it is insinuated that people had interacted by the market’s interconnected network.
The rule of the Mongol people in Asia affected both Russia and China in many ways both economically and politically, however, because the Mongols directly ruled China, they had a greater impact on the country of China. One economic similarity the Chinese and Russians shared under Mongol rule was that using the rule of the Mongols, the reinventing of the Silk Road helped both countries economically by increasing safe trade between countries, trading mainly silk from China and fur from Russia. The Mongols also affected China and Russia in the new types of political system or the trade of power that occurred: the Chinese created a bureaucracy while the Russians ruled their people with feudalistic tactics such as princes/vassals of the Mongols. The Mongols also created sufism in Russia. The political impact from the Mongols was much more centralized and uncompromising in China rather than in Russia, where political impact was didn’t have as much effect.
The marine gate at Pompeii suggests that Pompeii was a very busy port. Jaye Pont’s research into red slip pottery also shows Pompeii had a wide trade network. Images of the God ‘Mercury’ who represented prosperity, are found throughout the town, and inscriptions have been found in houses which paid tribute to the pursuit of profit e.g. a mosaic floor in one house has the words; “Profit is Joy” Evidence of agriculture is shown by the number of gardens (horti) inside the walls of the town and working farms (villa rusticate) outside the town’s walls. Wine and oil were the main source of income for the people in the Vesuvian area.
For instance, after the battle with Grendel’s mother, Beowulf acknowledged his surroundings where he explained, “the monsters’ hall was full of rich treasures,” (lines 568-569). Seeking fame and treasure was motive for the hero, especially Beowulf, who “longed only for fame,” (lines 485-486). Throughout the epic there was also many references to the elaborate detailed armor, such as a “mail shirt.” Hrothgar rewarded Beowulf with as the title of being a hero after his courageous efforts of defeating Grendel and then Grendel’s mother and “gold and heaped up ancient treasure” (lines 447-449), as well. This shows Hrothgar’s gratitude towards Beowulf. The king, who is highly respected by his people, has a great impact in developing Beowulf’s
The purpose of the sculptures is not certain, but these stones may have been religious objects. The Mixtec culture of central Mexico worshipped many gods, one known as Piltzintecuhtli, or 7 Flower (his name presented in the pictoral language as seven circles and a flower) who was the god for hallucinatory plants, especially the divine mushroom. The Vienna Codex (or Codex Vindobonensis) (ca 13th-15th century) depicts the ritual use of mushrooms by the Mixtec gods, showing Piltzintecuhtli and 7 other gods holding mushrooms in their hands.1 The Aztec people had a closely-related god of the entheogens. Xochipilli, Prince of Flowers, was the divine patron of "the flowery dream" as the Aztecs called the ritual hallucinatory trance. The Aztecs used a number of plant hallucinogens including psilocybian mushrooms (teonanácatl), morning glory seeds, Datura (tlapatl or toloache) , Peyote (peyotl), and mixitl grain.