He stands directly behind Hatshepsut while dedicating the myrrh acquired at Punt to Amun-Re. Many historians argue that Thutmose III resented Hatshepsut’s superiority in their co-regency, and they support this by the claim that Thutmose III destroyed many of her inscriptions and reliefs. However, many New Kingdom pharaohs replaced their predecessor’s cartouche with their own. This destruction of many of her inscriptions occurred in the year 42, 22 years after her death. Thutmose had control of the army.
The Nile: How it Shaped Ancient Egypt By: Jules Orrukem What would you do if you were thirsty? You would take a drink from your water bottle, right? However, what if you lived in Ancient Egypt? They didn’t have water bottles and couldn’t just turn on the tap. Ancient Egyptians did not have the technology we have today to perform simple tasks we consider easy, such as transporting heavy blocks for building.
And according to this whole article, I learnt more about this group. For example, they had their culture hero Notgnihsaw, they have highly developed market economy and they had their special ritual activities. Everything I read told me there was a group which named Nacirema had their special way or structure of society for their ritual and ceremony of the human body, the appearance and health. Nacirema was an existence of the other culture in United States. Even though we looked at one thing in different side, I can still know that Nacirema was similar to us.
In Pompeii, much of the political, religious and economic aspects of life were shown. Many reconstructed and excavated houses display political situations such as Basilicas houses, laws and legislative documents. In houses, economy is evidently suggested through front shops and silverware, demonstrating wealth and trade from different locations, Egypt being an example. These private houses are able to present these Egyptian influences to Pompeian life through the representations of wall paintings of the Nile. Guiseppi Fiorelli was an archaeologist who created the idea of conservation through his makings of plaster casts.
The Mesopotamian and Indus Valley’s architectural, technological, and economical structures all developed differently from one another’s, but also had some similarities between the two. Although they have their similarities in their architectural, economical, and technological ways of life, these two civilizations have enough contrast between each other to be viewed as different societies. Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization share some similarities involving architecture and the way they build their cities and villages, but have some constructive differences as well. They both retain a sort of communal bath house, where all the citizens bathe and cleanse themselves. They have these bathing houses in most villages and cities in the Indus River Valley, but in Mesopotamia, they have these only in their largest cities.
Mecca is located in what is now present day Saudi Arabia, about half way down the Western side of the Arabian Peninsula. The Kaaba, the black Islamic stone shrine established by Abraham and Ishmael, is located there. Mecca is deeply rooted in tradition, and the stones and Kaaba were erected or associated with Holy Ground, where individuals had a dramatic experience with God or Allah as he is called in Islam. During the time of Mohammed, Mecca had became a easy stopping place for the caravans and merchants along the spice trade which brought new wealth, foreign ideals and social values to Mecca. Being the stopping point brought to Mecca a host of undesirables such as; merchants, prostitutes swindlers and gamblers, whose social values would clash with that of the Arab Bedouin, who clung to traditional ideologies (Grand Canyon University, 2010, p. 1-2, para.
20. The expansion began with Muhammad traveling from mecca to medina. He was able to expand his empire because of muhammads 4 rightly guided caliphates which taught people to act good and defend their country and because of the muslims offering opportunities to persecuted people. Muhammad later came back to Mecca and took over the people inhabiting it. He then built a vast and prosperous empire.
The word derived from Balkan influence, which was currently under Ottoman rule. It was not supposed to have been invented by the Ottoman Turks. The word is widely believed to have come about in the late 18th century when Egypt (back then a part of the Ottoman Empire) was invaded by France. The invasion included a lot of physical punishment to include “pain walks”. Thereafter these walks fashioned the Ottoman footstools to rest the victim’s tired extremities.
The civilization I choose was Egypt. After watching the slideshow, I choose Egypt because they really just made the most of what was giving to them. How did this society attempt to secure a fresh water source? The Egyptians secure attempted to secure water though the floods. The Archimedean screw was used by the Egyptians to raise water from the canal.
One of the most and notable similarity is the history that we share. For example, one in Turkey can talk about the glorious “Conquest of the city of Istanbul”, in like manner; one in Greece talks about the “fall of the city of Istanbul”. Perhaps, on that account; not only in Greece there is small group of people who hates Turks but also in Turkey there is a limited group of people who hates Greeks. Another big similarity will be the importance that we give to the temples, the churches and the mosques in Turkey. Today, one of the most important touristic symbols of Turkey might be considered as Ayasofya.