15 résultats pour "mesopotamia"
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Mesopotamia - history.
AssyriaAssyria flourished in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia. An Assyrian king established what was probably the firstcentrally organized empire in the Middle East, between 1813 and 1780 bc. In defending their territory from nomadic invasions,Assyrians gained a reputation in the ancient Middle East for being relentless and ruthless warriors.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Beginning about 1350 BC, Assyria, a north Mesopotamian kingdom, began to assert itself. Assyr...
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Mesopotamia - historia.
a.C.© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Bajo los persas, Mesopotamia se dividió en las satrapías (provincias) de Babilonia y Assur, desempeñando Babilonia un papel fundamental en el Imperio. La lengua aramea,ampliamente hablada con anterioridad, se convirtió en el idioma común, y el establecimiento de un gobierno imperial trajo consigo la estabilidad a la región. Sin embargo,al final, el régimen fue demasiado opresivo y la prosperidad de Mesopotamia declinó. 5 ÉPOCA HELENÍSTI...
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Mesopotamia - History.
Contributed By:A. R. MillardMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Technology.
loose soil in this region, known as the Fertile Crescent, was easily scratched for planting, and an abundance of trees was available for firewood. By 5000 BC, farming communities were established in areas known today as Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Greece, and the islands of Crete and Cyprus. Agricultural societies in these places constructed stone buildings, used the sickle to harvest grain, developed a primitive plowstick, and advanced their skills inmetalworking. Trade in flint al...
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Mesopotamian Art and Architecture, the arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century
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arts. III EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD Figures from Tell AsmarCreated around 2700 bc, these stone figures are from the city of Tell Asmar in what today is Iraq. From the Temple ofAbu, the statuettes stood in watchful prayer with the wide, staring eyes often found in Sumerian sculpture. The figuresare in the Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq.Art Resource, NY The first historical epoch of Sumerian dominance lasted from about 3000 BC until about 2340 BC. While earlier architectural traditions continued, a ne...
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Asiria - historia.
Relieve asirioUnos soldados asirios llevan un carro a la otra orilla del río, mientras que un hombre (arriba a la izquierda) flota sobre una pielinflada. Los relieves de estas características informan sobre interesantes aspectos de la civilización asiria.Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY La cultura asiria se asemejaba a la babilónica en muchos aspectos. Exceptuando los anales reales, por ejemplo, la literatura asiria era prácticamente idéntica a la babilónica,y los reyes asirios más cultos, especia...
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Arte mesopotámico - historia.
intuir que fue un edificio con hornacinas de tamaño monumental (76×30 m). Algunas construcciones del cuarto nivel de Uruk estaban revestidas con mosaicos a base deconos de arcilla policromada que se incrustaban en los muros formando diseños geométricos. Otra de las técnicas decorativas fue el encalado o blanqueado de los muros.Esto ha hecho que se denomine como templo Blanco a un edificio construido en el área de Uruk, dedicado al dios sumerio Anu, que tuvo en su interior un santuarioencalado, e...
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Arte mesopotámico.
intuir que fue un edificio con hornacinas de tamaño monumental (76×30 m). Algunas construcciones del cuarto nivel de Uruk estaban revestidas con mosaicos a base deconos de arcilla policromada que se incrustaban en los muros formando diseños geométricos. Otra de las técnicas decorativas fue el encalado o blanqueado de los muros.Esto ha hecho que se denomine como templo Blanco a un edificio construido en el área de Uruk, dedicado al dios sumerio Anu, que tuvo en su interior un santuarioencalado, e...
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Irak - geografía.
a otras, localizándose las mayores concentraciones junto a los sistemas fluviales. La población urbana es del 67% aproximadamente. 3.2 Divisiones administrativas El territorio de Irak está dividido en 18 gobernaciones, tres de las cuales constituyen regiones autónomas kurdas. Cada gobernación está regida por un gobernadordesignado por el gobierno central. Irak se anexionó y ocupó Kuwait entre agosto de 1990 y febrero de 1991, convirtiéndose en su decimonovena gobernación. 3.3 Ciudades principal...
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Metalwork
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INTRODUCTION
Metalwork, in the fine arts, objects of artistic, decorative, and utilitarian value made of one or more kinds of metal--from precious to base--fashioned by either casting,
hammering, or joining or a combination of these techniques.
Early Bronze DiskThis disk with the head of Acheloos, an Etruscan river god, was made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, sometime inthe early 5th century bc. It comes from the necropolis of Monte Quaglieri in Tarquinia. Alloys are made by smelting twodifferent metals together.Scala/Art Resource, NY Knowledge of smelting ultimately led to knowledge of mixing different ores together in the smelting process to produce simple alloys. This followed an intermediateperiod, about 3000 BC, when comp...
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Iraq - country.
The Euphrates begins in Turkey, crosses Syria, and enters Iraq at Abū Kam āl. The flow of the Euphrates into Iraq has been greatly reduced by dams built by Turkeyand Syria. The gradient of the Euphrates above the town of H īt, in west central Iraq, is steep. In the 2,640 km (1,640 mi) from its source in Turkey to H īt, the river fallsfrom 3,000 m (10,000 ft) to a low water elevation of 50 m (170 ft) above sea level, an average drop of 1 m per km (6 ft per mi). In Iraq below H īt the fall is very...
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Assyria - USA History.
villages and cities were ransacked and razed, but no attempt was made to annex their territories. In the course of time this pattern of conquest changed, and the Assyrian rulers began to make Assyria the center of a new empire by incorporating the conquered landsinto their domain, although probably not according to a conscious plan. Toward the end of the 10th century BC, for example, Adad-nirari II annexed the Aramaean state centering on Nisibis, east of the Habur River. His son, Tukulti-Ninurt...
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Assyria - history.
Assyrian ReliefThis Assyrian relief, made of alabaster, was found at the palace of Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad (now in Iraq). It depictstimber from valuable cedars of Lebanon being shipped by sea. More than 2,500 years old, the sculpture is now in the Louvre in Paris,France.Giraudon/Art Resource, NY Assyrian culture resembled that of Babylonia in most respects. Except for the royal annals, for example, Assyrian literature was practically identical with its Babyloniancounterpart, and the...
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Babylonia - USA History.
Pharmacology, too, doubtless had made considerable progress, although the only major direct evidence of this comes from a Sumerian tablet written several centuriesbefore Hammurabi. C Legal System and Writing Law and justice were key concepts in the Babylonian way of life. Justice was administered by the courts, each of which consisted of from one to four judges. Often theelders of a town constituted a tribunal. The judges could not reverse their decisions for any reason, but appeals from their...
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Armenian Massacres .
Some of the Armenian revolutionaries and others hoped that the massacres would provoke the intervention of the European powers (Britain, France, Austria-Hungary,and Germany). Although the leaders of the European powers publicly condemned the actions of the sultan, they failed to intervene. Mutual rivalries and suspicions, aswell as the imprecise terms of Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, helped produce this inaction. But these bloody episodes soon paved the way for the rise of a newnationalist...