Art Reflection

Egyptian art is different to our everyday art in looks and use of. Today we make art to appreciate it and for it to be hung up in various places for enjoyment. But not in ancient egypt! In ancient Egypt it was made for a very different purpose! Mostly to all the time it would be religious reasons. It would be either to show the importance of gods, what the gods gave, afterlife and nature (what gods gave), mummification and others. In my art work it was about the passing of the afterlife and the weighing of the heart which determines if the individual can go through or not. Most of these "art works" were made on walls of tombs, temples palaces. The showing of time is also different, today we don't really have different time periods happening in a drawing, most of the time it is a single moment. But in Egypt the drawings have different things happening so they have "windows" like in comics to show different things happening. The most important is always the biggest, the most important individual is a bit bigger than others and great detail is put in saying that individual is the important one. I have learned that there striking differences and close to no similarities surprisingly beside the religious use.

Enheduana Questions

1)The books of that time period are not like the light ones we have today, instead of paper they had clay tablets that had engraved words in them. The words were written in a stylus, a sharp stick. After everything was written the tablets were let out to dry.

2)Her family lived in today known Iraq, which was Mesopotamia in there days. Her father ruled over the city Akkad.

3)Her duties were an author for the ziggurat, a priestess and the kings daughter.

4) The article author could of found historic evidence that there were many clay tablets with her poetry and name.

5) She wrote about new year and how everybody reacted, as well as the animals feelings.

Cuneiform Vs The Todays English Alphabet

Hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, English and other are other types of writing (excluding English, it's a language). So, what do these have in common? Nothing really, them come from different parts of the world, but they are a way of translating things or writing them for future reference. When you look a Cuneiform, and hieroglyphics you probably think "wow, this looks hard to remember". If you gave your writing to them, most likely they will say your writing is hard, why? Because they started to learn theirs at a young age just like you did. But then the writing just started. From the cuneiform and hieroglyphs you see started much simpler. The cuneiform was very simple with drawings. Drinking water would be a head and water (simple right). Yeah, simple enough, but there was one problem, no one wanted to have to draw drawings, from what we see today lines make up our letters. There advanced writing started too look like dashes or commas on a general outline of the picture. So you could guess the picture pretty much. from that step things got much more complex, the dashes were re-arranged to make it faster and simpler to write, but harder to learn. So the class wrote in the complex cuneiform, and I can tell you right now that this was pretty hard(even with the letters infront). Everything looked the same, with dashes.Letters got messed up and an unrelated thing is we had to paint it, making hard for people reading my horrendous drawing/writing. If painting was not hard enough, the Mesopotamians used clay and a sharp stick, then they waited for it to dry. So my summary is that I like my writing and I dont like theirs. In other words the writing was good enough for contracts in the markets and keeping track of livestock, but just doesnt cut it today.LIKE COME ON!!! WRITING ON A COMPUTER WITH CUNEIFORM OR HIEROGLYPHS?

Hammurabi's Code (Law)

Law is a part of our everyday lives, you probably never thought who made law or how was it made. The first law on record was made by a king, the kings name was Hammurabi. He made a book called "The code of Hammurabi". The book has somewhere between 210 laws. These laws are based on a saying "A eye for a eye and a tooth for a tooth". This means everything you do has the same consequence, kinda like science "Everything has and equal and opposite reaction". An example for these laws is if you breaks someones hand, your hand gets broken. Harsh I know but this keeps order in the cities and towns. But there are a few flaws... An example of these flaws is a law that if a builder builds a house and it collapses and kills the owner, the builder is killed or if it collapses on the owners son, the builders son gets killed. The flaw of this is not always the poor construction of the house, but wear and tear or the poor materials of the of the materials seller. My thought is the concept is good but if you look into it it has a few flaws.

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A Day at The Market

Today you just go to the nearest supermarket conveniently in your car, the market floor is polished and the food is refrigerated with fixed prices. Well, this was not the case in Mesopotamia. The market were in the heat of the desert, with crowded places and dusty floors. There are no fixed prices, but instead there is barter and trade. Now a days when you trade in something you have the stuff but if you dont have the stuff you get a contract. In Mesopotamia they have a ball called a "bulla" which is made from clay and has the info of the deal, when the deal is ready they check the bulla for the deal.

Taming Fire

Odyssey: Adventures in Science
October 2009 pg 29-30

Fire, it might not mean much to you, but nearly 1 million years ago fire was the link to life. It gave light, heat and the power to cook things or boil to get rid of bacteria. But who found out about it and how? According to scientists the Swartkrans 1 million years ago found out about fire. But how did they do that. They probably saw fire somewhere else like from storms or bush fires and they probably tried to replicate that. First they probably put a stick on fire from another naturally made fire, from that they tried to make it with heat, because it burnt them so they thought it was heat. There is also one more thing beside using it for cooking and other stuff, they can wrap certain plants together and put it in the fire to get a smoke to repel mosquitos and other insects at night.

So today fire is replaced with stoves, heaters and other appliances, but millions years ago this was the universal heater, stove, alarm to keep other people away and boiler.