#Idea_Remember This is how
The Week Gets Seven Days
Could you imagine having a 10 week? Once upon a time both the ancient Egyptions and Chinese did. The 7 day week originated with ancient Babylon. They worshiped the sun and moon as gods, they also studyed the stars and noticed that most of them stayed in place execpt for 5 that moved back and fourth throughout the year. They identified the moving stars (Planets) with Gods and Godesses and they gave to each of the 7 days of the week the names of one of the seven deities connected to the sun, the moon, and the 5 moving starts (Planets).
6. The Alphabet Emerges
The Alphabet Emerges
"The Chinese began using pictograms, pictures standing for words, around 5000 B.C. Egypt was another home of early writing; its hieroglyphs were a combination of characters and pictograms. The oldest known date from 3400 to about 3200 B.C.
Some time around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians came in contact with the ancient Greeks, who absored and adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave it a name, drawn from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta. The Greeks passed it in to the Etruscans, who handed it on the Romans, Who delivered it to the rest of us."
"The Chinese began using pictograms, pictures standing for words, around 5000 B.C. Egypt was another home of early writing; its hieroglyphs were a combination of characters and pictograms. The oldest known date from 3400 to about 3200 B.C.
Some time around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians came in contact with the ancient Greeks, who absored and adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave it a name, drawn from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta. The Greeks passed it in to the Etruscans, who handed it on the Romans, Who delivered it to the rest of us."
5. King Hammurabi Lays Down the Law
King Hammurabi Lays Down the Law
Revviled and admired, envied and feared, ancient Babylon the remains of which lie some 50 miles south of Baghdad has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Yet thing could be more real than the magnificent code of Hammurabi stele, a 7ft high column of basalt upon which Babylons king inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian scripts predate the hieroglyphs. This ancient tablet is one of the earliest known written records of the laws that give order and shape to human society.
Revviled and admired, envied and feared, ancient Babylon the remains of which lie some 50 miles south of Baghdad has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Yet thing could be more real than the magnificent code of Hammurabi stele, a 7ft high column of basalt upon which Babylons king inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian scripts predate the hieroglyphs. This ancient tablet is one of the earliest known written records of the laws that give order and shape to human society.
4. Mankind Envisions Life After Death
Mankind Envisions Life After Death
"The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the oldest surviving monumental structures, is a testament to one of humankind's most enduring and compelling Ideas: The Afterlife. Their is virtually no civilization that hasn't developed some notion of life after death. In the absence of of anything that could be called reliable physical evidence, men and women of every era and culture have reached for a picture of life's journey in which the grave is merely an entryway to a new stage, not a final destination.
How ________ Saw the after life....
The Egyptions: ...was a journey with the jackal headed God Anubis, to the souls final judgment The Greeks: .... Imagined an under world imagined by Hades
Both Hinduism & Buddhism: ..... the soul is reborn after death
Christians: ..... As a place place to go Heaven or Hell, all depending on your actions while you where alive.
"The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the oldest surviving monumental structures, is a testament to one of humankind's most enduring and compelling Ideas: The Afterlife. Their is virtually no civilization that hasn't developed some notion of life after death. In the absence of of anything that could be called reliable physical evidence, men and women of every era and culture have reached for a picture of life's journey in which the grave is merely an entryway to a new stage, not a final destination.
How ________ Saw the after life....
The Egyptions: ...was a journey with the jackal headed God Anubis, to the souls final judgment The Greeks: .... Imagined an under world imagined by Hades
Both Hinduism & Buddhism: ..... the soul is reborn after death
Christians: ..... As a place place to go Heaven or Hell, all depending on your actions while you where alive.
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