Module 5
- 1. What are the landmarks of humankinds first civilizations and how has these landmarks shaped our present day lives?
- 2. Intro Today I will talk about three landmarks I believe had a huge impact on our present day lives. These three landmarks include… 1. Paleolithic art 2. The Stone Hedge 3. The Great Pyramids
- 4. What was on the cave walls? The cave walls consist of mostly animals. They contain mysterious markings and lifelike images of animals such as bears, byson, elk, lions, and zebras, among others, like birds, fish, and sea creatures.(Fiero3)
- 5. Why was this important? Cave art was generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both. The exact meanings of the images remain unknown but some people believe that they may have been created within the framework of shamanic beliefs and practice (Moro274).This is showing religion was always very important even 40,000 years ago.
- 6. Stonehedge This in my opinion is one of the biggest unknown physical landmark. Located in Salisbury Plain, Wilshire, England, ca. 20-foot megaliths, some weighting 25 ton each, were dragged from a quarry some 20 miles away, then shaped and assembled without metal tools to form a huge outer circle and an inner horse shoe of post and lintel stones.(Fiero5)
- 7. Why is it important? From what scientist can tell, Salisbury Plain was considered to be a sacred area long before Stonehenge itself was constructed. The Stonehenge appears to be aligned on the sunrise and sunset on the mid-summer solstice. Some believe that it played a role in the unification of Britain when people across the island worked together and used similar ways of living . So in a way this large mass of places Rocks brought people from all over the land and made them unite.
- 9. The Great Pyramids The great Pyramids were built between 2589 and 2504 BC This is the oldest and the largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering. what is now El Giza, Egypt. The ruler at the time was Khufu which is now buried inside these walls with his wife.
- 10. Pyramids continued… The Great Pyramids are located on a plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, on the outskirts of modern-day Cairo. It is 480 feet and covering a base area of 13 acres.(Fiero2) The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, the only pyramid to have been built this way.
- 11. Why was this important? The center of the four sides are indented with a extraordinary degree of precision forming the only 8 sided pyramid, this effect is not visable from the ground or from a distance but only from the air and then only under proper lighting conditions. This phenomenon is only detectable from the air at dawn and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes, when the sun cast shadows on the pyramid. This showed that even Ancient Egyptians kept up with the earths changes.
- 12. Work cited page Fiero, Gloria K. "Chapter 1." Landmarks in Humanities. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009. 1-27. Print. Moro Abadía, Oscar, and Manuel González Morales. "Paleolithic Art: A Cultural History." Journal of Archaeological Research 21.3 (2013): 269. AP Source. Web. 7 Dec. 2015.
Editor's Notes
- #4: The tools shown here shows how advanced even then humans where to know to make tools strong enough to write on stone and harsh surfaces. These tools include cleavers, chisels, spears, harpoons, hand-axes, and a wide variety of choppers.(Fiero2) People even in this “Stone age”.