MESOPOTAMIAN EMPIRE

       THE  MESOPOTAMIAN EMPIRE




TIMELINE

Babylon Gains Independence from Assyrian Empire 627 BC 

  Assyria Capital of Nineveh Captured by Babylonians  612 BC

 Battle of Meggido Ends the Assyrian Empire  605 BC

Babylon's Northern Border Secured before 600 BC

Babylon's Siege and Subjugation of Tyre  585-572 BC 

  Persians defeat Babylonians at Battle of Opis in June, 539 BC

Babylon Captured by Persians Oct, 539 BC 

INFORMATION 
The Babylonian Empire was the most powerful state in the ancient world after the fall of the assyrian  empire 612 BCE. Its capital  Babilon was beautifully adorned by king Nebuchadnezzar, who erected several famous buildings. Even after the Babylonian Empire had been overthrown by the Persian king Cyrus the Great 539, the city itself remained an important cultural center.  

ZIGURATS


A Zigurat is a  mesopotamian temple which has a tower or pyramid shape.Its design goes from a simple base whith a temple at the top to amazing  buildings.
The Zigurats  homed some priests and other people who administrated the city

The most famous Zigurat was the Babel Tower.  They built this tower with the hope of it reaching the sky.

 

mesopotamian gods

MESOPOTAMIAN GODS

TIAMAD

She was a the dragon goddess of creative chaos






  ISHTAR
 Ishtar was the Sky Goddess of Sex, Fertility, Love - and War








ENKI
he was the Highly-sexed beer-loving Sumerian Creator God















 MARDUK

He was the top Babylonian deity, Fertility God and supreme holy leader






 APSU
he was the God of Sweet Waters and the Heavenly Oceans of Wisdom



















GILGAMESH
 he was the Sumerian and Akkadian Hero who was two thirds God

















 NERGAL 
He was a bit of a bully in bull form, with lots of bellowing, roaring and raping








ANU  
 he was the Top Sky God, Lord of Heaven and Supreme Manager of all the other Gods





















INNANA
She was the Fabulous Goddess of Words, Language, Syntax and Meaning

KINGU


she was a Dragon-God consort of  TIAMAT

Gilgamesh was a semi-god that was bored so he started to sigh at the foot of the ziggurat the gods got angry and sent another semi god to the city of Uruk,Gilgamesh and Enkidu started fighting till they became friends and left Uruk looking for adventures.And when the monsters notice it, they made a party

prehistoric art

FIRST QUESTIONThe first forms of art were extremely primitive.Prehistoric people represented their world and believes through images.Art started with the homo sapiens in Africa,Europe,Asia,Oceania and America.Engravings and later pottery reveal not only a quest for beauty but also  complex  social systems and spiritual concepts.
The painting needed a more elaborated and complex technology that the simple outline of a stone   They  used natural colourings of yellow, red tones, ocres and black, with all his ranges and tones.  In the Neolithic the white was added. The colourings were coming from oxides of iron and manganese, from lands and charcoals, red ochre, hematíes, limonita, kaolin, etc, diluted in blood, resins of trees, animal fats and vegetable juices.They used to paint in caves and shelters, only some special persons could paint,the  chamans  or simillar people

SECOND QUESTION

THIRD QUESTION











FORTH QUESTION 

LASCAUXS
With the advent of the Upper Paleolithic period (from 40,000 BCE) coinciding with the replacement of Neanderthal Man with "modern" versions of Homo sapiens, prehistoric art takes a massive leap forward, as exemplified by the cave painting of western Europe, a medium that reached its apogee in the caves of Lascaux














ALTAMIRA



Altamira  is a cave in Cantabria (Spain) famous for its upper paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands.
Its special relevance comes from the fact that it was the first cave in which prehistoric cave paintings were discovered. When the discovery was first made public in 1880, it led to a bitter public controversy between experts which continued into the early 20th century

 FIFTH QUESTION


  They  used natural colourings of yellow, red tones, ocres and black, with all his ranges and tones.  In the Neolithic the white was added. The colourings were coming from oxides of iron and manganese, from lands and charcoals, red ochre, hematíes, limonita, kaolin, etc, diluted in blood, resins of trees, animal fats and vegetable juices.

sixth question
 
 they used paintures for teaching others haw to hunt or to tell stories to each other, of course it had a religious purpose because only special people as chamans or simillar  people could paint,yes they did because they teached others by paintings

RIVER THAMES

                            river thames

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The River Thames  flows through southerm England.  It is the longest river entirely in England

and the  second longest on the United Kingdom, behind the River Severn.  Thames is best known because it passes through central London, the river   also passes alongside  other towns and cities for instantce Oxford, Reading,  Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond.
The river gives its name to several geographical and political entities, as,for instance,Thames Valley , Thames Gateway, Thames Estuary etc.The river lasts for 215 miles(346km)and is born at Thames Head in Gloucestershire and it goes to the North sea on the Thames Estuary via London.

here you have a picture of the rivers born:

here you have a picture of the rivers flow throw Oxford and London:


Oxford:

London:

 

 Here you have a foto of the rivers death: