what were the ziggurats

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A ziggurat (/ˈzɪɡʊˌræt/ ZIG-uu-rat; Akkadian: ziqquratu,D-stem of zaqāru 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (זָקַר) 'protrude' is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding stories or levels. Notable ziggurats include the Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, the Ziggurat of Aqar Quf near Baghdad, the now destroyed Etemenanki in Babylon, Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān and Sialk.

The biblical account of the Tower of Babel has been associated by modern scholars to the massive construction undertakings of the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, and in particular to the ziggurat of Etemenanki in Babylon in light of the Tower of Babel Stele describing its restoration by Nebuchadnezzar II.

The design of the ziggurat was probably a precursor to that of the pyramids of Egypt, the earliest of which dates to circa 2600 BCE.

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Ziggurats were built by ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Elamites, Eblaites and Babylonians for local religions. Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex that included other buildings. The precursors of the ziggurat were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period[9] during the sixth millennium. The ziggurats began as a platforms (usually oval, rectangular or square). The ziggurat was a mastaba-like structure with a flat top. The sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside. Each step was slightly smaller than the step below it. The facings were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance. Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks. The number of floors ranged from two to seven.

According to archaeologist Harriet Crawford, "It is usually assumed that the ziggurats supported a shrine, though the only evidence for this comes from Herodotus, and physical evidence is non-existent. It has also been suggested by a number of scholars that this shrine was the scene of the sacred marriage, the central rite of the great new year festival. Herodotus describes the furnishing of the shrine on top of the ziggurat at Babylon and says it contained a great golden couch on which a woman spent the night alone. The god Marduk was also said to come and sleep in his shrine. The likelihood of such a shrine ever being found is remote. Erosion has usually reduced the surviving ziggurats to a fraction of their original height, but textual evidence may yet provide more facts about the purpose of these shrines. In the present state of our knowledge it seems reasonable to adopt as a working hypothesis the suggestion that the ziggurats developed out of the earlier temples on platforms and that small shrines stood on the highest stages..." citation needed] Access to the shrine would have been by a series of ramps on one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. The Mesopotamian ziggurats were not places for public worship or ceremonies. They were believed to be dwelling places for the gods and each city had its own patron god. Only priests were permitted on the ziggurat or in the rooms at its base, and it was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests were very powerful members of Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian society.

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According to Herodotus, at the top of each ziggurat was a shrine, although none of these shrines have survived. One practical function of the ziggurats was a high place on which the priests could escape rising water that annually inundated lowlands and occasionally flooded for hundreds of kilometers, for example, the 1967 flood. Another practical function of the ziggurat was for security. Since the shrine was accessible only by way of three stairways, a small number of guards could prevent non-priests from spying on the rituals at the shrine on top of the ziggurat, such as initiation rituals like the Eleusinian mysteries, cooking of sacrificial food and burning of carcasses of sacrificial animals. Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex that included a courtyard, storage rooms, bathrooms, and living quarters, around which a city spread.

According to popular belief, the helical minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra was built on the model of the Zikkurat. Another example of a ziggurat with an outer spiral ramp is the tower of Khorsabad.

Al Zaqura Building in Baghdad, constructed in the 1970s

The shape of the ziggurat experienced a revival in modern architecture and Brutalist architecture starting in the 1970s. The Al Zaqura - Arabic; الزاكورة- Building is an government building situated in Baghdad. It serves the office of the prime minister of Iraq.  


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B.) Turning Point

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Background. Thomas Jefferson called it "The turn of the tide of success." The battle of Kings Mountain, fought October 7th, 1780, was an important American victory during the Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major patriot victory to occur after the British invasion of Charleston, SC in May 1780.

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I am pretty sure Group B

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Group B includes more violent actions.

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While hunting with his grandfather one winter morning Corey began to shiver. Why was Corey shivering?

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He was maintaining homoestasis

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Homeostasis means maintaining a stable internal environment. Corey was maintaining a stable internal environment by shivering . Shivering is one of the many automatic and subconscious functions that the body performs to regulate itself.

He was cold and going through homeostasis. His body is responding to the external conditions around him.

Based on this section of the Torah, God promised Abraham…

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The Molasses Act led many American merchants to respond by?

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The American colonists protested the act, claiming that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies' needs. ... The American colonists feared that the act's effect would be to increase the price of rum manufactured in New England, thus disrupting the region's exporting capacity.

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Passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is matchless. It is superior to the force of arms. How, then, can it be considered only a weapon of the weak? Physical force men are strangers to the courage that is requisite in a passive resister. Do you believe that a coward can ever disobey a law that he dislikes? Extremists are considered to be advocates of brute-force. Why do they, then, talk about obeying laws? I do not blame them. They can say nothing else. When they succeed in driving out the English, and they themselves become governors, they will want you and me to obey their laws. And that is a fitting thing for their constitution. But a passive resister will say he will not obey a law that is against his conscience, even though he may be blown to pieces at the mouth of a cannon.
What do you think? Wherein is courage required — in blowing others to pieces from behind a cannon or with a smiling face to approach a cannon and be blown to pieces? Who is the true warrior — he who keeps death always as a bosom-friend or he who controls the death of others? Believe me that a man devoid of courage and manhood can never be a passive resister.
This, however, I will admit: that even a man, weak in body, is capable of offering this resistance. One man can offer it just as well as millions. Both men and women can indulge in it. It does not require the training of an army; it needs no Jiu-jitsu. Control over the mind is alone necessary, and, when that is attained, man is free like the king of the forest, and his very glance withers the enemy.
Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used. Without drawing a drop of blood, it produces far-reaching results. It never rusts, and cannot be stolen. Competition between passive resisters does not exhaust. The sword of passive resistance does not require a scabbard. It is strange indeed that you should consider such a weapon to be a weapon merely of the weak.3
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Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue. I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the Whites. . . .
. . . We first broke the law in a way which avoided any recourse to violence; when this form was legislated against, and then the Government resorted to a show of force to crush opposition to its policies, only then did we decide to answer violence with violence. . . .

. . . I, and some colleagues, came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be unrealistic and wrong for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the Government met our peaceful demands with force.
This conclusion was not easily arrived at. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle. . . .
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Above all, we want equal political rights, because without them our disabilities will be permanent. I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. This makes the white man fear democracy.
But this fear cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the only solution which will guarantee racial harmony and freedom for all. It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on colour, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one colour group by another. The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs it will not change that policy.4

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Do) 7. Why did slavery become a widespread practice in the United States during the
colonial period?

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The Southern Colonies had the most slavery. With all the crops, the farm owners didn't want to do all the work themselves. They bought unwilling living people to do it for them, and if they didn't submit, they would be severely punished, sometimes to a lethal extent.


This person is considered “one of the most detested" English kings
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Charles
Henry II

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King John I

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King John I may forever be known as a Bad King following that seminal history textbook 1066 and All That, but according to history authors, it is Henry VIII who should bear the title of the worst monarch in history

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After Cromwell's death, the monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles I's eldest son, Charles II. Charles II. On the day of Charles II death, 6 February 1685, the line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones was: Prince James, Duke of York, (b. 1633) Charles II's brother; Princess Mary of Orange, (b. 1662) Prince James's 1st daughter

Which statements accurately describe northern Italian Renaissance city-states?

A. Early Renaissance city-states were generally well-planned and orderly.

B.A major problem in many early Renaissance cities was the poor quality of goods produced by craftsmen with no oversight or standards.

C.Renaissance cities were centers of commerce and craftsmanship.

D.Italian city-states in the Renaissance were republics led by powerful merchant families.

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D.

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Renaissance art was all about light and shadow and 3 dimensional art- in fact renaissance artists loved to create the appearance of three-dimensional space.

Ayllu refers to:

1 your Mayan community
2 a hut for you and your Incan family
3 the community you and your Incan family lives in
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3 The communtity that your Incan family lives in.

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3. The community you and your incan family lives in.

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(WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST!) Summarize the key developments in the early transportational revolution of the early 1800s.

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The two major advances in transportation that took place during the 1800s were the steamboat and the train.

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In the United States at the beginning of the 1800s, essentially all transportation was either by animal power or by wind power. Other boats could go down rivers, but not back up them.

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Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Europe more than doubled. Explain reasons

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Answer: The population more than doubled due to a declining death rate. Why was improved hospital care especially important to the poor? While wealthier patients could be treated at home, the poor were admit- ted to hospitals that were often unsani- tary.

Explanation: After 1400 world population grew more steadily. One reason was food. Europe's population doubled to almost 200 million during the 18th century, and doubled again during the 19th century, thanks to improved living conditions and healthcare. Between 1800 and 1900, the population of Europe more than doubled. Instead, populations soared because the death rate fell. Nutrition improved, thanks in part to improved methods of farming, food storage, and distribution. Medical advances and improvements in public sanitation also slowed death rates.

What helped make farming easier? Helppp

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Commercial fertilizer

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The application of commercial fertilizer, however, has been one of the biggest changes to impact farming. Commercial fertilizer, a blend of nitrogen, phosphate and potash, allows farmers to realize high yields on their crops and to use the same plot of land year upon year for their crops

How did improved farming technologies and techniques impact the Plains Indians?
A)
The Plains Indians learned to peacefully coexist with the growing number
of settlers.
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The Plains Indians bought more manufactured goods from the increased
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Plains Indians were employed by American settlers to work on the farms.
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American settlers demanded more land from the Plains Indians to farm.

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The Plains Indians learned to peacefully coexist with the growing number

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Which of the following people was an escaped slave who became a
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.3. How does the Louisiana Purchase again
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In completing the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson had to put aside his principles because this type of transaction was not expressly mentioned in the Constitution. ... Jefferson needed to move quickly when he discovered that Spain had signed a secret treaty with France in 1801 ceding Louisiana to France.

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In both Britain and the United States, what happened in the 1870s that limited child labor? As unions became stronger, they didn’t allow children under 14 to work. Laws passed in both countries prohibited children under 14 from working. Laws passed in both countries limited children to work only 8 hours a day. Compulsory education and attendance laws were passed in both countries.

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D. Compulsory education and attendance laws were passed in both countries.

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In both Britain and the United States, Compulsory education and attendance laws were passed in both countries in the 1870s that limited child labor. Thus the correct answer is D.

What is child labor?

When children are not allowed to go to schools and get exploited in factories or industries in a very young age which disturbs their childhood is known as child labor.

The causes of child labor are poverty and unemployment which leads to children working in factories to earn their livelihood. Poverty restricts them to seek education which causes them to involved in such activities.

In the 1870s Compulsory education and attendance laws were passed in both Britain and the United States which restricts child labor and made it compulsory for every child to go and attend school and seek better education for growth.

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What was the purpose of the articles of confederation

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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.

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Explain who was given the right to vote and who was not under the progressive acts placed in the Oklahoma Constitution. Also include any provisions that helped to exclude populations.

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The Oklahoma Constitution guaranteed the right to vote to all males over the age of 18, including African Americans.

What is the Oklahoma Constitution?

The State of Oklahoma's Constitution serves as its primary governmental document is called as the Oklahoma Constitution. All males over 18 who are citizens of Oklahoma are guaranteed the right to vote, including African Americans.  But in 1910, the state instituted literacy standards to exclude African Americans from voting.

Voting rights for women were extended to school board elections. Women gained the ability to cast ballots in all state elections in 1918. At 10:16 in the morning on November 16, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the statehood proclamation and announced, “Oklahoma is officially a state.”

A preamble and thirty articles make up the Oklahoma Constitution, which is only superseded by the US Constitution. The first eight articles deal with state governance.

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What were Thomas Jefferson’s concerns with the Louisiana Purchase?

A. He feared the nation was growing too large to govern  
B. He feared the debate between slave and free states  
C. He worried he had paid too much  
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A

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A. he feared the nation was growing too large to govern

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" He was concerned that the Constitution did not address the liberties that were protected by the Bill of Rights." (Thoughts co)

"the Constitution did not specifically grant the federal government the authority to acquire more territory..." (National archives)

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Which religious leader is described by this statement?

A seeker of truth, he became the Enlightened One and taught people the path to end their pain and suffering and reach Nirvana.


Asoka Maurya


Siddhartha Gautama


Ramayana


Mahinda

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It's Siddhartha Gautama

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It's Siddhartha Gautama

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How did American Indians participate in the American Revolution?

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Indians knew that the Revolution was a contest for Indian land as well as for liberty. Some Indian tribes went to war early. Cherokee warriors, frustrated by recurrent land losses, defied the authority of older chiefs and attacked frontier settlements, only to be soundly defeated by expeditions from Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

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Many Native American tribes fought in the Revolutionary War. The majority of these tribes fought for the British but a few fought for the Americans. Many of these tribes tried to remain neutral in the early phase of the war but when some of them came under attack by American militia, they decided to join the British. Indians fought in the Revolution for Indian liberties and Indian homelands, not for the British empire. But the image of Indian participation presented in the Declaration of Independence prevailed: most Americans believed that Indians had backed monarchy and tyranny.

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What is the most acceptable and easy way to revise a budget to allow for the purchase of a new couch?

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Well you could cook dinners at home instead of going out to eat.

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This would save you more money to buy a new couch.

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Cook dinners at home instead of going out to eat

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It allows you to save your money and gather enough to buy a couch

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Why were the temples important to early cities?

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Each temple was dedicated to a major deity, who was the main god of the city

why did it take so long for halloween to become mainstream in america?

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because the eauropeons were not fans of it at first because the thought it was a reminder of catholism

what was the outcome of the battle of hastings?

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they won

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D) William’s Norman-French army defeated Harold’s English army.

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