Ancient knowledge of the sciences was often wrong and wholly unsatisfactory by modern standards. However, not all of the knowledge of the more learned peoples of the past was false. In fact, without people like Euclid or Plato, we may not have been as advanced in this age as we are. Mathematics is an adventure…
The Middle Ages–the period directly preceding the Renaissance–saw the use of music for specific purposes. This included songs used to accompany knights riding into battle, songs for working, for dancing, and most notably for religious ceremony. The majority of this music has been lost. Only church music survived because only men of the church were…
SIGNIFICANT PERSON OR CONCEPT DEFINITION, OR IMPORTANCE TWO EXAMPLES HAMMURABI (POSITIVE LAW AS MADE BY A PERSON) Codification Retribution (eye for an eye) Patriarchal All Babylonians Subject to the law King is above the law Very harsh and cruel Son gets hand cut off if strikes father, not mother Doctor gets hand cut off if…