Introduction

Many ancient civilizations have added to our current knowledge, technology, and understanding of the world. Some provide the foundations of modern ideology. The ones covered in this chapter commenced the movement from the very ancient agrarian society to modern culture. They are all geographically located in the Mediterranean Basin or the Middle East and include Mesopotamia (Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria), Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Persia, Greece, and Rome. (The Women's Movement in Art, P.54-57)

My thesis statement for this paper is “Nancy is talking something about Women rules the important position almost more than men in Ancient Egyptian.” The author has described many aspects in this book, but I am focusing on this statement and will I agree with the author's view point. The author described many new facts which helped me learning.

Discussion

In this chapter of the book author has described about the rights and women rules, according to their position. I agree with the Author's view point because she mentions about urban development involved not only a large group of people living in close proximity but also a revolution in social organization, in farming, and in technology. This cultural leap was a transition from the primitive settlement to the modern society.

Beginning around 5500 BCE and continuing for the next 2,000 years, people gradually began to move from the mountains into the Mesopotamian plain and settled in cities. In addition to the development of cities, these people developed irrigation, canals, and flood control. They learned how to drain marshes and to turn them into farmland. They also invented the plow, the wheel, and metallurgy (copper and bronze). During this time, the Sumerians moved to this area and became the dominate people (Philips, Stephen Bennett P.24-26).

Ancient Egypt's imprint on humanity continues to be visible today. The Great Pyramids of Giza, Rameses colossal statues, numerous hieroglyphic texts, and Bible stories of the Hebrews' struggle in Egypt are all markers of this past great civilization. Archaeological discoveries, such as Tutankhamun's gold-filled tomb, a plethora of mummies (and the so-called mummy's curse), and ornate temples and buildings, combined with the ancient Egyptian obsession with the dead, have fueled the storyline of many modern novels and movies. Ancient Egyptian art continues to impress upon modern culture and continues to be appreciated for its simplistic yet sophisticated elegance (New York City, Museum of Modern Art the Complete P.16-18).

About 3100 BCE, the Sumerians developed writing. Initially, the writing took the form of pictographs or hieroglyphics, with each symbol representing a word. By 2500 BCE, the language had simplified and developed into cuneiform, that is, wedge-shaped symbols representing syllables of words. For over 3,000 years, various civilizations, such as the Hittites, Assyrians, and Babylonians, adopted and used this system of writing. Most of the early Sumerian texts were records of economic activity, but by 2500 BCE, they expanded to include religious and literary texts as well as historical documents (Fiero, 28).

While the Egyptians gave us art in the form of paintings, the Mesopotamians gave us statues. In the shrine ...