The Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel was made by Sumerians. The Sumerians tried to build the tower because they wanted to get closer to the heavens and to God. While they were making the tower they said let us make a name for ourselves. In Genesis, it said that God came down see how the city and the tower were doing. Since they only spoke one language, God then went down and started messing up the Sumerian languages so they would get confused and stop building the tower. Then God scattered the people across the earth.
“In Genesis, the tower was never completed”, but it was repaired by Assyrians and later damaged in a civil war. It was restored by Nebuchadnezzar 2 and was destroyed by the Persian king Xerxes. Afterwards Alexander the great cleared the area to rebuild the tower but died. So the tower was never finished. The tower was 295 feet squares wide with seven platforms. The height of the tower is 108 feet. Archeologist found out that the tower was really used for religious reasons.
The real propose of the Tower for the Sumerians was to satisfy the spirit of man. With the tower it was also for trying to share the same glory as God. Also the tower was made of one thing it was bricks. Also the reason the city was named Babel was that God messed up the language so the people struggled to talk to each other. When the Sumerians built the tower of Babel there was only one way up and which were ramps and staircases. The Sumerians were very proud of them selves for building a tower that would bring them closer to the heavens.
Also there are other great towers in the world just like The Tower of Babel. The last thing is that there are a lot more stories on this great tower.

Hieroglyphics and its uses

The Egyptians are responsible for many for our world’s great discoveries found by Archeologists. The great pyramids and sphinxes are findings that the archeologists discovered. One of the most fascinating discoveries out of all the Egyptians creation would be hieroglyphics which comes from the Greek word meaning sacred carving. Hieroglyphics are pictures that represents something for example a boat with its sail up means it is sailing south, and a boat with its sail down means it is sailing north.

Hieroglyphics are rarely seen today but they are displayed in museums for appreciation. Hieroglyphics are not just colorful pictures every drawing has a meaning. There are about 700 symbols found. Hieroglyphics started in Egypt’s first dynasty. There are two other forms of hieroglyphics; Hieratic was a hieroglyphic writing used for listing taxes and recording accounts. The next form is Demotic which was created from Hieratic but was used for administration and business. Scribes learned how to write in hieroglyphics only if their father was a scribe. A scribe is a boy how as educated to write and read hieroglyphics but the school was tough and the teacher believed that that boys ears were on there back. If a boy was not listening the teacher would beat them on the back. It took ten years for a boy to pass the school. Hieroglyphics was ban when Rome ruled over Egypt then hieroglyphics became a lost language.

Hieroglyphics were used for many reasons especially for religious purposes. On a mummy’s coffin there are hieroglyphics telling if the Pharaoh good or evil when he or she was alive. Hieroglyphics were also used for messages. If a Pharaoh owned many areas of land and needs to send a message to the small government that there is a new tax, the Pharaoh could send one of his scribes to write and send that message to the government. The ancient writing of hieroglyphics was also used to record history so if there was important events like the crowning of a new pharaoh, a scribe would write it down so Egypt’s future generations would know of that pharaoh’s crowning. The materials that scribes used to make hieroglyphics were palette of color paints and a brush made of reeds. There was many ways to write out hieroglyphics. One was with a brush and paint. The other way was with a special cylinder that has carvings on it. Then scribes role it in moist clay and then it is a hieroglyphics pallet. Two of the other tools that scribes used to make hieroglyphics were chisel and hammers for stone inscriptions. There was a scribe always next the pharaoh so the scribe could read messages the pharaoh had received. The scribes were very important to the pharaoh because without a scribe the pharaoh would never be able to send or read messages.

In 1799 a great discovery was made by French soldiers, who were rebuilding a fort that was destroyed in a battle. The Rosetta stone was found in a small village called Rosetta. They stumbled upon the Rosetta stone while working. The Rosetta stone contained three scripts. Greek was found at the bottom, Demotic in the middle, and hieroglyphics at the top. The Rosetta stone was a key to translating hieroglyphics into modern day language. The Rosetta stone contained royal names in hieroglyphics. This stone could have recorded all the pharaohs that ruled over Egypt.

Hieroglyphics have many uses to offer especially in Ancient Egypt. Today hieroglyphics offer us to read what happened in the past. From the stories hieroglyphic have shown us hieroglyphics has been one of the most fascinating creations the ancient world has to offer. With this knowledge archeologists have gotten from hieroglyphics they have understand more of the ancient world with very hieroglyphic read.

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Black History Month

Nelson Mandela Biography/ By Joseph Genovese

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Nelson Mandela was born on July 18th in a small South African village to a local chief and his third wife. He was the first person in his family to receive a western education, and was inspired to study law after witnessing the democracy of African tribal governance at an early age. Mandela became a sought after lawyer in Johannesburg. After moving to the village of Qunu, north of Mvezo, he becomes a herd-boy, looking after sheep and cattle, and learns to sling–shot, stick–fight and gathers honey and fruits.

Nelson Mandela is the youngest son of his father's four wives, and the only surviving son. Mandela’s birth name Rolihlahla means, “to pull a branch of a tree” or “troublemaker”. Mandela is named Rolihlahla at birth, given the Western name Nelson at 7 years old by his schoolteacher, then given the name Dalibunga at age 16 after a manhood ceremony, and often referred to as Madiba (the name of his clan) out of respect. There were many musical tributes to Nelson Mandela: The British group Special AKA released “Free Nelson Mandela” in 1984; Senegalese artist Youssou N’Dour released the album Nelson Mandela in 1985; a tribute concert in honor of Mandela’s 70th birthday was held at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1988.Sidney Poitier played Nelson Mandela in the 1997 film “Mandela and De Klerk”. Nelson Mandela's prison number was 46664 — representing that he is the 466th prisoner on Robben Island in 1964.
Nelson Mandela was an avid boxer and would train several times a week at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre (DOCC) in Johannesburg.
Nelson Mandela holds honorary degrees from more than 50 universities around the world.Visit our Award-Winning Celebrating Black History web site and meet 200 famous icons, take an interactive journey through Black History with our timeline which includes photos, videos, quizzes, fast facts and much more! South African statesman and president (1994-99). Born Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18, 1918 in Transkei, South Africa. Mandela's father had four wives and Mandela's mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third. He spent most of his childhood with his mother's family and was the first member to attend school. It was there that a Methodist teacher gave him the name Nelson, finding Rolihlahla too difficult to pronounce. Nelson's father died when he was nine, and the boy was adopted by the Regent Jongintaba and groomed to assume high office. As Thembu royalty, Nelson attended Wesleyan mission school, Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Wesleyan college. He studied at Fort Hare University but was asked to leave after boycotting against university policies. Was important to African American history .

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