Persepolis House Building

Warm air and the sickly sweet smell of the swooning cherry blossom trees. This is the place where I grew up, where I took my first steps, said my first words, and had my first haircut. As much as I hate small towns, without growing up in Madison I don’t know where or what I would be doing right now. In both books The House on Mango Street and Persepolis the main characters had to deal with growing up in a slightly damaged society but they managed to push past it, just like everyone else who has struggled with a past but not brave enough to write it down.

At important doorways of the palace including the Throne Room, located immediately south of the Outer Court of the palace, stood pairs of powerful mythological creatures known as lamassu (Gates, 170-171). The lamassu of Ashurnasirpal’s Northwest palace were enormous, stone-carved sculptures with the head of a human and displayed animal-like features including the wings of a bird and the body of a bull. The human head symbolized intellect, the wings symbolized speed, and the body symbolized strength. Witnessing the creation of the lamassu firsthand, would have been truly spectacular. The intricate details carved on the lamassu from the beard hair to the feathers must have been painstaking and time-consuming work for the sculptors. The placement of the completed lamassu at the palace doorways was very crucial since they provided divine protection against the chaos of the outside world. In addition, they served the purpose of symbolizing Ashurnasirpal’s dominance over all who entered his palace by their immense size and

Relief sculptures can be found inside the palace above the arched walkways and in the chapel (Perouse de Montclos 285). In the salon of war an equestrian relief sculpture is place above the fireplace (Perouse de Montclos 239). The palace has an abundance of sculpture to connecting it to classical culture.

Just before you go to sleep, you image yourself taking a ride to the White House. You then notice it's beautiful columns. As you look through columns, this type of architecture is ancient Greek. There are other place to find these Greek columns. Besides architecture, other developments from ancient civilizations have an impact on our world today, such as roads and Gregorian calendar.

This is proof of the Sumerian architectural abilities. The architecture in Mesopotamia are considered to have been contemporary with the founding of the Sumerian cities, but there was some complexity in the architectural design during this Protoliterate period (c. 3400-c. 2900 BC). This is shown in the design of many religious buildings. Typical temples of the Protoliterate period--both the platform type and the type built at ground level--are, however, much more elaborate both in planning and ornament. The interior was decorated with cones sunk into the wall, covered in bronze. Most cities were simple in structure, but the ziggurat was one of the world's first complex architectural structures.

Some of these workers may have been prisoners of war brought to the center of the empire to work on construction projects, maintain and expand the irrigation network, and farm the royal estates. on certain occasions the kings returned to one special place back in the homeland. Darius began construction of a ceremonial capital at Persepolis (An artificial platform was erected, and on it were built a series of palaces, audience halls, treasury buildings, and barracks.

Have you ever been in a situation where your family couldn’t provide that much for education? Are you influenced by anyone that’s older than you? Marjane lives in Iran, where most of the revolution war between Iran and Iraq occurs. There’s a lot of discrimination that happens there for equal rights towards women. Marjane comes from a really wealthy family and they took this women away from her family when she was little to be there maid. Esperanza lives in Chicago where she wanted to become a writer. There is six people living in one bedroom with one bathroom, Esperanza is poor so her parents can only afford a little. Even though Esperanza knows that she doesn’t have much she tries to make the best of it. In Persepolis and the House On Mango Street, both characters are influenced by someone older than them, they want to help their family, and they both have trouble in school.

The great Minoan civilization of Crete formed around palaces such as those at Knossos, Phaestus, Ayia Triada, and Tyliossos. The extremely important Palace of Minos at Knossos gives us crucial evidence of a continuous architectural brilliance and highly developed artistic sense, bringing together all aspects of architectural style, art, and innovation during the Minoan period between 1700 BCE and 1580 BCE and continuing until the invasion of the Achaeans in the 12th century BCE (Britannica Encyclopedia). The most famous palace is the palace of Minos of Knossos which demonstrates a specific arrangement of blocks:

He constructed the Abu Simbel, the Mortuary Temple Ramesseum, Pi-Ramesses, Temple at Karnak and many more. The Temple of Ramses II or the Abu Simbel, was a great accomplishment. Ramses included four statues of himself outside of this temple. These statues were carved from rock. Inside this accomplishment there are three halls that led oneself to the temples main room. Inside this magical room there are three statues of goddesses and Ramses the Great. Ramses built the temple so that twice a year the sun would align with the entrance. The Mortuary temple Ramesseum was made to be “Home of the King” after his death. This is where the kings’ body was to be held and was in great honor of the god Amun. This temple is larger than most other pharaohs temples are/were. The gateways of this temple were made from stone while many other temples gateways are made from mud brick. Some say this was to make the temple stand out showing that Ramses was the Greatest. Ramses two best architects, known as Penre and Amenemone, helped construct many rooms and even the structure of the building. This took about twenty-two years to build. The outside of this building was covered with decorations proving his love for the gods. Ramses the Great often incorporated the gods in his temples. There are a few decorations Ramses included honoring the battle of Kadesh, which he came to an agreement with the Hittites to sign a peace treaty. Ramses had a statue in the center of this temple that was formed from granite and was over twenty meters high. He named this marvelous statue, “Ramses, the sun of Foreign Sovereigns”. Ramses also made a metropolis. This was known as the Pi-Ramesse or “House of Ramesses, Great of Victories”. Ramses did not complete the building of the city until about twenty years after being crowned king. Ramses moved his city because it was said that he had family in Delta. This religious city was actually one of the biggest

Persepolis, built in 550 BC by Achaemenid King Darius ‘the great’, was known in its day as the richest city under the sun. The capital of the largest empire the world had ever seen, it was built on an immense half-artificial, half-natural terrace, where the King created an impressive palace complex. The importance and quality of the monumental ruins make it a unique archaeological site.

This virgin site is 180 miles away. Amenhotep wanted his city build immediately, so he can move right in. Amenhotep’s impatience challenged his engineers to invent a new way to build faster, the engineers responded with a pioneering breakthrough. Small limestone blocks cut into a standard size that could be easily carried and stacked. The blocks called talatats, by archaeologists, were an ancient precursor to today’s prefabricated building materials. The talatats were very useful and that it was very quick to put up a building. The talatat measured about 20 1/2 inches long by 10 1/4 deep by 9 1/2 high (26 x 52 x 24 cm) and weighing about 120 pounds. With the talatats, you did not have huge group of laborers pulling large blocks, it was much easier to have a large number of people each carrying one block and just use the blocks as bricks. The design of the city itself was equally ground breaking. Amarna covered 24 square miles, running 8 miles along the east side of the Nile, and 3 miles inland. Its layout, with radiate from the royal tomb like sun rays emanating from a Pharaoh’s spirit. A wide royal road that ran parallel to the river, linking the central city to the palaces and

In approximately 450 BC Athens’ premier statesman, Pericles, initiated a program of works designed to embellish his city in order to demonstrate the superiority of the city of Athens3. This crowing achievement of this program was The Parthenon, supervised by Pheidias3. It was built on the Acropolis; a mass of rock sharply rising out of the plain around Athens. The Parthenon is a replacement for an unfinished earlier temple that was destroyed by the Persians; the archaic remains of this were partially used to construct this magnificent building. The construction began in about 447 BC and was completed by 432 BC3. The three major elements forming the sculpted ornament on The Parthenon consists of the metopes, pediments, and the frieze. While

They were decorated with different kinds foreign and domestic woods, metals, and precious stones from places he conquered or travelled to. I potentially believe that he did the halls to drive home that he is wealthy and to pay homage to himself. Emperor Ashurnasirpal also decided to use technologic innovations which included digging a canal, providing irrigation to a region that stood to benefit from it, and planted fruit trees on the outskirts of Calah to help with domestic relations. Those people were probably less likely to rebel since he had given them basis for life, food and water, and helping increase trade with the canal. The emperor also employed a few other tactics to help

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The temple of Hera at Olympia, built about 600 BCE, had wooden columns that were gradually replaced by stone ones, probably as votive gifts. The variety of column and capital shapes illustrates the evolution of the Doric order. The earliest columns had a heavy, bulging profile, and their capitals were broad and low. During the archaic period, limestone became the standard building material for foundations, steps, walls, columns, and Doric entablature. Building such as the famous Temple of Aphaia on Aegina illustrate the dramatic influence of the Doric order.