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=St. Basil's Cathedral=



====St. Basil's Cathedral is a cathedral located in Moscow, Russia. It was originally named the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat. It was named this because it was built to remember the capture of the Tartar stronghold of Kazan which occurred in 1552. That event happened on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. That feast is the most important feast of Russia's Twelve Great Feasts. The cathedral was ordered by Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, and it was built from 1555 to 1561. The cathedral was widely know as St. Basil's Cathedral from the beginning because St. Basil really impressed Ivan. The Cathedral marks the geometric center of Moscow. The original building was known as Trinity Church, and had eight side churches arranged around another church. A tenth church was later built to house the grave of St. Basil. The cathedral was built to look like a bonfire in the sky. No one knows who the architect of the cathedral was but the legend is that Ivan had him blinded so he was not able to ever make a masterpiece like it anywhere else. ==== = = = = = = = = =Pythagoras=

I chose Pythagoras. He interested me after seeing that multiple people had been looking at him as if they were copying him. Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, Mathematician, and the founder of his own religion named Pythagoreanism. He created the Pythagorean Theorem which is still widely used in math today. Pythagoras taught many things from math to music theory, modern science, and philosophy. If I could chose another person to be in The School of Athens painting, I would probably chose Sr. Isaac Newton. He was an old English physicist and Mathematician. He came up with the idea of gravity and even was able to prove it. Sir Isaac Newton had a very big impact on the people of his time just like everyone who was in the School of Athens painting. Great suggestion. -SW = = = = =Unit 2 Primary Source: Tlaloc= Tlaloc was the god of rain, fertility, and water to the Aztecs. He was one of the most important gods to the Aztecs. He controlled the crop growth and the regular cycle of the seasons. He supposedly either lived high up in the mountains, caves and or springs. One of the two most important shrines to the Aztecs is dedicated to Tlaloc. That shrine is located at the top of the Great Temple. Tlaloc was greatly praised but also strongly feared by the Aztec people. He could send out the rain or cause droughts which would kill the Aztec crops. He could hurl lightning down to the people or even unleash hurricanes. He also caused certain diseases like leprosy, dropsy and rheumatism. Those who died by these diseases or other events caused by him were buried instead of the traditional cremation, and said to live an eternal life with him in his paradise, Tlalocan. For these reasons he was both highly feared and praised which made him a very important god in their time.

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Borobudur is a famous Buddhist temple located in Central Java, Indonesia. Borobudur consists of six square platforms stacked on top of one another topped with three circular platforms. The monument is shaped to look like a lotus, which is the sacred flower of the Buddha. The temple is highly decorated with 2,672 reliefs and 504 Buddha statues. At the very top is the main dome which is surrounded by 72 Buddhas. Borobudur was used as a temple from when it was constructed until it was abandoned. No one knows exactly when or why it was abandoned but it was likely abandoned by 1500 when power had shifted to the Eastern Java. Since its abandonment Borobudur was covered by volcanic ash and lush vegetation. In the early 19th century the monument was discovered by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the British Governor of Java. Some of Borobudur started to decay and some villagers came to the monument and took pieces of it for building material. Collectors also took heads of Buddhas to sell and use as collector items. In 1968 UNESCO set up a campaign to save Borobudur and Borobudur was mostly restored. There is no record written of when Borobudur was constructed or who constructed it. Best guess is around 800 CE when the Sailendra Dynasty was at its peak in Central Java. It was most likely created under the reign of Samaratungga, who was the ruler during that time. Borobudur was most likely used as the spiritual centre of Buddhism in Java.

(reliefs carved into Borobudur)

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Code of Hammurabi


After learning about the code of Hammurabi I was interested in reading more about it.The code of Hammurabi was a set of 281 laws that King Hammurabi wrote down for his kingdom to follow. It is numbered from 1 to 282 but number 13 is skipped because it was considered an evil number. The laws very from mild to extreme compared to today's laws in the United States.

King Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon at the time, which is located in present day Iraq. In his palace he ordered an 8 foot tall stela (a large slab of __#|wood__ or stone) to be engraved with his laws. Each law was written in Cuneiform which was their form of writing. On the top of the stela was a carving of Hammurabi bowing to Shamesh, the sun god.

Many of Hammurabi's laws went as far as killing a person for doing something not very serious. One law states that if you break in to a house you will be put to death. I believe that it is a very harsh law. Most of Hammurabi's laws were based off of a harshness like "an eye for and eye a tooth for a tooth." So basically if you do something bad to a person the same thing or worse should happen to you. The code of Hammurabi was one of the first code of laws ever written down.

Hello Jack. I like your topic and I am also fascinated by it. Do you think Hammurabi's laws are too harsh? For today, yes. But what about for their time? Dude - SG