Time Zones!!

Time Zones

Year:one revolution around the sun

Day:One complete rotation on it,s axis

A.M:Ante meridian,before the meridian

P.M:Post meridian ,after the meridian

G.M.T:Greenwich mean time

U.T:Universal time
 We,re going to answer this questions 

-How many time zones divide the earth¿?

The earth is divide in 24 time zones
-What is the distance(in degrees) between time zones¿?
The distance between one time zone to another is 15 seconds longtitudes
-What is the name of the city where we can find the prime meridian¿? -What is it longitud¿?
-Travels trought greenwich England and the longitud  is 180 degrees oposite the international datetime
 

                           EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

The legend of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was half god and half human.He was bored and the gods saw him and they send to him a friend,first they had a bad impression but after they became very friends and they travel around the world.

Gods of ancient Mesopotamia
Tiamat:The primordial dragon goddes of creative chaos
She lived happily in the salt water below the mists of time,joined by aspu ,the wettest water god ever.







Ishtar:Sky goddes of sex ,fertility love and war.
 She's a feisty no-nonsense Goddess  and also the Evening Star with eight points. All of them good. Extremely popular.









                             
                             Enki:Highly sexed beer loving sumerian creator god.
He was the first Sumerian deity to discover sex  while he was in his bath.

 

Marduk:Top babyloniam deity, fertility god and supreme hole leader.As the boss of Babylon and custodian of the Tablets of Destiny  was definitely a force to be reckoned with. Until he was stolen by Assyrians  causing a lot of aggravation with failed harvests and war. 

Apsu: God of sweet waters and the heavenly oceans of Wisdom.In the beginning this primordial deity encircled the Earth and filled it with optimistic goodness. 

Gilgamesh:Famous Sumerian and Akkadian Hero who was two thirds God, or was it one third?  

 

Nergal:A bit of a bully in bull form, with lots of bellowing, roaring and raping.

Anu: Top Sky God, Lord of Heaven and Supreme Manager of all the other Gods

 Inanna:Fabulous Goddess of Words, Language, Syntax and Meaning

It's all writing, innit? Having peeked at the Tablets of Destiny , she is an expert at persuasive nam-shub bery
  




 



Kingu:Dragon-god consort of tiamat before it all went horribly wrong
 
 

 

 

 

 

Zigurats

Zigurats: were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotaminavalley and western Iranian plateu, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

 Ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians and Assyrians for local religions. Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.

  

The Babylonian Empire

 Babylonia: was an ancient Akkadian speaking Semetic nation state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia.

 

 

 

                                PREHISTORIC ART

Characteristics:

a)The earliest forms of prehistoric art are extremely primitive.
 The lifestyles depend on hunting and foraging for food or later on pastoral agriculture.It is posible  that eearlier  people might  have decorated theire bodies and clothes or marked trees of featured in the landscape.but,if they did evidence of that art has not survived.

European cave and rockc art:

The cave and rock art of the later Old Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic is especially famous and has certain particular characteristics.In these oldersites, large pictures of animals are only rarely associated with human figures, whereas in more numerous. 

Animal association vary but compositions  including particular pairs of animals ,such as bison and horses in europe  or elephants and girafes in Africa,are known.On both continents mythical beasts including half animal, half human creatures are occasionally depicted. Portraits of people are rare and landscapes, plants, fruit, and flowers are unknown. 

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                          THE RIVER DANUBE

The river Danube has a surface of approximately 725.985 km ². The Danube crosses Europe from west to east.The river and his course includes parts of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia and Ukraine. The basin of the Danube spreads in addition over the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

Approximately 60 of his 300 tributaries are navigable.

It is the Europe's  second longest river, after the Volga. It is born in the Black Jungle of Germany,with the union of two small rivers, the Brigach and the Breg.
It is navigable, raising the current from the Black Sea, for ships Transatlantic up to Bräila (Romania) and for fluvial crafts up to the city of Ulm (Germany), to a distance of approximately 2.575 km.

The Danube flows through important cities as Ulm, Ingolstadt and Regensburg in Germany; Linz and Vienna in Austria; Bratislava in Slovakia; Budapest.

	Length(Km)	Right side		Both sides		Left side
Country		km	%	km	%	km	%
Germany	687,00	658,6	23	658,6	36	687,0	24
Austria	357,50	357,5	12	321,5	18	321,5	11
Slovakia	172,06	22,5	1	22,5	1	172,1	6
Hungary	417,20	417,2	14	275,2	15	275,2	10
Croatia	137,50	137,5	5	0,0	0	0,0	0
Serbia	587,35	449,9	16	220,5	12	358,0	12
Romania	1.075,00	374,1	13	319,6	18	1.020,5	35
Bulgaria	471,55	471,6	16	0,0	0	0,0	0
Moldavia	0,57	0,0	0	0,0	0	0,6	0
Ukraine	53,94	0,0	0	0,0	0	53,9	2