Going High: The early pioneers

From the beginning of time, humans always had a crazy want to go in high altitude. Sadly for most of the first pioneers hiking in high altitude was a deathly choice and many of them died of mountain sickness. Even dough every civilization had really interesting interpretation and/or observations about this deathly sickness.

The  first signs of pioneers in early civilizations were Icemans skeletons in the Alps at 10 000 feet between Italy and Austria. It looks as though they died in a storm 5000 years ago.  A  funny belief that Xuan Zang in the 7^th century,  thought that if you were dressed in red or carried gourds will hiking in the mountain, you would get attacked by a fierce dragon. In 1590, a Spanish Jesuit, Jose Acosta, wrote down his observation on mountain sickness, while crossing the Andes. Surprisingly in 1850  people thought that high altitude ( in balloons) was actually healthy and quickened the brain, so it was very good some for invalids. But of all of those, the best and truest observation was made in 1862, by a balloonist called Sir James Asher, whom flew “About as high as the summit of Everest” “And ascended until he became unconscious”

As you can see there has always been victims and theories on Mountain Sickness. And even though now we have quite a good idea on how deathly it can be, some humans still have the desire to achieve the impossible and climb the Everest, the highest pick in the world

14/05/2012,

Helene Le Roux,

Humanities,

Ms Moore,

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The Lost City of Mohenjo Daro

4500 years ago, in our Day Pakistan was a city called Mohenjo Daro. It was positioned very intelligently next to the Indus river and on elevated ground. Archeologists found many hints that shows that this city was very developed, first it had advanced water drainage system, which made that "nearly every house had a wail and bathing area" .As the disposition of each monument was very organized and precise, with houses and workshops one one side, on the other side were the public buildings and on the highest point of the city was the fortress or citadel that was used as a storage room. "The city's wealth and stature is evident in artifacts such as ivory, lapis, carnelian, and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick city structures themselves" . It was not only rich and elaborate, it was also huge, 100 hectares and about 350 000 people! According to archeologist Jonathan Mark Kennoyer, the city might have been used as a center of trade.

Surprisingly the city's ruins did not show any trace of kings or queens which might make us think that their ruler was elected.

Sadly for an unknown reason, in 2000 Bc the city was almost totally abandoned until the Aryans, a population of warriors and herders, came and took over the Lost City of Mhenjo Daro. ( between 2000 B.C and 1500 Bc)

Bibliography

Roach, Jhon. "Lost City of Mohenjo Daro." National Geographic. N.p., 13 May 2012. Web. 13 May 2012. <http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/ archaeology/mohenjo-daro/>.

Enheduana of Sumer

Enheduanna was the first author that ever existed, she wrote 42 poems in totall. She was the daughter of king Sargon, a farm boy that had raised to power. In inverse to her 2 younger brothers she was very talented and when she grew into a teenager she was sent to Ur, the most sacred city of summer. She soon became a very important high priestess of the god of the moon. She lived in the highest room of the Zigurat, so she could stay close to the gods. She organized a lot of religious ceremonies, and an exeptionaly big one for new year. During her freetime she wrote poems, but not on paper, on clay tablets, she was a very popular writter at her time, archaeologists were able to find more than 50 of her same work. She was a priestess for 25 years, sadly, when her nephew became king, we suppose that she finished her life in exhile in the desert.

Site: Leon, Vicki. "Enheduana of Sumer." Women of Ancient Times. By Vicki Leon. New York: Hold, 2010. 
49-53. Print.

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