Monsoons: For india, monsoons are vital as they provide the much needed moisture for agriculture. The monsoons are significant because they make the Himalayas act like a third pole and variations in there timing could mean floods or famine for India. The monsoons bring moisture from June to …show more content…
The were famous for their creation of the Nazca geoglyphs around 600CE. The villagers of the chiefdom would create large geometrical and animal figures in the dry highlands. The shamans of the age would use the geoglyphs in specific rituals. What makes the geoglyphs so significant is that they are unique to the Andes and they had no parallel until the The Incas arranged sacred objects nearly a millennium later. The Nazca lines were a great …show more content…
The tools for tattooing existed around 50,000 years ago but tattooing seems to be older as human remains from even earlier show evidence of tattooing. The importance of tattooing increased as it’s symbolism become intertwined with identity, often giving information such as rank, position in life, marriage, and profession.
Cuneiform: This writing system was invented around 3450 BCE in Mesopotamia. It’s one of the earliest systems of writing and it’s important because it helped simplify the difficult task of accounting for the distribution of grain, animals, ceramic, textiles, and imported raw materials. The wedge shaped writing on clay tablets is also important because historians could easily clarify the meaning of painted and and sculpted artifact. It started a new era where history cold be recorded. Oracle Bones: The significance of oracle bones lies in the fact that they were inscribed with Shang characters, which were examples of China’s earliest known writing. The standard forms of the symbols were made after the Qin era (221-201BCE) in China. The bones were used by diviners to communicate with the spirit world and get answers to specific