Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World
the child. With the mother alive, wet-nursing seems to have been less common, though the fact that some wet-nursing contracts su ...
were frequently slaughtered by the thousands by victorious armies; in India and southern Asia poor families oft en sold their ch ...
survived infancy, another third died by the age of 10. Th is was true throughout Europe. European children lived with their exte ...
exposure of infants; the most famous infant to be saved from this fate was Oedipus, the hero of Sophocles’ trilogy of plays that ...
training for young boys. Girls married in their teens and were considered adults at that point. Many girls conducted rituals on ...
called a bulla, a chain with a pouch containing protective amulets. Boys became adults in a ceremony conducted at the age of 16, ...
profi le. Th ere is such evidence in the region of the Andes. Th e distinctive results of skull compression could signal the bea ...
My son, if it be the wish of a ruler that you belong to him, if you are entrusted with his closely guarded seal, open his treasu ...
time we set him to recite some childish piece; he sifts it out like water through a crack, “Apollo”—pause,— then “hunter!” [Th e ...
FURTHER READING Traci Ardren and Scott R. Hutson, Th e Social Experience of Child- hood in Ancient Mesoamerica (Boulder: Univers ...
the biggest settlements in their part of the world, might not qualify as cities. The large communities of the Maya (600 b.c.e.–1 ...
favorable agricultural conditions or where opportunities for exploiting local, regional, and international trade networks existe ...
NOTABLE EARLY AFRICAN CITIES Ancient African cities are oft en diffi cult to locate by modern archaeologists, given the propensi ...
such monuments built with dry stone. In additional to their tremendous size and craft smanship, they represent a remark- able en ...
and environment would remain an integral part of the new urban complexes, serving essentially as extensions of the towns. In fac ...
Egypt. Th e city also sat at the meeting points between the Nile Delta and the Nile River valley, making it a good mar- ketplace ...
One of the best-known workers’ villages of ancient Egypt is the village of Deir el-Medina, where workers on the Th eban royal to ...
THE ROYAL CITIES By the time of the New Kingdom onward, most of the special- ized towns or cities had been linked via geography ...
generous king, Mouseion, wine, all the good things you may desire, and women more numerous than heavenly stars who could compete ...
cient Near East, which were primarily ritual centers with a religious and ceremonial function, and not major economic magnets of ...
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