The ancient city of Catal Huyuk is located on the Anatolian plateau near Konya in modern-day Turkey. The site is considered by some to be the location of the world's first city. As one of the earliest settlements to make the transition from a hunter-gatherer to an agrarian society, development began here as early as 7000 B.C.E. Neolithic inhabitants domesticated sheep, goats and other animals as well as cultivating barley, wheat, peas and beans. Obsidian trade was a major commercial boon for the site. The widespread presence of trade goods and materials from the region in the ancient Near and Middle East provides evidence for extensive trade activity in the city. The interiors of residential and religious structures in the site were organized by gender and function differentiation. Clear distinctions between dwellings and shrines were found in the occurrence of vivid and elaborate decoration, including paintings and wall sculptures. Catal Huyuk was abandoned after a fire in about 5700 B.C.E. and the city was never re-established. Archaeological excavation began in the 1960s by James Mellaart and continues today by an international team of archaeologists each summer.
As population size increased, the city developed and grew in outward expanding rings of houses, always retaining their surrounding walls. There is no wide variation in objects of wealth or status in the settlement that would suggest a highly stratified society. No large open public spaces were uncovered in the excavated areas of the site though the population could have reached 6000 inhabitants. Of the more than 150 structures currently excavated at the site, sixty percent are dwellings and the remaining forty percent are shrines. Inhabitants entered the structures through openings in the roof of clay, wood and reeds accessed by wooden ladders laid against the southern walls of the buildings. Sheep, goats, fowl and cattle entered the homes of Catal Huyuk using small doors on the ground level.
Abyssinian is breed of domestic cat, probably of Egyptian origin, that has been considered to approximate the sacred cat of ancient Egypt more closely than any other living cat (Britannica). ... The Abyssinian is an active, intelligent cat that loves people. ... Tonkinese are sociable, fun loving, involved cats. ... All three cats have similar characteristics. ... They are hybrid of other cats. ...
Mostly the people in the ancient Near East region and the people in the bible used sacred history. ... Moses and David are two specific examples of the people who use of sacred history in the bible. Sacred history was an easy way to pass on teachings and lessons to your children and grandchildren. ... This would make the text then sacred history as well. ... Sacred history is different from scientific history for two main reasons. ...
Rather, as Poe's story progresses, the world of "The Black Cat" closes in, decreasing in size from home, to basement, to cell and tomb. ... This cat Pluto (the name comes from the Roman god of the dead), is loving, clingy and somewhat mysterious. ... Almost to spite the man, his house catches fire the very night the cat was hung. ... The narrator, cat and wife descending the stairs into an even more confining space of the cellar. ... In a calculated manner the man puts his wife and cat (unknowingly) into immurement, entombing both of them in the wall. ...
Bierce tells of a city named Sardasa, where all the people in the city all worship cats and the " multiplication and addition of cats were a perpetual instruction in arithmetic." ... The dog and cat fights starts when the wife of the dead dog deodorizer, who sells the only cat meat in town, stops selling cat meat until the townspeople hire her husband. " my mother was as firm as a rock, and the day was a black one for Sardasa, the ancient and sacred city that was the scene of these events. ... (766) The cats then got together in fear of dying from starvation. ... "Midway through town it met...
In "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat," the stories involved murder. ... In "The Black Cat" the murder was quite horrendous as well, only it was instant and very gruesome. ... She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan" (Black Cat 5). ... In "The Black Cat," the narrator was an alcoholic who would get intoxicated and then turn into an abusive human being. ... But to-morrow i die, and to-day i would unburthen my soul" (Black Cat 1). ...
Afterwards, the narrator conceals his wife's corpse, the cat remains unseen for some days and he feels relieved. The narrator gets arrogant and bangs on the wall that contains the corpse of his wife, and without knowledge of where the cat is, he arouses the cat, [who was buried alive with his wife] exposing himself to the police. The tale concludes when the police discover the corpse accompanied by the black cat on her head. ... "The Black Cat " leaves us, such as we are left in life, with many unanswered questions. The cognizance of the cat haunts the narrator, and it did so so much that...
The Evolution of the Cat Introduction Many homes around the world have at least one cat living inside as a pet; in fact many homes have a few cats dwelling in them. ... Cats are soft, sweet, and lovable. ... The Evolution of the Cat It is believed that the modern day domestic cat is a descendent of the larger wild cats. This would place all the cats most people know about like the tiger, lion, jaguar, puma, and friendly house cat into the main genus of cats know as Felius. ... In these cat cemeteries thousands of cats were found and studied. ...
This cat also had a patch over one eye. He decided to bring the cat home to his wife. ... Most critics will agree that the reincarnation of the cat was taking revenge for killing the cat the first time. ... The narrator in "The Black Cat" searched for a reason for why the cat was irritating him, formed by the cat's cut out eye. ... In the black cat the narrator seems to blame his irritation with the cat for his murder. ...
Character Development In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," the narrator goes through a dramatic change in the story. ... He has a pet cat, Pluto, which he loves dearly. ... The narrator was enraged by the cat's reaction that he pulls out his penknife and cuts the cat's eye out. ... One night, at the bar, he finds a cat extremely similar to Pluto and decides to take it home. Before he knows it, he quickly starts to grow loving emotions for the cat. ...
