Change and Continuity in Humanities

Friday, 23 March 2012

Civilisation

Singapore has limited resources and have very little space,the singapore river was made into a storage area for ships before to help the economy of singapore while the money gathered was put in getting better technology for singapore

Landmarks

View Parliament House in a larger map

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At ACM

These carpets have an unique design and is made out of wool. It was used in the homes of the Malay Archipelago. It was weaved carefully by the women in each family. This was one of the first designs of carpet for them. However, most Malay homes have changed to the modern carpet, much comfortable and cheaper. You can still find Malay people who still weave this kind of carpets though.

The Moro blades:The features of a modern blade that differ are the shaping of the waves,and their thickness. While the traditional blade have undulating waves that are forged deep into the blade to penetrate straight to the centerline of the blade. Tourist kris, on the other hand, feature shallow angular waves, that appear to be cut out of the steel rather than forged into the blade. Also, in order to stand to the rigors of combat, traditional kris are quite thick at the gangya, often approaching half an inch in thickness. However, to maintain its balance, traditional kris distally tapers becoming thinner near the tip. Tourist kris, generally are made of much thinner material, and are of uniform thickness lacking distal taper. This leads to the flimsy and unwieldy nature of many tourist kris.

The garuda crown :It was a crown which represented royal authority and has not changed
over time.

The Singapore River

As we walk along the Singapore River to the Ancient Civilizations Museum, we saw steps on the other side of the Singapore River. This shows that many boats were used to possibly travel on this river. As the river is not big enough for bug ships to pass through, the unloading of the goods from trading could have happened by transporting them via kayaks and canoes. The second photo shows a boat with tourists. The side of the river is now crowded with restaurants and is a popular tourist destination. Last time, it was crowded with businessmen trying to trade goods and kayaks were everywhere around the river. This was a port.

The Singapore River has many boats moving most of the time.Because of this and because of the water current erosion will take place and slowly the course of the river can change.