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Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

The Franks

of the empire; Christianity. In light of this it appears as though the Franks worked towards a relationship with the papal power...

Greek, Mycenaean and Minoan Civilization

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

The Importance of Astronomy and Galileo to Western Civilization

astronomers attempts to describe the motion of all heavenly bodies, including the earth. It was Galileos discoveries that are ofte...

The Impact of Geography on the Development of City-States in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

Civilizations and Conflicts

traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globa...

Various Historical Discussions

A surplus of economic wealth that leads to a division of labor means that certain social classes typically perform different jobs ...

Medieval Times: The West and Islam

examination of this there is a letter written by Leo III to Umar II which states the following: "In brief you admit that we say th...

Augustus, Alexander, Pericles and Western Civilization

excellent sense of humor" that made him popular with his troops (Syvertsen). His values and character, and his rapid conquest of m...

A Review of David Christian's Article, 'Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History'

This paper discusses in 5 pages the notion that silk roads represent broad terms in world history not just in terms of civilizati...

The Natural and the Artefactual by Keekok Lee

In five pages this essay examines this philosophical text in terms of how it portrays the correlation between the natural world an...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

their conquerors. History By 3000 B.C. a flourishing urban civilization existed. Sumerian civilization was predominantly agricult...

New Designs from Ancient Forms

Originally, there were fifty-eight columns: seventeen on the sides, eight at each end, and six in the inner row of each porch. Th...

Swahili and Islam

In five pages this paper considers the historical relationship between the Islamic religion and the east coast African civilizatio...

Numbers

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the development of numbers systems in the civilizations of Europe, China, Mesopotamia, Sout...

Freud and Hard Times

In five pages the conduct of James Harthouse and Louisa Bounderby in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens is analyzed based upo...

Five Decades of Western Civilization Photography and Its Impact

In six pages this paper assesses the impact of photography on Western civilization over the past 5 decades. Five sources are cite...

An Analysis of How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

This paper discusses this famous work and draws parallels between it and the textbook Western civilization by Noble. This paper h...

Indus Valley's Important Developments

In five pages this paper examines the 5000 to 1900 B.C. Indus Valley civilization in an overview of its important developments reg...

Demise of the Prehistoric Harappan Culture

of more recent discoveries. The Aryan invasion theory is one of the most popular theories that attempts to explain what happene...

Reviewing All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

In six pages different plot perspectives based on readers ages are explored as comparisons are made with Huckleberry Finn and disc...

Western Civilization and the Industrial Revolution

own manner has been an accompanying difficulty. The Industrial Revolution dispelled many of the same restrictions that occurred s...

Industrial Revolution's Impacts Upon the 18th Century

In six pages this paper examines how Western civilization of the 18th century was affected by the Industrial Revolution. Three so...

Aztec Calendar or 'Sun Stone'

of the Aztecs (Nahuatl), it is called the tonalpohualli simply meaning the "day-count." The tonalpohualli and the xiuhpohualli c...

Perspective Comparisons of Western Civilization A Brief History by Marvin Perry and Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

of a standard basis that is typically found in western civilization textbooks. Believing that man is a selfish being who has limi...

Jackson J. Spielvogel on the French Revolution

In five pages this paper examines the French Revolution and its definitive traditions of revolution, reform, and restoration as co...

The True Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness, the seminal masterpiece by Joseph Conrad, is a study in cruelty and the degeneration of man into beast as the t...

Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Their Lasting Contributions to Civilization

In ten pages this paper examines the ancient Greeks and Romans in terms of their enduring contributions to Western civilization ar...

Social Paradigm for Change Represented by the Scientific Revolution

1991). This invention meant that new ideas could be readily shared, and also, that it was much more difficult to the Church to c...