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Musical and Artistic Influences of African Americans

In five pages this research paper considers how music and artistic influences of African Americans have been significant since the...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Individual and Social Order According to Sigmund Freud

is less than advantageous for the individual. In better understanding this element, or connection, we present the following excerp...

Number 0 and its History

Mesopotamia is that cultural region which existed in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers during ancient tim...

Lines 2860-2879 of Beowulf

lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...

Pre Columbian Inca and Maya Civilizations

as the first culture in the New World to keep historical records in written form from 50 BC until the Spanish conquest in the 1500...

How Pre History Shaped America

way, no fast food restaurants and no local Wal-Mart supplying Coleman stoves sleeping bags. Those first adventuresome souls to tr...

The Influences of the Near East and Egypt on Minoan Civilization

In a paper of five pages, the writer focuses on the question of how much influence the Near East and Egypt had on the progress in ...

Ancient Artworks

deal about the civilization that created it. This paper discusses three antiquities found at the Art Institute in Chicago, and wha...

The Collapse of the Maya Society

that were once great and in some cases spanned the globe no longer exist. The Roman Empire was feared throughout the known world o...

The Greeks and Romans and the Creation of Western Civilization

the head of the Persian Gulf" (Poiycratis, 1991). But even Alexander couldnt stop history and another power was rising in the regi...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

Medieval Civilization and Christianity

In six pages Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' 'Beowulf,' 'Song of Roland,' and Augustine's 'Confessions' are examined in terms of gaining ...

Comparing Huntingdon and Fukuyama in the Post 9/11 Environment

west to spread democracy and aid in economic modernization are making the situation worse as these are related to the differences ...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

Civilization Collapses and Transformations

Toynebee (1935, p5) describes breakdowns in civilizations as failures of those civilizations to ascend from the stage of primitive...