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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...

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...

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...

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...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

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

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...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

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...

Classical Literature Compared

as revealed in the literary/mythological writings of ancient Greece. In "The Iliad," for example, when the mighty warrior Achille...

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...

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 ...

ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE: CLASSICAL VS MODERN VIEWS

obtaining a bank loan. What follows is a literature review and analysis about classical and modern theories about venture c...

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...

Chaim Potok's "Wanderings" - Classical and Modern Paganism

then, was something of a departure, venturing into historical territory. However, Potok carefully planned the work for a period of...

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 ...

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...

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...

Ancient Artworks

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

Classical Conditioning

their salivary glands and what response it had when food was presented. Naturally, he quickly discovered that each time he brought...

Egyptian Literature, Indus Valley, and Feudalism

that they were very connected as well. It is also important to note that any works which have survived the ages do not even begin ...

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...

Figurines of Ancient Mycenae

This research paper discusses the figurines produced in ancient Mycenaean civilization and their possible uses, including the inte...

Spartan Civilization

Lakedaimon, a king himself, named his country after himself. The capital of that country he named after his wife. Lacedaemon, of...

Jared Diamond: “Collapse”

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

Three Historical Points

found seems to be religious in intent, but no one is sure (Swanson, 1998). The civilization reached its height in about 2500 BC an...