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Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

American Impacts of the Inca and Maya Cultures

the reverence toward their higher being, as well as their basic concept of lifes political journey, spoke to the "humble attentive...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

Rome's Engineering and Law Contributions to the West

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

Rewrting Western Civilization and Artistic Liberty of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and 'Das Liebeskonzil'

construct of war from one in which emotions such as love have the power to overwhelm the realities of death and dying which surrou...

Heroism and Primitivism in Character Studies of Gilgamesh and Enkidu

combat and claiming the right to sleep with any woman before her marriage" (Sparknotes). While Gilgamesh is handsome if not beauti...

Religious Experience of the French Revolution

to further examine the statement, however, we must also look at the conditions experienced by the people, experiences which would ...

Spartan Civilization

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

Agriculture and Mesopotamia

fertile lands coupled with the ability to utilize the discovery or creation of irrigation. One author notes, "It was the two river...

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...

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...

Classical civilizations

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

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...

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...

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...

The Franks

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

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...

Counseling Ethnic Minorities

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

The Crusades

2005). As tensions grew and fears increased, on the part of Christians, the Pope took action and in 1095 he essentially demanded...

Pivotal Historical Point of the 1789 French Revolution

so deplorable a condition as it did in France under the reigns of the last three Bourbon kings, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI ...

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...

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...

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...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

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 ...

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...

Analysis of Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

In five pages the human psyche and how it is affected by the creation of civilization are discussed in this analysis of Sigmund Fr...

Classical History Preservation and the Role of Ireland

In five pages this paper examines the role of Ireland in preserving classical history in a comparative analysis of How the Irish S...