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Civilizations and Conflicts

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Classical civilizations

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Swahili and Islam

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

Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Crete

encouraged their initial growth and continued development overtime, which also served to contribute to their unique characters. I...

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...

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...

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...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

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

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The writer argues that in Fahrenheit 451, the burning of the books symbolizes the end of civilization. The writer uses the perspec...

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...

Western Civilization Evolution

progressed spiritually. Additionally, when comparing centuries, another thing to look at is the distribution of world power. In th...

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...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and the Concepts of Barbarism and Civilization

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how civilization and primitivism are presented in this final play by William Shak...

Overview and Description of the Silk Road

a "road," it can be argued that the Silk Road was the first information highway (Agnew; Jinski 40). This is because the various ...