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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

changed dramatically. Huxley writes: "In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast o...

readers would be going backward and forward in terms of years. however, it is the concept and theme of civilizations that is prima...

put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...

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

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

woman), the two became inseparable friends/lovers. From that point forth, Gilgamesh never abused his power again. In te...

been treated little better than animals. Islam at least accorded that women may be redeemed and attain a heavenly reward, although...

plights of war ... as the common people devoted themselves to the cult of their rain gods and peacefully tilled their fields {milp...

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

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

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This research paper discusses art and architecture in the ancient Mayan civilization. Three pages in length, two sources are cited...

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...