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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

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

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 ...

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

In five pages this paper discusses how the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia achieved cultural expansion thr...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the democracy perspectives of Cyril Lionel Robert James and Alexis de Tocqueville...

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

The architectural designs known as agoras or public squares as they existed in Rome and Greece are compared in terms of structures...

In four pages historians such as Jacques Gernet are consulted in this consideration of Chinese civilization in a discussion of its...

The writer reviews the D. Keightly book Shang & Zhou Dynasties, which provides an analysis of the Chinese civilization includi...

In six pages this research paper focuses on Mexico's impressive ancient Mayan civilization. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

In ten pages the causes of the collapse of the Mayan civilization is examined in terms of causes with drought and warfare receivin...

In ten pages the island of Cyprus is examined in terms of its ancient culture and civilization. Twelve sources are cited in the b...

on the abundance of such a worthwhile precious metal. "Theres just no way to get around it. Silver in Mesopotamia functions like...

In nine pages this paper compares how the 'cradle of civilization' was represented by the ancient cultures of Egypt and Mesopotami...

In ten pages this paper considers these concepts according to Freud's psychoanalysis as represented in Freud's account of Dora and...

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

In five pages J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians is considered in terms of civilization concepts as revealed by the charact...

This essay consisting of eight pages evaluates the ways in which this good man is destroyed by the civilization that refuses to ac...

French writers Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon are seminal philosophers in the empowerment of minority populations. This research...

In a paper containing five pages the continued relevance of Toffler's 1970 text is considered in terms of the changes civilization...

This research paper consisting of four pages considers the parallels that exist between these two civilizations with politics, eco...