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    Agriculture is the foundation from which civilization started from. If we did not have agriculture we would still be wandering around hunting small game and gathering anything edible that we might find. We would also have a very low population rate because we would not be able to stalk prey with a lot of people and we would have to kill more animals then there would be to survive. There is something good about not having agriculture. We would not have made so much pollution and the hole in the ozone

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    Civilization is an immensely useful tool for studying history. The reasons are myriad and complex however a few stand out in particular. Civilization is a characterized by the presence of three basic institutions: a ceremonial center (a formal gathering place for social and cultural activities)‚ a system of writing‚ and a city. Implied by the presence of these institutions is the existence of the Civilization’s language‚ culture‚ social practices and economic power. Due to the immense density of

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    OF MAYA CIVILIZATION DUE TO ENVIROMENTAL FACTORS. The collapse of the Maya civilization was a result of environmental factors which eventually led to warfare as a way of coming up with solutions to avoid the inevitable collapse of this civilization. Environmental factors like over population‚ agricultural scarcities‚ disease‚ natural disasters‚ were the major factors for the collapse of the Maya civilization. Judging

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    Chapter 1 Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East 1) The earliest prehuman species thus far discovered is called A) Homo sapiens. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo habilis. D) Neanderthal man. E) Homo erectus. Answer: B Page Ref: 4 2) The first use of fire is attributed to A) Homo habilis. B) Cro-Magnon man. C) Neanderthal man. D) Australopithecus. E) Homo erectus. Answer: E Page Ref: 4 3) Neanderthal man lived primarily in A) North America. B) Europe. C) Arabia D)

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    The earliest Greek philosophy was established on the island of Crete‚ not far from the mainland of Peloponnesus and Sparta .The Law Code of Gortyn was written in approximately 450 BCE‚ nearly thirteen hundred years after the Code of Hammurabi. Although the Code of Hammurabi was a document referred to for criminal law and procedure‚ Law Code of Gortyn gives insight on what relations and Greek traditions rather than actual law . Law Code of Gortyn is the largest document displaying the law of the

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    happening all the time. It is indeed amazing to think that‚ as I have said before‚ all of these events relate directly back to that first person who gave up chasing wild animals and started a farm‚ creating the first village‚ and eventually‚ the first civilization. These simple things developed‚ over time‚ into the many advances which hold such an important part of our lives. Their religions‚ governments‚ as well as social ideas and achievements are still used today‚ of course not in the same form‚ but

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    Early civilizations formed years and years back. Two of these civilizations include ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia. The mentioned societies had such advancements that people in their time did not really have. Since the regions were near each other‚ they obtained many ideas from one another. Though they had similar ideas‚ there were also differences. These similarities and differences included topics in culture‚ economy‚ and government and politics. One of the major similarities both Egypt

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    The Mediterranean Sea is home to many great civilizations in our early history. Unlike the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations‚ there is one Mediterranean civilization that did not have a land centric empire. The Phoenicians are the first civilization to create a long distance sea trading network in the ancient Mediterranean world. This trading network is significant in ancient Mediterranean history because of the archaeological remains discovered in different areas of the Mediterranean. These

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    Civilization is a complex way of life that came about when people began to develop urban settlements. The rise of agriculture allowed the development of the earliest civilizations wherein people have surplus food to maintain economic stability and for survival. The earliest civilizations first appeared in Mesopotamia‚ what is now Iraq‚ and then in Egypt. Civilizations also developed in the Indus Valley by 2500 BCE‚ in China by 1500 BCE and in Central America‚ what is now Mexico‚ by 1200 BCE. Civilizations

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    The first full civilization emerged by 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley in the Middle East. Relatively soon thereafter civilization developed along the Nile in Egypt‚ and later spread to other parts of the Middle East and one region in Africa. The advent of civilization provided a framework for most of the developments in world history. Additionally‚ the specific early civilizations that arose in the Middle East and Africa had several distinctive features‚ in political structure

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