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    Fire the crucial element that contributed to the evolution of the human race. Without this substance the advancement of our species would never have come about. It can both bring about the creation of an entire civilization or destroy anything that comes within its grasp. This is why fire was so highly regarded in ancient society. Though many religions do not distinguish between the use of fire and the sun‚ it can be witnessed in their culture from art to text. The figures I have chosen to describe

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    1.Timeline of Ancient Egyptian civilization: c. 5000 BC: The coming of farming to the Nile Valley c. 3500-3000: The Pre-dynastic period‚ leading to the unification of Egypt c. 2650: The beginning of the Old Kingdom c.2575-2465: The Great Pyramids of Giza built c. 2150: The fall of the Old Kingdom leads to the 1st Intermediate period begins 2074: The Middle Kingdom begins; Egypt is united and powerful again 1759: The fall of the Middle Kingdom leads to the 2nd Intermediate period

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    Ancient Philippine Civilization | Period | | Governmental System | | State Religion | | | | | | 250‚000 - 323 BC | | Unrecorded Dawn Man (cousin to the Java Man or Peking Man) 250‚000BC-15‚000BC Protophilippinus 15‚000 BC Pigmy Negroid‚ Negritos‚ Aetas‚ Atis 15‚000-3000 BC Pacific Armenoids 3000-1000 BC | | | | | Semitico-Phoenicians 621 BC | | Sabaeanism | | | Malay-Armenoids 621 BC-1276 AD | | | 356 - 100 BC | | Alexander the Great-Helenico-Armenia Empire Armeno-Medan-Persian-Aryan

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    The lack of civilization and organization can drive people to irrational thoughts. Pride and selfish thoughts often leads to conflicts between groups in societies. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding creates the theme of savagery through the children’s location and isolation. To emphasize this‚ Golding portrays the people on the island as innocent children to show how primitive and savagery is the core in the human heart. Due to the boys’ desire for freedom and endeavor to kill the beast‚ the children

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    Savagery Triggered by the Incessant Presence of the Id Lord of the Flies‚ an emblematic novel written by William Golding in 1954‚ is often interpreted as an allegory of the human psyche. For example‚ in a literary criticism of Golding’s Lord of the Flies Diane Andrews Henningfield‚ a professor at Adrian College‚ states: “According to Freud the id works always to gratify its own impulses…Golding seems to be saying that without the reinforcement of social norms‚ the id will control the psyche.” (Novels

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    During the ages there have been people who have said The Bible is false and have tried to do everything to prove it. We have had people who tried to say that Adam an Eve never walked the Earth to Jesus Christ was not the Messiah so it wouldn’t be surprise that the Code of Hammurabi is an ancestor to the Mosaic laws. The civil laws in the Old Testament that were given by God to Moses known as the Mosaic Laws were not isolated. Many people debate the similarities between the Mosaic laws and other ancient

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    Chapter 1 — The First Civilizations The Earliest Humans Essential Question How did humans become food producers rather than food gatherers? * Domestication of animals * There was fertile soil to grow crops * Hunting animals was harder * Agriculture was a failure for a long time I can statements Explain why the development of agriculture was so crucial for the establishment of civilization. * Hunting wasn’t reliable * You may not get enough food for the day by hunting/gathering

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    HELLENIC AGE PHILOSOPHY • Greeks used observation and reason to find causes for what happened • Ethics and morality • In Athens‚ Sophism- success is more important than moral truth o Rhetoric- art of skillful speaking o Socrates- Sophist‚ Athenian philosopher ▪ Socratic Method- pose series of questions to students and challenge them to examine the implications of their answers o Plato- student of Socrates ▪ Emphasized the

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    Images of Women in Western Civilization Women’s Roles in Society and Contributions to the Art during the Renaissance Period  GENTILESCHI‚ Artemisia
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    Western Civilization‚ Chapters 14-17 Exam Study online at quizlet.com/_88jqf 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. ____ was a Jewish philosopher who argued that religion should be voluntary‚ that secular states should promote tolerance‚ and that progress for everyone would come through humanitarianism. Moses Mendelssohn ____ was the "new scientist" whose work laid the foundation for Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. Johannes

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