Hist 101-010 Western Civilization Summer 2012 “The ancient Greeks’ major contribution to the evolution of the foundations of Western Civilization entailed the foundations of the systems of thought which in many ways are still at work in the modern world.” How are your readings of Plato and Aristotle and the Play Oedipus the King evidence of the above statement. The first two might be examined in terms of how we come to know what we know and to what extent what we know approximates the truth.
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demanded some kind of efficient system of measuring long periods of time. So the Sumerians invented calendars‚ which they divided into twelve months based on the cycle of the moon. Since a year consisting of twelve lunar months is considerably shorter than a solar year‚ the Sumerians added a "leap month" every three years in order to catch up with the sun. This interest in measuring long periods of time led the Sumerians to develop a complicated knowledge of astronomy and the first human invention of
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The Hundred Years’ War‚ 1336-1453 Western Europe in 1328 CAUSES The Battle for Flanders Flanders had grown to be the industrial center of northern Europe and had become extremely wealthy through its cloth manufacture. It could not produce enough wool to satisfy its market and imported fine fleece from England. England depended upon this trade for its foreign exchange. During the 1200’s‚ the upper-class English had adopted Norman fashions and switched from beer to wine. (Note that beer and
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Ancient Greek Contributions to Western Civilization The Ancient Greece culture has made many contributions to western civilization. The ancient Greeks affected our fine arts‚ government‚ sports‚ medics‚ and philosophies. The Greek culture has had a very profound impact on the way people live nowadays. One way that ancient Greece affected western civilization is politics. Greece had the first known democracy. The Greek states man Pericles had three goals‚ to Strengthen Democracy‚ Hold strength
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continues to introduce us to world civilization starting with the areas of southwest Asian and the Indo-European regions. It was said that the first complex societies developed in southwest Asia (Mesopotamia). The existence of politics and social order can only be explained by how‚ through the adaptation of an organization‚ the government came to be. Mesopotamia‚ known as “the land between the rivers” (Tigris and Euphrates)‚ began the irrigation process. The people‚ known as Sumerians‚ used their surrounding
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When Arnold Pacey was writing "Technology in World Civilization‚" he intended to write a book that would explain how the technology we have‚ and use every day‚ came to be and how it has traveled from its origins to where we live today. In his book‚ he shows challenges that the world‚ at that time‚ were facing‚ and how people used those challenges to invent something that made a part of everyone’s life a slight bit easier. Many of those inventions were the basic foundations for some of the most complex
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Joseph Reyes 2-B World History Ancient Civilizations People have been on the earth for hundreds of years. They have come together to become the best of the best. Civilizations were ways to put humans in to an organized group and to survive the ways of nature. Two civilizations were successful and survived for a long time. Ancient Mesopotamia was a much different civilization then Egypt‚ but both were organized in a similar way. They both developed by setting up their government‚ controlling
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The civilization known as the Sumerians‚ developed in the Mesopotamia era‚ are considered to be the first culture to become civilized. As the Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia‚ a class structure gradually took shape which allowed them to progress their society. The second characteristic which shows the civilization of the Sumerians was their ability to create progress in agricultural skills and techniques. The final characteristic representative in the first culture of Mesopotamia is their contribution
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Most everyone knows about the great civilizations of the Sumerians and the Aztecs. If anyone were to visit the land that the Sumerians inhabited‚ they might not be able to imagine how these people were able to survive and flourish. The land there is dry and hot‚ with extreme temperatures. Hardly any vegetation survives in the area. However‚ the Sumerians did find a way in which they could live in the area and live bountifully (Landau 10-12). The Aztec Empire‚ on the other hand‚ appeared in Central
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To the modern human writing is a second nature‚ most people do not think twice before they go to write a letter to someone or make a grocery list. What is not often thought about is the world before there was a written language and how people developed the first written way of communication. People began to realize that it was not reliable to remember everything that was used to run their society and that there was a need to record this information. They needed to be able to write down the laws and
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