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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...

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...

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

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

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...

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

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

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

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

complex. They are creative. They need their freedom and not necessarily to think or be alike. If the people do try to resolve the ...

of the civilizations are important. In fact, one source claims that the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Egyptians were consi...

on a new meaning. Prior to 9/11, his ideas might have been construed as being somewhat the antithesis of the thinking of the world...

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

noted by the leadership of Menes, the first pharaoh, in which the communities of Egypt formed around the Nile delta and the Nile v...

when some archeologists needed assistance in searching through caves that seemed to bend and twist and go on forever, with at leas...

also stand in testament to the fact of the existence and power of a central government and a strong social stratification. The ru...

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

that life is a dream (Leon-Portilla 7). The Aztecs reasoned that, eventually, everything vanishes, even things such as rocks and p...

1993). China or eastern Asia is so large and the population so great that China is considered to be a civilization all of its own....

to Cyprus, where copper was mined and alloyed with the tin to produce bronze" (Bronze Age, 2005). The tin, upon analysis, was rev...

As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...

in ideology, but will be conflict arising between civilizations due to cultural differences.2 A civilization is a group o...

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...