The Contributions to the Western Civilization
The Contributions to the Western Civilization
Ashley Stewart
5/1/11
Professor Hammond
Strayer University
The Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, have made great contributions to develop the Western Civilization. The legacy that they’ve left was religion, knowledge, and government. The Hebrews contributed the religious aspect, the Greeks contributed knowledge and government, and the Romans contributed one must have an understanding of the ancient Greek culture, or else considered governing methods to Western Civilization. It's said that to understand our culture ignorant. (sherer44).
The Hebrews shaped the very core of Western Civilization. Author Thomas Cahill has recently produced a historical account, The Gifts of the Jews, which explores in depth the contributions of early Judaism to the thought patterns and social structure of present-day orders. A review of his work states that "Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception, that of men and women as individuals with unique destinies-- a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence-- and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today." (
The West would not have been the same without Jewish contributions that celebrated concepts such as absolute morality, self-improvement, and the striving to comprehend the forces that shape one's existence. These innovative notions permitted the Hebrews to endure throughout millennia of oppression and foreign dominance and reform their state into today's Israel, one of the top ten nations in the world in terms of military might and economic sophistication.
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Ashley Stewart
5/1/11
Professor Hammond
Strayer University
The Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, have made great contributions to develop the Western Civilization. The legacy that they’ve left was religion, knowledge, and government. The Hebrews contributed the religious aspect, the Greeks contributed knowledge and government, and the Romans contributed one must have an understanding of the ancient Greek culture, or else considered governing methods to Western Civilization. It's said that to understand our culture ignorant. (sherer44).
The Hebrews shaped the very core of Western Civilization. Author Thomas Cahill has recently produced a historical account, The Gifts of the Jews, which explores in depth the contributions of early Judaism to the thought patterns and social structure of present-day orders. A review of his work states that "Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception, that of men and women as individuals with unique destinies-- a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence-- and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today." (
The West would not have been the same without Jewish contributions that celebrated concepts such as absolute morality, self-improvement, and the striving to comprehend the forces that shape one's existence. These innovative notions permitted the Hebrews to endure throughout millennia of oppression and foreign dominance and reform their state into today's Israel, one of the top ten nations in the world in terms of military might and economic sophistication.
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