Ancient India India is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Its ancient history dates back further than most and has many periods. Very little is known about the earliest inhabitants of India. Ancient tools found in the Soan Valley and South India are the earliest evidence of humans in India discovered so far. Some of the tools date back to the Paleolithic Age – 400‚000 to 200‚000 years ago‚ other tools date to the Mesolithic Age and the Neolithic Age (8000 BC – 4000 BC). The first
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WHAT ARE BANKS AND W H A T D O T H E Y D O? 1 1.1. Introduction1 The term ‘‘banking’’ can be applied to a large range of financial institutions‚ from savings and loans organisations to the large money-centre commercial banks in the USA‚ or from the smallest mutually owned building society to the ‘‘big four’’ shareholder owned banks in the UK. Many European countries have large regional/cooperative banks in addition to three to five universal banks. In Japan‚ the bank with the largest retail
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took place on the Plains of Olympia. Back then there was only one game‚ the Stadion. This was a foot race that resembles the modern 200M races. The games were clearly much smaller in contras to our current 25+ events for just summer Olympics alone. Now the Olympics are hosted in country’s all around the world‚ changing the location every time the games are held. The ancient Olympic games were a festival of athletic origin‚ held every four years in Olympia‚ Greece. These games were not only of traditional
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The Olympic games are the greatest sports event in the world. For many years‚ the Greeks used games for many reasons. The official ancient games were started in Greece. The first modern games in Athens‚ Greece‚ were held from April 6 through April 15 in the year of 1896. Since then‚ major world events plagued some of the Olympic games. There are a lot of examples of games being held in early Greece. There are also different stories on how they got started. One says that the guardians of Zeus held
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Ancient China and Ancient Rome Ancient China and Ancient Rome have strongly influenced the world as we know it. Without their inventions such as Romanian architecture‚ language and Chinas invention of paper money‚ fireworks‚ we would not have any of the things we have today. Their great inventions help us in our every day life like language we use it every day to communicate to each other. Every invention that they made has somehow helped the modern world. Architecture is one of the great gifts
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Ancient Rome is celebrated for its numerous advancements in architecture‚ government‚ and in the field of engineering. A major advancement made within Roman architecture was the Roman aqueducts. Ancient Roman aqueducts stretched over miles of terrain due in part to the utilization of the arched design. Along with these arched designs the use of an inverted siphon allowed for water to climb uphill. The inverted siphon used the pressure of the water and the gaining momentum due to gravity to climb
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The Ancient Aztecs were a special tribe situated in the northern area of Mexico. The ancient Aztecs were one of the strongest tribes back in those days. The main city of the Aztecs called Tenochtitlan was situated on an island that had a lake around it. The interesting part is that the Aztecs saw an eagle perched on a cactus on the soggy land near the southwest of lake Texcoco they knew it would be an amazing place to settle. Sadly‚ the tribe only lasted for 2 centuries as it had been attacked by
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Ancient Greek Contributions Ancient Greece forged many of the contributions seen in western civilizations. One of the most influential contributions is literature. Those contributions where very important then and still are today. The importance of Greek literature is found when looking at the texts of western civilization. Greek writers created the form and foundation for later writings. By opening Greece to the idea of writing‚ literature introduced new forms of entertainment‚ record keeping
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philosophers of the twentieth century. Many of those great theorists had one single thing in common: they have strived to break old concepts of political thought‚ being it racial and gender inequality‚ or ideas on how to be a leader with less opposition. In modern politics‚ after a long period of centralized governments‚ the brief trend of gaining freedom and equality has been deteriorating and the creation of an illusion of freedom has slowly replaced the true freedom of speech and thought. In the times of
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Developments in Science and Medicine in Ancient Greece Although no great revolution took place‚ Ancient Greece was a place of great thinkers and revolutionary ideas that expanded upon each other. It all began when the original thinkers‚ Thales‚ Anaximander‚ and Anaximenes‚ began to move away from mythological views and move to more rational and explained ones (Nagle 87). They wanted to know the answers to the big questions like – what is the universe made of and how did it come into being. Thales
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