Ancient China has played a significant part in many famous inventions that have had a major impact in our lives from day to day. No matter how small they seem to be their inventions have helped us in so many ways that we have taken for granted. How many of us have ever given a thought to those that have made our lives easier by their inventions? There are quite a few from the Ancient Chinese that I was not aware of and was amazed at how many of these we do use in our lives every day and never stop
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Most ancient Greek clothing could be described as gender neutral. There are architectural differences and differences in how these garments were worn by the differing genders. According to Daily Life and Customs in the Ancient World‚ chitons‚ peplos‚ and togas are clothing that used draping. All of these garments except for the peplos were worn by males and females in this era. Peplos were only worn by females‚ and it was very similar to the chiton.Females’ garments had a closer fit on their bodies
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Ancient Greek Theater is the first historical record of "drama‚" which is the Greek term meaning "to do" or "to act." Beginning in the 5th century BC‚ Greek Theater developed into an art that is still used today. During the golden age of the Athenians plays were created‚ plays that are considered among the greatest works of world drama. Today there are thousands of well-known plays and films based on the re-make of ancient drama. Theater originated from the religious rites of ancient Greek tribes
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The civilization of Ancient Egypt is known to be one of the earliest and strongest ones in the history. It’s unique because of its well-known architecture and artwork. The civilization is located at the northeastern Africa‚ bordering the Mediterranean Sea‚ along the Nile River. The climate’s hot and dry‚ mostly deserted‚ even today. The Nile River was its main source. The location was a great benefit to the nation. It brought the nation a lot of wealth and power‚ as the villagers started moving along
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Greece had very advanced civilisations that had good levels of sanitation and logical ideas about medicine and science. Because the Romans had good levels of sanitation they had better living conditions that meant they had better health; it took the western civilisations over 2000 years to associate human waste with illness. Their diet and concept of medicine also contributed to their good health as a civilisation. Religion was very important to the Romans‚ as they believed that the gods controlled
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customs and policies of Greek religion and how did the gods fit in? Background Greek religion spans from the Minoan and Mycenaean periods to the days of Hellenistic (ending in 31 BE) Greece‚ when the Romans invaded and took over Greece. The Greeks primary way of worship was through cult practices. However there were so many variations dependent on the area in which a person comes from that it can be said that there were Greek religions. When talking about Greek religion though we must keep
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republic. While doing so‚ he established a political system pertaining to a monarchy that would allow him to concentrate the power in his hands alone. This new system of governing would deliver Rome to its peak‚ allowing the Roman Empire to shape Western civilization through a process historians call “Romanization.” Fourteen years of bloody civil war followed the assassination of Caesar Augustus‚ who was often referred to as the greatest emperor of Rome. Several men of power attempted to take the throne
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There are many valuable life lessons hidden behind the stories of Greek Mythology. Through elaborate Greek creation stories and tales of gods and goddesses‚ life lessons are revealed that are still relevant in people’s lives today. In her book Mythology‚ Edith Hamilton portrays love through Ancient Greek stories as a simple emotion that can be interpreted in many different ways. In particular‚ the ancient love stories of Cupid and Psyche‚ Pyramus and Thisbe‚ Ceyx and Alcyone‚ Baucis and Philemon
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The glory that was Greece‚" in the words of Edgar Allan Poe‚ was short-lived and confined to a very small geographic area. Yet it has influenced the growth of Western civilization far out of proportion to its size and duration. The Greece that Poe praised was primarily Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC. The English poet John Milton called Athens "the eye of Greece‚ mother of arts and eloquence." Athens was the city-state in which the arts‚ philosophy‚ and democracy flourished. At
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Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome‚ it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world[1] with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world’s population[2][3][4]) and covering 6.5 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq mi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.[5][6][7] In its approximately
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