Indian Culture "India is the cradle of human race‚ the birthplace of human speech‚ the mother of history‚ the grandmother of legend‚ and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only! - Mark Twain” This quote is an exemplary example of Indian history that only scratches the surface of the actual history of India. India’s culture is an amalgamation of its own states and “subcultures.” Hierarchy‚ family status
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Who invented the world’s oldest cuisine? If you said your grandmother‚ you are incorrect. Many believed it was the Roman’s who created the world’s oldest cuisine but experts say evidence of ancient cuneiform tablets were discovered‚ leading to believe culinary traditions from early civilizations in Ancient Mesopotamia. Such cuneiform tablets feature more than two dozen recipes for meat‚ fowl‚ broths‚ and vegetables‚ pies‚ flavored with various herbs and spices. And if these were a type of cuisine
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The Hebrew civilization was one of the most influential civilizations in the west. The Hebrew bible or what the Christians call the Old Testament‚ their history has been disputed because most it has been drawn from oral and written sources. Deep rooted in their traditions with not having a centralized political power‚ they decided to go against the grain and decided that having a king would give them stronger leadership. Their first king was Saul‚ after twenty years David was named king. During his
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Kristy Hansen 05/01/11 His 126 The West and the World Mr. Hall The Women of Ancient Greece Cheris Kramarae once said‚ “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”. In today’s society marriage is a romanticized idea of living a life with the person you love‚ while in ancient Greece this was the last thing women were thinking about. In ancient vc cGreece women endured extremely difficult situation in many aspects of their lives. From marriage‚ to inheritance‚ to
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Pre-Axial Chinese Religion Did not develop religion as a separate realm of human concern Rites‚ rituals‚ ethics that bound the Chinese people were cultural phenomena (daily routine) Chinese approach toward ultimate reality stressed NATURE No clear creator outside nature Chinese thought always emphasized people (family and community) Peasant Heritage Numerous festivals timed by agricultural calendar Politically: single empire; emperor until 1911 Language diversity (Mandarin in north and Cantonese
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class‚ how did Indians respond to the government’s agenda to solve “the Indian Problem”? Where did they cooperate—and why—and where did they resist—and why? The “Indian Problem” was the “burden” that the United States Government faced throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Government considered the Indians to be a “problem” due to the fact that native tribes were halting the expansionist policy popular in the 1800’s. The main aspects targeted and defined as the “Indian Problem” by
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Korea Calendar As in many Asian countries‚ Korea uses both the solar and lunar calendars‚ and celebrates holidays based on both. The country uses one time zone and is 9 hours ahead of GMT‚ the same as Japan. Most Koreans work Monday through Friday and then a half day on Saturday mornings. Usual business hours are 9:00-6:00 during the week and 9:00-1:00 on Saturday. During national holidays‚ government offices and most businesses are closed‚ although many private store keepers and large department
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valley civilization was the largest of four ancient urban civilizations Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ South Asia‚ and China. It was discovered in the 1990’s but most of its ruins remain to be excavated. The Indus civilization was huge; it covered from Mumbai (in Marashta‚ India) in south up to Himalayas and northern Afghanistan in north. The far west of the Indus civilization is as far west as Arabian Sea coast (in Baluchistan‚ Pakistan) next to the Iranian border. The east of that large civilization ends a
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Egypt and Mesopotamia have both similarities and differences‚ throughout both of these civilizations from back to 3‚500 B.C. The political and social structures in these civilizations were different and the same in their own way. The political differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia included hierarchy power‚ land control‚ and centralized government. The similarities between both civilizations are social class‚ male patriarchy‚ and kings. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had differences of their political
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The importance of science to civilization It is said that modern civilization is a scientific civilization. For an individual‚ science has rendered us great comfort nowadays. We no longer have to travel on foot; instead‚ we can just sit comfortably without any fatigue in cars‚ air-conditioned trains‚ buses‚ etc. We are free from hard labor which our uncivilized forefathers suffered from. Neither do we follow barbarous practice of having slaves‚ since science has provided us with slaves of a new
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