years we have been influenced by many ideas from the Greeks. Some things we have today wouldn’t be possible without the Greeks contributions to Western civilization. Out of the many great ideas they had‚ the three most popular ones are philosophy‚ math and medicine‚ and entertainment. These all play major parts in today’s everyday life. In ancient Greece‚ philosophy was becoming a big thing. Many people were against it and wanted to get rid of philosophers. There was a famous trial in which the
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The Archaic style of sculpting started in the 18th century‚ right after the Mycenaean age. This was the start of the “Heroic” Age‚ the Olympic games were also established‚ and this was when Greeks returned the Human figure to Art. The sculptures created during this time period resembled pieces just like unnatural‚ rigid forms of Egyptian human sculptures. They had created something called Archaic Smile; it was a smile that should not be taken literally‚ it was a sculptor’s way of indicating that
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not have had access to various resources but they are still to be thanked for technology such as the seed drill. It is very useful of the Sumerian people to be so innovative and creative despite their lack of resources. Also in chapter one‚ the civilization of Ancient Egypt is explored. In contrast with the Sumerians‚ the Egyptians did not have futile resources as their lands were renewed each year when the Nile River flooded. Although I was already aware that Alexander the Great ruled Egypt for quite
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Reviewing all the different classical civilizations of Greece‚ Rome‚ Persia‚ India‚ and China between the time periods 500 BCE AND 500 C.E proved to be very interesting. Each civilization has some differences and similarities between each other based on certain factors like geographical location and culture‚ among other things. Starting with Greece for government‚ they adopted a more Democratic type view called Athenian Democracy because of its origination of Athens. Interestingly
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Holocaust‚ the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis from 1941-1945‚ challenged the very value of Western Civilization. But how‚ exactly? I will define key features of the Holocaust‚ by using the primary source‚ Sam Bankhalter‚ from Memories of the Holocaust. The holocaust challenged the ideas: of the equality of men and women‚ freedom of religion‚ and freedom of speech‚ that Western Civilization had. Western civilization is worth fighting for today. The Bankhalter account of Auschwitz demonstrates the pain
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Greek Influence on Western Culture The traditional starting point for what we sometimes refer to as “the west” is in Ancient Greece. As one of the western civilization sources‚ Greek civilization is primarily an idealized view of one group of Greeks based in and around the city state of Athens which has come to symbolize the development of rationality‚ ethics and logic. Splendid achievements created by Greek have made a far-reaching influence on the western civilization. The Greek culture
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World War I was a blow to the ideals of a “superior” Western civilization and to global socialism because advanced civilizations resorted to basic human nature. Before World War I‚ “…mankind seemed to have moved beyond the time when disputes were settled by war” (Foner 722)‚ with much of disputes between countries being settled with reason. The fact that issues could be resolved without violence in Western civilizations gave them an air of superiority—that violence was how uncivilized people solved
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Judaism and Western Civilization The basic contribution of Judaism to Western civilization is monotheism. Understood from the standpoint of Jewish tradition‚ Abraham was the first monotheist. He left polytheism behind to follow the directions of the one God. The Tanakh itself gives evidence that significant numbers of ancient Israelites worshipped multiple deities.(Rabbi Shofet) Jewish leadership called upon Israel to worship the one God with whom they had a covenant relationship. But as Tanakh
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translates it to a language in which it relates to human emotions. Rilke is someone who also questions our relation to the universe and is translated into his poems. 2. Reread your favorite poem. Does it tell a story? What is it? * The Archaic Torso of Apollo is indeed my favorite poem from Rainer Maria Rilke. It tells the story of a Greek statute in which it was fascinating because it was a torso with no limbs or head‚ but yet‚ despite this Rilke seemed to bring the torso to life. He gave
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the fact ‚that the white man and his civilization and civilizing mission is the meanest animal and one with profoundest bestiality of nature in the jungle will be incredulous and to postulate that Sir Snooper is victim of brainwashing will be nebulous. In my humble opinion Sir Snooper apologia for "western civilization" and its concomitant barbarity and perversity may be ascribed to what Sir Snooper refer to as his title as honorific citizen of the western world‚in the process of achieving this
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