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    The Aztec Civilization

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    The Aztec civilization will be one of the greatest ones in history. The Aztecs clothes for women consisted of sleeveless blouses‚ and wraparound skirts. The men wore a maxtatl. Which was a cloak or a cape. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican native civilization that inhabited South Central Mexico. The civilization existed in the era of 600 to the year 1521. The Aztec built temples‚ pyramids‚ shrines‚ their Aztec homes‚ ball courts‚ and garden and farming lands. The most famous of these type of buildings

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    Cahokia Civilization

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    ASB Exam: Cahokia When asked to consider why the mound builders of Cahokia chose their particular location‚ there has been a theory that stems from archeological research and evidence. One such theory is that they chose this location because of the Mississippi flood plain. The flood plain would be used as a major resource for not only food supply‚ but mainly transportation to other parts of the city. Likewise‚ researchers such as Joseph Saunders has found little to no evidence of extensive trade

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    Roman Civilization

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    largest in the second century AD and it spread across three continents. This Empire had diverse languages and cultures. Nevertheless by the 3rd century A.D‚ Romans were on swift decline. This fast decline was caused by extreme changes in their civilization. The changes consisted of new leaders controlling the region‚ Rome becoming spilt up into two sections‚ and Christianity gaining all of religious control. There was very much a rapid downfall with many more changes as well‚ such as the spread of

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    Old Civilizations

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    technological improvement. Think of all the other genres in which advanced things are happening all the time. It is indeed amazing to think that‚ as I have said before‚ all of these events relate directly back to that first person who gave up chasing wild animals and started a farm‚ creating the first village‚ and eventually‚ the first civilization. These simple things developed‚ over time‚ into the many advances which hold such an important part of our lives. Their religions‚ governments‚ as well

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    Tikal Civilization

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    MWF 9:05-9:55 Dr.Moloye Tikal Civilization Civilization-societies in which large numbers of people live in cities‚ are socially stratified‚ and are governed by a ruling elite working through centrally organized political systems. Tikal meaning “at the waterhole‚” derived from the Yucatec Maya language is the modern name for the largest archaeological sites of the ancient ruined cities of the Mayan civilization. It emerged as an important site due to its relative altitude in the region. Tikal

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    Mesopotamia Civilization

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    mud-brick‚ grouped in villages where they tended their crops. They built granaries to store their grain‚ and they began developing a token system to record trade and accounts. Between 3500 and 3000‚ for reasons still not well understood‚ the civilization of Southern Mesopotamia underwent a sudden growth and change‚ centered in the cities of Ur and Uruk. This development was perhaps driven by climatic change which rendered the old ways of agriculture less productive. People clustered into fewer

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    Western Civilization

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    Chapter one the first civilization I. Introduction A. The Idea of Civilization The West is an idea that developed slowly during Greek and Roman civilization. Initially the Greeks referred to their homeland as the Europe—or “West.” The Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians

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    Sumerian Civilization

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    The first true civilization of Sumer came into being between 5900 and 2500 BCE of the Ubaid and Uruk cultures in Mesopotamia in what is now modern day Iraq. Although somewhat rigid‚ each member of the ancient Sumerian civilization had their own duties‚ talents‚ rights‚ and wealth according to his or her place in this unique society. While the peoples of Sumer upheld all of its nearly 1500 gods as according to their shared religion‚ discordance was common. Each individual city-state saw their

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    Ancient Civilizations

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    Count- 1‚332 Thinking about ancient civilizations is rather puzzling for me. Imagine no technological ways of communicating and not having many people to communicate with anyway. In the simplest ways‚ the first groups of people were able to create rather complex and often successful ways of life. From the first governments and militaries to early architecture and social roles‚ even trying to eat safe foods‚ it is incredible how many early civilizations flourished. In this paper I will be comparing

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    Human Civilization

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    or Bronze Age or developing directly into the Iron Age‚ depending on geographical region.   THE BRONZE AGE: The bronze age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze and proto-writing‚ and other features of urban civilization. An ancient civilization can be in the Bronze Age either by smelting its own copper and alloying with tin‚ or by trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere. THE IRON AGE: The iron age is the period generally occurring after the Bronze Age‚ marked

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