HUM 1000: WORLD CIVILIZATIONS NOTES THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION IN AFRICA Definition of key terms As we begin this course‚ it is crucial to first discuss our understanding of the concept ‘civilization’. This is a comparative term which is usually applied in comparison to such words as ‘barbarian’ ‘savage’ and ‘primitive’. In classical antiquity the Europeans used the word ‘barbarian’ to refer to a foreigner who was regarded as inferior (Ogutu and Kenyanchui‚ An Introduction
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Culture of Gandhara Civilization Gandhara is the region that now comprise of Peshawar valley‚ Mardan‚ Swat‚ Dir‚ Malakand‚ and Bajuaur agencies in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)‚ Taxila in the Punjab‚ and up to Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is in this region that the Gandhara civilization emerged and became the cradle of Buddhism. It was from here that Buddhism spread towards east as far away as Japan and Korea. The intriguing record of Gandhara civilization‚ discovered in the 20th century
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DBQ: Ancient Greeks Contributions Essay The Ancient Greeks culture has made many wonderful contributions to Western civilization. The ancient Greeks affected our government‚ medics‚ and sports. The Greeks culture has had a very profound impact on the way people live nowadays. One thing that the ancient Greek affected western civilization is politics. It was the Greeks who developed a democracy‚ they were the very first. Pericles stated that he wanted all citizens to have an equal opportunity to
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Sumerian Culture and Contributions The Sumerians were a people who lived in the southern portion of Mesopotamia from around 3500 B.C. to 1800 B.C.. The Sumerian people lived in twelve city states‚ famous among which ar Sumer and Ur. They shared a common language‚ Sumerian. Sumerian has no modern day descendants‚ it seems to have disappeared from human history as a spoken language‚ but lived on in written language. The Sumerians were an agricultural people‚ and they raised crops in three areas
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The ancient Greeks made many lasting contributions to Western civilizations. Many achievements of the ancient Greek civilization have positively affected the west. Roots in the most influenced areas of math‚ art‚ philosophy‚ and drama can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid influenced mathematics in a large way after developing the Pythagorean theorem. His theorem (written around 300 B.C.) stated that “If two straight lines cut one another‚ the vertical
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Achievements of Ancient Civilizations In 3500 B.C early civilizations started in the river valleys of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and India. These civilizations made a big impact on later civilizations. They also made lasting and important contributions to humankind. The first civilization is the Sumarians. (doc 1). The Sumarians lived in Southern Mesopotamia which is the land where the Tigris and Eurphrates rivers meet. Mesopotamia is also known as The Fertile Crescent because of its fertile soil
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Ancient Greek Contributions to Western Civilization The Ancient Greece culture has made many contributions to western civilization. The ancient Greeks affected our fine arts‚ government‚ sports‚ medics‚ and philosophies. The Greek culture has had a very profound impact on the way people live nowadays. One way that ancient Greece affected western civilization is politics. Greece had the first known democracy. The Greek states man Pericles had three goals‚ to Strengthen Democracy‚ Hold strength
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| Contributions of Egyptian Civilization | March 28‚ 2015 Since it’s unification to its conquest by Alexander the Great‚ ancient Egypt was the Mediterranean world preeminent civilization for almost 30 centuries. From the colossal pyramids of the Old Kingdom through the military triumphs of the New Kingdom‚ Egypt ’s loftiness has since quite a while ago enchanted archeologists and students of history and made a dynamic field of study all its own: Egyptology. The fundamental wellsprings of
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AP World DBQ 1 Religion and Politics roles in Afro-Eurasia’s ancient societies were influenced by geography. Both played a big part in the progress of building civilizations‚ believes‚ and a government‚ etc. Geography influenced the roles of religion and politics by the physical geography of the environment allowing interaction and exchanging of beliefs and goods possible. The Indus River and the Nile River both played a big role on the relationship between ancient humans and their environment
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Throughout history‚ there have been many contributions to Western civilization from the Ancient Greeks. They made long lasting contributions in the areas of art‚ architecture‚ philosophy‚ beliefs‚ religion‚ writings‚ math‚ drama‚ science‚ government‚ pottery‚ and Olympics‚ and philosophical teachings such as by Socrates or Plato. In this essay‚ it will be proven that the Greeks impacted western civilization immensely. In document 1‚ the anti-sophist teacher and philosopher‚ Socrates‚ suggests that
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