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River Valley Yellow River
515 wordsFrom 3000 BC to 1500 BC four civilizations arose that historians to this day marvel at, the Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Indus River Valley people, and the Shang dynasty in China. They all had great accomplishments in government, and religion and inventions. While they had their own different civilizations many similarities arise, such as depending on the river and their polytheistic religions. They had very isolated civilizations with the exception of the Sumerians. The geography, religion, an...
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King Of England History Of Ireland
1,998 wordsENGLISH IMPERAIALISM UNDER HENRY II In 1155 Pope Adrian IV issued a significant bull that changed the history of Ireland and England forever. The papal bull issued gave Henry II, King of England (1154 - 1189), the right to conquer Ireland. Ireland has gained and lost as a result of English rule. It was rewarded with a stronger Church and a more centralized government. It lost some of its cultural values and customs, as well as its own system government for example; its clan-based hierarchy was r...
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Hundreds Of Years Years Of Age
1,644 words... s to indicate relative peace under some form of central authority, Mycenaean civilization was characterized by independent city-states such as Corinth, Pylos, Turns and, the most powerful of them all, Mycenae. The Mycenaean's were closed within massive walls on easily defensible hilltops. The ruins of Mycenae walls were termed Cyclopean, because they were thought to have been built by the like-named giants. The Mycenaean's most impressive legacy is magnificent gold jewelry and ornaments, mos...
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Gilgamesh And Enkidu Bull Of Heaven
1,456 wordsThe epic of Gilgamesh was found in the mid nineteenth century, written on over twenty five thousand clay tablets. After much studying and deciphering, this ancient Sumerian epic has finally been translated, though many of the tablets have not been found. It appears that all the most important elements of the story probably existed as separate poems when they were first written. One of the oldest pieces of literature found today, Gilgamesh is at least 1, 500 years older than Homer's epics, and wa...
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Amerigo Vespucci Biography Founder Of America
861 wordsVespucci was the one person for whom North and South America was named after. Vespucci had a wonderful life and found many things on his voyages. Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river. As a young boy, Amerigo's happiest moments studying the stars. He excelled in mathematics and his hobby was copying maps. His dream as a young boy was to travel and get a better picture about what the Earth looked like. Amerigo spent hal...
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National Geographic Society York New York
1,369 words... vil service. Another contribution to the Spartan government that Lycurgus provided was the money system. The Spartans used pieces of iron instead of silver and gold. This type of monetary system was of very little value outside of the Spartan city-state and made the citizens dependent upon the local economy. The warrior culture of Sparta was battle tested time and time again and proved to be the strongest battle ready nation within the Grecian region. The Spartans were called upon during man...
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Julius Caesar Punic Wars
990 wordsThe Romans adopted an aggressive military policy, but they were not strong enough to become masters of the Italian peninsula immediately. They fought for nearly a century just to ensure their safety from the Etruscans. They also faced invasion by the Gauls, a people of the Celtic language group who inhabited most of modern-day France and northern Italy. The disastrous sack of Rome by the raiders from Gaul in 390 BC could well have ended the citys history, even though patriotic fiction has since ...
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Valley Of Mexico Source Of Power
2,164 wordsIn all the tomes of history, there were civilizations significant in their economic and cultural achievements. To begin conversation about those unique representatives of pristine periods of human development, it is worthy to warn about the limited knowledge that we possess about them. It is also hard to identify any boundary between larger civilizations or to tell where or when one begins and the other ends. All of the pristine civilizations, societies and cultures and also religions experience...
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Peloponnesian War B C
661 wordsPlague of Athens (1) The Great Plague of Athens took place in 430 - 429 B. C. , when Athens was besieged by Spartans, during the course of second year of Peloponnesian War. The first outbreak of epidemic occurred in the summer of 430 B. C. , which according to contemporary historians, was particularly hot. The second outbreak occurred in the following winter, with actual scope of the plague being significantly lesser then in the summer. There is also some circumstantial evidence as to the fact t...
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God Or Goddess Gods And Goddesses
417 wordsAncient Greece through the Rise of Major Religions The Mesopotamian's viewed their city-states as earthly copies of a divine model and order. Each city-state was sacred since it was linked to a god or goddess. Hence, Nippur, the earliest center of Sumerian religion, was dedicated to Enlil, god of wind, and Babylon to Marduk, who supplanted Enlil in Babylonian myth. Nannar, a moon god, was the owner of Ur. Moreover, located at the heart of each major city-state was a temple complex. Occupying sev...
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Religious Matters Greek City
1,020 wordsRoyal Stoa The ancient times it is a really times of mystery, strangeness and unknown. Now well try to look up to such times from nowadays. Agora originally meant "gathering place" but came to mean the market place and Public Square in an ancient Greek city. It was the political, civic, and commercial center of the city. Socrates spent most of his time at the agora in Athens discussing the serious issues of the day with anyone who was willing. Sited between 3 hills and a creek, along Panathenic ...
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Happy Person Perfect City
1,251 wordsThe Republic by Plato is a book that examines the idea good life, justice and pure reasoning that might bring harmony and peace into life. The ideas and arguments presented center on the social conditions of an ideal republic - those that lead each individual to the most perfect possible life for him. In The Republic, Plato attempts to demonstrate through the character and discourse of Socrates that justice is better than injustice and is the good which men must strive for, regardless of whether...
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Life In Ancient Greece
2,225 wordsLife in Ancient Greece The life of the past was indeed quite different from life as we see and perceive it today. People were thinking differently, the cultures and behaviours were also different. However if we examine any time span we might find that still most of the people on the planet Earth, no matter what are the historical contexts and prepositions that surround them, are concerned with very universal things of the personal living. When I say universal, I mean something like having a dece...
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