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  • Regan 5 Explanations Of Cultural Evolution
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    The Significance of Anthropologists and Archaeologists Anthropologists and archaeologists have influenced our lives in so many ways. They have taken us back to our most humble beginnings. They have given us an awareness of just how far we have come through the centuries. Archaeology is the investigating of life by unearthing and interpreting the objects left behind by earlier peoples and cultures, dating back to prehistoric times. Anthropology is the scientific study of hominids, their physical ...
  • Development Of Western Civilizations
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    Attributes That Have Influenced Western Civilization There have been major influences from ancient civilizations that have helped the development of our Western Civilization today. Two major civilizations that have maybe contributed the most to our civilization are ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Some of their contributions to our world today include farming, sailing and navigation, and the use of their calendar. First, and possibly the most important attribute that have come from the ancient civ...
  • Four Ancient River Valley Civilizations
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    According to the encyclopedia Encarta, a civilization is an advanced state of a society possessing historical and cultural unity. There are four early river valley societies that had successfully met the requirements to be called civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India. These four civilizations encompass several similarities as to how they developed, including location, spirituality, governmental structure and forms of written communication. Location played a fundamental role in the d...
  • Postman's Theories To Television
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    Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business was published in 1985. The theories and concepts described in the book could easily apply to today's world. Postman goes to great detail in his book about the development of public discourse (verbal and written communication) over the centuries. He explains how the development and evolution of communication over mankind's history has changed at critical points. These critical points include the development of...
  • Geographical Features Of The Civilization
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    In ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, geography played an important role in development. Despite being in different areas of the world each managed to stay maintain, and make new developments along the way. Ultimately each civilization's development depended somehow on its geographical surroundings. One of the fist civilizations we know of is Egypt. Egypt's geographical features were very beneficial to the mindset of the people. Egypt was a very rural civilization and consisted of the ...
  • Science In The Egyptian Civilization
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    Mesopotamia and Egypt were two civilizations that while similar in some ways, also had many differences. Not only did they differ in the geographical layout of the civilization, but also in many aspects of basic life. Although different in many aspects of life, there are also several similarities between the two civilizations. Mesopotamia was originally focused in the river-valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the civilization eventually spread throughout an entire region. The Mes...
  • Rise To The Development Of Religion
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    The birth of early civilization occurred along the banks of the Nile River in Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia, the Indus River in India and the The Yellow River in China beginning around 3000 BC. This happened in the above four places over the course of about a thousand years. The rich soils of these riverbeds provided the fertile environment necessary to allow early humans to abandon their nomadic lifestyles and settle in one area. As these people settled they developed co...
  • Ancient African Civilizations The Environment
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    THE ENVIRONMENT OF ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS The environment is an extremely important factor in determaing the developement of a civilization. It can help advance a civilization or impede it. In ancient Africa, the environment affected the different civilizations, such as the Sahel, the Wagadu Empire and the Mbuti of the Ituri Forest. The environment uop n many aspects of these and other civilizations, such as agriculture, technology, trade, daily life and even sometimes the physical appear...

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