and ancient Chinese civilizations began in two different continents, their development shares many similarities. Like many ancient civilizations, they began near water sources, as water is the most essential substance to human existence. The ancient Egyptian civilization settled near the Nile River, whereas the ancient Chinese civilization settled near the Yellow river, where the soil was fertile, which would lay the foundations for agriculture. The ancient Egyptian civilization began in 3000 BCE
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Throughout the course of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond has told his readers again and again that the environments people are placed in have more of an affect on people than the individual people do. There are four factors that make the biggest differences in how history all played out. The first is how many domesticable plants and animals were around for the ancient people to work with. Next is the rate of diffusion and migration of people within each continent, and inversely the rate of
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1.A civilization is created when certain requirements come into play. A centralized government is needed in a civilization so that laws are made and enforced. An organized religion is helpful so that the people have a belief of a higher being, and rules/laws are out into place on how that higher being should be worshipped. Creating a social class is important, because when the civilization is divided into groups it helps to assign those groups certain jobs. For example, higher class people could
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Stellaris – It’s like Civilization, but in Space All hail Queen Tetran – Glorious leader of the Mireeshi! Feared for their warlike nature and technological prowess, the Mireeshi hope to find great success in their galactic conquest. Most of my gaming consists of Strategy and world-building style games, such as Civilization or Minecraft. After a month of binge-playing Civ IV, I was ready for a change, so I was very excited when I discovered Stellaris. According to Steam, I have played 247 hours
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Society is a very complex subject that contains many interrelating elements that construct its foundation. There is no such thing as a perfect society; however there are a variety of different views on what would make it ideal. This ideal society would create a community in which all aspects of it may function at their highest potential and in a smooth manner. This essentially would be a “Utopia”, which is a community or society that possesses near perfect qualities. Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl
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The Silk Road is not known as a road, but firmly identified as a route used to conduct exchanges between major countries. The empires that benefitted from the trade route are the Han Dynasty of China, Rome, Mesopotamia, India and Egypt. The Chinese created silk, paper and gun powder which made them beneficial to the trade route because they had many countries interested in forming a trade with them. The created empire during the Silk Road trade is Greco- Bactrian who was form by the Macedonian warriors
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The Han and Roman empires were the most powerful in their times. Throughout their existence they developed many difference and similarities in their political structure, social classes, and their food and trading ways which could have developed their attitudes towards the different technological inventions. The Han Empire grew different attitudes towards their technology because of the locations. For the production of new technology the Han needed to have craftsman make new tools, that would benefit
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When examining world history in the attempt to understand it better, you must always take into account a particular society’s ability to spread its people, culture, ideas and influence throughout the region it inhabits, and expand those boarders when defined. When defining historical impact by these criteria we see that China throughout the historical record excels, therefore having an immense impact on history. I believe no story better exemplifies the pursuit of Chinese exceptionalism and total
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Silk Road remained intact by being a connecting platform and trade route between various countries in Central Asia, the major goods traded on it and the civilizations it went through also did too. The road consisted of many different routes leading to different cities and countries, such as the Chinese, Kushan, Parthian, and Roman civilizations. Due to the interactions between various, distinct cultures, the Silk Road facilitated the exchange of many distinct
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Egypt’s complex history and culture begin around 6,000 B.C.E. and is one of the oldest nations in the world. Egypt was one of the first true ‘melting pots’ of culture. The populace of the country gained much and forgot much during the centuries of conquest, submission, and intermingling of societies. That notwithstanding, the richness of the culture never waned and was continuously built upon progressively. The early foundation of governance in Egypt was accomplished by the Pharaohs at some
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