Civilization IV

China is currently one of the oldest continuous civilization in the world. Their culture is magnificent and there is plenty of tourist sites. China is a pleasant place to visit on vacation. You should always make sure to know information regarding the languages and many of their famous tourist attractions. There is about 3,600 years of written history about China. China is a very important country because they support many other countries with Manufactured goods, China is sometimes known as the…

The Empire in which J.M. Coetzee creates within his Nobel-Prize winning novel, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, is home to a people who believe themselves to be more “civilized” and “proper” than those who are not as technologically advanced as them. As noted from the passage on page 51 of the novel, it is through constant acts of swindling, degrading, and bullying, as the narrator (the magistrate) describes it, that the “uncivilized”, or the “Barbarians”, are treated with as much disregard for…

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Reflection • The rise of beer was closely associated with the domestication of grains and the eventual adoption of farming by nomadic tribes after they began settling into an agricultural lifestyle in the areas surrounding the Fertile Crescent. Beer was a unifying force in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt because everyone had access to it and it wasn’t just a drink for the rich. Beer was often times used as a form of currency because it was…

The effects of infrastructure can be dire to the civilization staying afloat. In Mesopotamia they had a very good prosperous irrigation system created by the Sumerian People, with these Irrigation systems they “ tapped into rivers, built reservoirs, and dug canals, so they could irrigate fields of Barkley, wheat and peas”(Ziegler 26). With these irrigation systems came migrations of different people, such as the Semitic People as they became more prosperous they acquired a government and…

that the chicken, unlike the horse or the ox, did little to change the course of history, as the horse became a part of military warfare that permitted armies to travel longer distances faster. While the chicken was never useful for conquering civilizations, it was, and still is, a sacred animal in some cultures. The hen, a female chicken, became a worldwide symbol of nurturance and fertility. Eggs were hung in Egyptian temples to ensure that the annual flooding of the Nile was bountiful…

China has a variety of geographic features including rivers, mountains, deserts, plains, and plateau. With this great variety, more people wanted to live in China because of the benefits that came with the geography. With such a large population, there needed to be a government that put stability and order in China. The government aided the issues that were caused by the geography in China. With geographic features, like the ones in China, come disadvantages that the government needed to solve.…

Throughout the development of time, many great civilizations have created a base for which all civilizations are created and maintained. Many people seem to forget that the way their community is formed had to come from somewhere and not just out of a hat. Now, people do not really move around to different areas because we do not have to follow food sources like they had to. While nomadic tribes were very common and in some area still present many things traveled along with them. Government,…

of revolutionary changes in the ways of life. Some of the most important Neolithic nations appeared in the Middle East and the Balkan Peninsula. Agriculture occupied above all a pre-eminent place in the Chinese, Hindu, Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. The first…

Ancient China was a highly successful civilisation. Contributions to its success include the philosophy-based religion of Confucianism that gave people guidelines on how to live their lives (and which is still followed today). Another highly influential aspect to Ancient China’s success was the Silk Road which enabled Ancient China to trade with other civilisations, with merchants bringing back not only goods, but also new religions. Furthermore, the inventions created in Ancient China have…

between the great civilizations of Roma and China. From the first to the sixteenth centuries, various regions such as Rome, India, Asia, Africa and more relied on trade in order to exchange goods. Many merchants like Marco Polo traveled along the silk road and were able to pave the way for many English merchants after him. Without the advancement of the silk road, ideas and cultures would not have been able to spread as easily, which would lead to a lack development of civilizations and an…