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    Lord of The Flies by William Golding is an allegory of civilization and how human nature can easily corrupt what may seem like a perfect society. The protagonist of the novel, Ralph, immediately takes charge of a group of boys whose plane crashes onto an island. His innocence to the dynamics of a community symbolizes the belief that human nature is to be civilized. This completes the theme of the novel which is that civilization is compromised by the savagery of human nature. Ralph’s symbolic…

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    This civilization existed around 5000-3500 BCE. The first city-states gradually develop in southern Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia lies between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates in southern Iraq. Some of the major Mesopotamian civilizations include the Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian civilizations. The Sumerians were the first people to migrate to Mesopotamia, they created a good civilization. They invented writing and government. They were organized in city-states where each city had…

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    ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean, is one of the earliest civilizations. Civilization began when the nomads settled and began an attempt at farming. The land of Mesopotamia was fertile and the geography had a big role in the development of civilization because it provided basic living needs for the people by allowing them to farm and use timber and other natural resources. Another very significant part of Mesopotamian civilization was government. With the development of government,…

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    in this book are civilization vs savagery, man vs nature and loss of innocence. These themes are very significant to the book and very well developed. Civilization vs. savagery is the best developed of the three themes. Lord of the Flies presents a constant battle between civilization and savagery in the form of Ralph (civilization) and Jack (savagery). These two characters battle for leadership throughout the book. In the beginning Ralph takes control with his plan for civilization and rules…

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    Global Inequality Essay There were several ancient civilizations all in various areas. Some of the civilizations however weren’t as successful as others. According to Jared Diamond, the location of the early river valley civilizations had everything to do with their successful development. Many things affected the success of the early cities but they were most affected by the region they settled in. Areas around the fertile crescent advanced because the fertile soil in that specific region…

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    list of characteristics that defined a civilization. Childe also identified stages of human society until it had become a civilization, and in those stages Childe defines the Neolithic era as part of the barbarism stage. Gordon Childe had believed that the Bronze Age had brought an early phase of a civilized world, even though some villages and communities in the Neolithic era had shown many characteristics of a civilization. Though the term of civilization has changed several times and could be…

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    Bjondina Duka Civilization is the condition that exists when people have developed an effective ways of organizing a society and care about the beauty of life. On the other hand, savagery exists in the conditions when the people of society are acting uncivilized and when they will do whatever is necessary for the benefit of them, usually not concerned with the feelings of others. Since the basic flow of mankind is inherent in man, Jack, the leader of the hunters, had to go through a major…

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    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,…

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    Many of the civilizations we have today grew out of the advent of agriculture. It transcended the way of human life and changed the way we would live forever. Agriculture gave rise to stable societies; it made it possible for a massive increase in population, allowed for material progress, and enabled the spread of knowledge. First people began to used primitive stones tools in 400,000 B.C.E. Then from 400,000 to 11,000 B.C.E., the Paleolithic period, people survived as nomads. From 11,000 to…

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    Water is one of the most significant factor for a civilization to rise. Every civilization begins with its proximity to specific bodies of water and China is no different. The evidence of Chinese civilization’s beginning can be traced back in the Yellow river (Daniels/ Hyslop, p.60). Water also legitimizes leadership. Advanced irrigation and flood control system of their time were priorities to some kingdom for this increased overall production. The Roman aqueduct is an exemplary example of this…

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