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    While the Egyptian and Indus River Valley civilizations were two of the earliest known communities, they were also among the most influential, especially in areas like culture and social structure. Although Egypt and the Indus River Valley shared many aspects of culture like similar forms of religion and expansion, they also greatly differed in the area of social structure because of their individually unique class divisions and views of leadership. Both the Egyptian civilization and the Indus…

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    Hygieia Greek Goddess

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    Hygieia, is designed with a marble exterior, making the statue seem as it is of Greek origin however this statue has an origin dating back to Roman times, during 200-250 A.D. Hygieia is the daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine; a personification of good health, she was typically portrayed feeding a coiled snake, a reference to the serpent-entwined rod wielded by her father that later came to symbolize the healing arts. Her cultural image often merged with other deities, such as Aphrodite…

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    Athenian democracy was one of the first known democracies. Most of other Greek cities follow the Athenian model of democracy. Athenian democracy was a direct democracy. Direct democracy is a political system in which the people vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right and they do not elect the representatives to vote on their behalf. However, the participation in this activity was not open. Women, children, and slaves were not allowed to vote because they were not considered as…

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    Culture is formed through the certain group of people, who believe and follow specific religion, beliefs, values, and hierarchies which is widespread throughout the world. The spread of culture is making countries across the world multicultural countries through the migration of people with same culture settling in different countries in massive quantities. Culture is the root to knowledge, experience, and it puts the meanings in the world for ideas and issues that educated today. Culture is an…

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    Introduction To Buddhism

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    about issues of suffering. Buddhist worldview, understanding is that life and the world do not have a beginning and an end. Buddhist does not believe that God Almighty which is higher power created the world. They believe per Webster dictionary .com Pantheon is the belief that the universe our nature is the entity of everything it is identical with divinity everything…

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    Maurice’s History of Hindostan: Its Arts, and its Sciences first published in 1795, John Zephaniah Holwell’s Interesting Historical Events relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan, published in 1767, and Edward Moor’s Hindu Pantheon, published in…

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    The most scandalous of love affairs in existence has to be the fling of Demeter and Hephaestus; surpassing in awe factor the indiscretions of Zeus himself. The two divinities’ night of fun resulted in a pregnancy of twins. Hephaestus knew that if Aphrodite found out about his involvement with Demeter there would surely be hell to pay; and, of course, Demeter also did not wish for her fellow Olympians to judge her. Together, the two devised a plan to hide the physical evidences of Demeter’s…

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    The Roman Empire Essay

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    from the hills. They provided fresh water to drink and bathe in. Roman used Greek idea but just made them on bigger scale (which is called grandeur) with little improvements. They improved on arches, domes, and on vaulted roofs. For example: The Pantheon which is a famous dome shaped structure found in Rome. Their buildings and structures are not only things that they copied and adapted with. They also copied Greeks’ sense of realism within their artwork. Although Roman Engineering was impactful…

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    “For most of us, Richard the Lionheart has been ensconced since childhood in a pantheon which includes King Arthur, Robin Hood and other legendary – if not mythical- figures: and as a “folk hero” […] it is unlikely that he will ever be dislodged.”1 That is, at least, the view of John Gillingham, a British scholar, specialist of Richard I, but not of all historians, who have generally more conflicted opinions on the Lionheart. Richard I is still, to a certain extent, seen as an English hero. It…

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    Salo Indians Essay

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    Indians to Catholicism, they would be freeing them and showing them the “best” way to live. Some of the Indians converted, but many of them continued to “practice their old religion and add Jesus, Mary, and the Catholic Saints to their spiritual pantheon.” They believed that they could serve their spiritual “God” while also incorporating this new religion. This created a problem with the Spanish and decided that those who didn’t fully convert would be punished. In an interview with Pedro Naranjo…

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