Prehistory

Archaologists have only found skeletal remains of Homo sapiens in the New World, however Homo erectus and previous life forms have been found in the old world, implying that Homo sapiens crossed into the New World in the time of the ice age. The only explanation as to how the migration occurred is a land bridge connecting Northeast Asia to Alaska, however there is no land connecting the two in present day, only a strait that is fifty six miles wide at its narrowest point, and approximately 180…

The Mediterranean was heavily influenced by numerous waves of colonization during the Archaic Greek through Roman periods (c. 750BCE-AD400). Frequent voyages over land and sea meant that different social groups were beginning to interacting with one another. One group that ushered in an age of colonization in the Mediterranean region were the Greeks, who prior to exploration were cultivators of the land (Wilson, 2006:27). However, because their homeland was mountainous prime regions for…

Understanding Japan’s Culture Culture is the collection of all the physical and intangible manifestations of human knowledge and achievement of a society or societal subgroup (Chapter 9, n.d.). Culture can include art and artistic knowledge, for example. All cultures share several fundamental characteristics in common. Culture is shared – passed from person to person and group to group in a variety of ways. Culture is learned – children and adults are taught culture by others, through both…

“Will Women Still Need Me?” by Barbara Ehrenreich in the “The Writer 's Presence A Pool of Readings Eight Edition” page five hundred ninety eight. This is an argumentative writing that author claimed that is an issue in between both sexes; man and woman. This topic immediately made me pondering for questions like: Is that anything wrong with the relationship in the current society? Is author has a personal relationship or marriage issue, therefore she questioned about the need of man in woman’s…

Assignment 2 Institutions have been ubiquitous in the human experience, since the first civilizations. From simple councils of wise men in prehistory, to the deep rooted bureaucracy of the American executive, they have been indispensable in the carrying out of everyday life. Unger and Johnson both stress the importance of institutions- Unger because they can be used as tools to enhance democracy in markets, politics and empower individuals- Knight/Johnson because they should prioritize…

In the book “A History of World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage, it talks about 6 drinks that are quite popular, and how they came to be. Standage wrote about how these drinks took different important roles and wrote about their history. In this essay, I will speak about the origins of beer and wine, and how each beverage brought upon new things that helped the development of humankind. Beer and wine are both alcoholic beverages, that till this day are still existent and have changed through out…

nations a factor that led to their association with the Germanic peoples. (Griffiths and Harding 2015: 22) Thus when the Nazi party gained power, Aryan supports such as Gustaf Kossinna whose work on Norse/Vikings runes became incorporated in Germanic prehistory further equated Aryans to Norsemen and by association Germans. (Orrling 2000: 362) Like much of the Nazi ideology the blending of Norse/Viking as having purely Germanic origins is a stretch at best however, for Kossinna and Chamberlin the…

A Scandal in Bohemia We have been telling stories ever since the first cave paintings. Stories are important to any society. When you’re young your parents/grandparents would tell you stories about some amazing people and not so amazing people. My grandma would tell me stories about anything you could think of, ‘’One day John and Steve went to go get water for their family and a big brown bear came out of the woods running at Steve and without hesitation John picked up the biggest stick he…

When I first began college I was not sure what major would be best suited for my career choice, but after a few meetings with a counselor I chose chemistry, which correlates to an associates of science degree at Columbus State. As an associates of science major, I am required to complete a few general education classes along with my required science and math classes. Columbus State Community College demands the completion of one history, literature, and an elective, along with two social and…

As stated in The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles, women were much more useful than men when it came to supplying food for their tribes: “At no point in prehistory did women, with or without their children, rely on their hunting males for food” (Miles). The food that women gathered, such as plants or berries, was far more plentiful than the meat gained from the males’ hunting. In prehistoric groups, women…