Civilization Is Gone Summary

One shall rise, and one shall fall. It’s a common cycle that’s been prevalent throughout history. It is also a cycle that the world has seen time and time again, the rise and fall of empires followed by the rise of new empires. A perfect analogy would be the cycle of birth, development and death. This process allows the human population to grow and progress. This works the same way for civilizations. When civilizations collapse, they open the door for newer and more modern civilizations to emerge. During the Late Bronze Age, several powerful eastern Mediterranean civilizations all came to a sudden and catastrophic end. A popular belief is the emergence of “Sea People”. However, Eric H. Cline, the author of “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed”, believes a series of unfortunate events was the actual culprit. My critique of “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed”will examine series of calamities that led to the collapse of the Late Bronze Age and how that affected a once stable international community that had been prospering for centuries.

Eric H. Cline the author of the book,”1177 The year Civilization Collapsed,” is a professor of classics and anthropology, and the director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington University. Some of the many other books that he has wrote are, From Eden to Exile: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Bible and The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean, and Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology. Eric H. Cline has also won numerous amounts of awards for his outstanding teaching, and his informative books. Some the awards he has won include, winning

The main theme of this book is how everyone in the city works hard in order to survive every day of the siege. The men on the hills and the ongoing war have thrown everyone’s lives into utter chaos. In the first chapter, the following quotation is repeated three times: “It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded” (Galloway 1, 3, 6). These two quotations serve as a connection to the beginning of the war and how a single mortar shell transforms the lives of tens of thousands of people.

In the article “Shattered Lives” by Kristin Lewis, Dania faces many challenges as a refuge, I can explain this by on page 7 the author stated that “It’s common to see children with nothing more than a pair of pajamas to wear.” This shows that is is very hard to get clothes in Syria. Also on page 10 the author said that “Dania had recently found out that a missile had destroyed their house in Syria.” This shows that the war is so big and violent that it is destroying houses in Syria so if the people come back they have nothing to live in.

Near the end of Fight Club, Tyler and the narrator form a group called Project Mayhem, a group of highly trained, well disciplined men that are hell bent on the destruction of Western Civilization. A real life Project Mayhem does not need to be a symbolic grand show of force. It does not take such talent and dedication to destroy millions, if not billions of American infrastructure. A team of half a dozen men with no military or private training could easily disrupt the lives of everyday Americans with a little bit of coordination. To start, all that one would need to do to destroy a line of fiber optic cable would be to dig it up and bend it until it cracks. That would destroy about a mile and a half of cable. Then, the power company would

I would like to start with the fact that I was not the kind of person who like to research or even study any kind of history, but since it was required, here I am ended up in this History class learning about civilization. The good thing is all the material that I learned really stimulate the curiosity side of my mind that pushed me to study more how civilization ended, so I chose this book by Eric H. Cline, which I thing is one amazing source of information. Although I googled maybe hundreds of words on each page I went through, I learned a lot about all causes that contributes to the end of the Late Bronze Age in eastern Mediterranean.

I’m going to writing about the bombing in Birmingham. If you don’t know about what, when, and how it happened this is the paper you’re looking. You might have questions about the things I talk about in this paper. But it’s ok because when I first started reading articles about my topic it was confusing. So relax, read this paper, and will you understand more about the bombing in Birmingham.

April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”

In both the novel and the article, one of the main reason the protagonist Bassam, and the syrian refugee wanted to leave home because it had turned into a corrupted warzone, where peace does not exist. As a matter of fact, their lands are getting invaded everyday, or it had simply turned into a fighting ground for war, such as the Syrian refugee’s case. Additionally, Bassam’s homeland became a landfill of corpses and everyday, he sees blood and people dying. In the novel “De Niro’s Game,” it states “Come down; they are targeting the neighbourhood. Come down and away from the window. How can you fall asleep like that? The bombs are all around us.” (Hage/page #80) Bassam and the Syrian refugee’s life of peace turned into a life of fear and danger. Additionally, they can no longer perform the norm, such as going to school

The word “collapse” has a number of connotations associated with it. Some view it exclusively the degradation of societies of the highest order. Others see it as the complete disintegration of economic prospects and commerce. Some even think of it political ruin with the demise of states and ruling factions that maintain order. The most general definition for collapse can includes elements from these three viewpoints. American anthropologist and historian Joseph A. Tainter is best known for his writings on societal collapses. In 1988 he published his most widely recognized work, The Collapse of Complex Societies.

In the article, the Syrian Crisis shows how other countries aren’t as safe as the United States since there are many bombings and children dying. The Syrians need help but are not getting much from others, “When we turn away from suffering that exists outside of our personal realm, we stop making informed decisions and we disconnect from humanity” (Derhally 2). A picture of a five-year-old boy from Aleppo changed how people viewed the Syrian Crisis. At first, everyone ignored the problem but then people started to realize they need some help. To his day, the people still do not get the help they need but the society has changed a little.

Diversity, justice, and sustainability are all intrinsically connected within our lives. In a sort of linear manner, these values all depend on one another to come to fruition. In the journal Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization, Derrick Jensen sums up the concept of sustainability and justice quite nicely in relation to revolutionizing civilization. He states that “we cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls” (Jensen 190). This can be interpreted to mean that without accepting diversity in a justified and conscientious manner, true sustainability in all aspects of life can never be reached. Within the confines of this given definition, there are many variables: diversity, justice, and sustainability

Cornell Notes Page 1 Chapter Title Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 C.E. Chapter # 5 The three civilizations tried to come together. Suffered a collapse from 200-500 C.E. Great civilizations First China then Mediterranean, then India. Outside the orbit they had their own ideas besides the ones during the classical period. Many changes were done in order to have the expansion done.

Francis Fukuyama; political scientist, economist, and author, in his article “The End of History?” discusses he rise and fall of major ideologies such as absolutism, fascism and communism, and suggests that human history should be viewed in terms of a battle of ideologies which has reached its end in the universalization of Western liberal democracy. Fukuyama concludes that the idea of Western liberal democracy has triumphed in the world through a variety of different ways and is a thriving piece of world order today. However, there are certain flaws to his argument including a US- centric view on the events of the twentieth century.

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