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    Loss of Civilization After a plane crash carrying a group of young British school boys, they are left to survive without any adults and protect themselves from all the danger this island might create. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the boys at first try to make rules that relate to their civilization back home. Early in the story, Roger can not adapt to the new way of life and is still trying remain civilized like the other boys, but when there is a loss of order and fears of the island

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    towns, the people normally had the same religion, culture, laws, and economy. The members in a society are what make up a civilization. When these people flourish together as a society, the civilization improves and becomes more advanced with knowledge and technology. In order for a society to be a civilization, first it must have a social structure. In the first civilizations, there was an upper class of priests, merchants, warriors, and political heroes and a lower class of free people who were

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    The start of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution led directly to the beginning of civilization. The Neolithic Revolution, which happened 10,000 years ago, was the shift from hunter-gathers to a food-producing culture meaning humans started to farm and domesticate animals. This was the catalyst to help create civilizations. We know now how to distinguish groups of humans from actual civilization if those groups have certain characteristics. Those characteristics are complex institutions, record

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    The definition of civilization is an advance state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. Various components must meet up before a human group creates to the level of modernity regularly alluded to as civilization. The primary is the presence of settlements classifiable as towns or urban communities. This obliges nourishment creation to be sufficiently proficient for a vast minority of the group to be occupied with more specific exercises

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    many things can be learned. Using archaeological methods, ancient civilizations have been brought back to life in the modern day. We have gleaned much from the discoveries in Egypt, China, India, and Rome, many of which give us an idea as to why we have certain practices and beliefs today. These ancient civilizations were very different, but also had many similarities despite being in different parts of the world. The first civilization to be discussed is Egypt, one of the best known societies from

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    Now in retrospect, civilizations did in fact have their very own significant ways of distributing their influence throughout history. Three ways civilizations differentiated their influences are through conquest, trade and the contributions of those civilizations. These influences contributed to today’s modern society and every influence whether religious, the age, whereabouts and culture of a civilization scientific discoveries/developments and customs have shaped and make up the foundations of

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    Geography has impacted many cultures and religions, as well as where people settle down to grow a civilization. Geography has impacted may civilizations throughout the years such as but not limited to, the Incas, the Mayans, the early hunter gatherer societies, the Chinese, the Egyptians, as well as the Indians. Civilizations tended to grow near mountains, rivers, and coastlines, most notable civilization that grew on the river was the Egyptians. Egyptians were mainly able to survive because of the

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    The Mesopotamian civilization was a very successful civilization because it was located near big rivers. With the river so close, it gave them access to easy transportation and a surplus of water. The climate was not extreme so the housing was just small little huts. And the land near the river is where they would farm for their income for food. This land was always good because sometimes the river would flood and replenish the land. With all the food they had, it was also a way for them to trade

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    Civilization. A word we use to define the proper and advanced ways of which we work and act as human beings. A word of which Huck Finn finds too confusing and can live and do without. He believes that civilization is too restrictive and, instead, wants to live a free and joyful life as an individualist. To Huck, civilization means the end of his freedom. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck rejects civilization because he does not want to be told what is right or wrong. Huck finds

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    The Hopewell people were a religious cult like civilization that lasted from 200 BC to 500 AD. Who flourished in Northeastern and Midwestern America around rivers. Some objects we have found from this civilization include a mica hand, pipes, copper spider, pots, copper falcons, and a bird head. They were actually first known as the Adena civilization, but later became the Hopewell. The Hopewell tradition was not a single cultural society, but a widely dispersed set of people. They worshiped a goddess

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