One main reason for studying civilization is TO REVEAL THE CONTRIBUTION OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
Everything has an origin and humans of nowadays are product of men of yesterday. Men study history in order to understand our origin and how far we have progress through time. Comparing the knowledge of present societies with the ancient ones help us to become aware of how the ancient civilization has contributed to today's developments.
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It was mainly due to our unpreparedness for such an attack. We were totally unprepared and most of our ammo and equipment were stored somewhere else instead of the ships or in safely stored in locked cages, according to peacetime regulations. Prior to Pearl Harbor, intelligence officers suspected that the Japanese might strike the U.S. territory, but they highly suspect it would be the Philippines, not Hawaii, because no one could have thought that the Japanese would come a thousand of miles from their country to Hawaii and bypass our military bases in islands which were near Japan. At the same time, we were negotiating with the Japanese Empire for peace negotiations while the Japanese secretly planned a major airstrike upon U.S. targets behind our backs. Tokyo have always signaled warnings for peace so we took the offer seriously and without conditions, giving us the impression that we were on the right road.
<span>Many of the military men at Pearl Harbor as well as the civilians in the city of Honolulu were just living there lives as usual as any regular day until the sounds of planes roared over the Hawaiian skies and blast away the ships and other targets, and sent the city's population in fear and anger. We were not at war and we didn't expect that a foreign nation would came in to strike upon our soil.</span>
The Ottoman Empire expanded to quickly and during war time which the economy was hurt by insurgents lead by Lawrence of Arabia, the siege of Gallipoli and British Invasion
