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We can immediately think of different features: styles in art, architecture and music; different writing scripts; a distinct literature; a particular set of religious beliefs; noteworthy forms of government; special practices – for example, gladiators (Rome), caste (India) and so on. And of course, all civilizations occur at a particular time and place in world history.
For example, you will all know which civilization I am talking about when I mention pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs and pharaohs. Ancient Egypt, of course.
Nothing I’ve said above, however, is quite as it seems. Taking Ancient Egypt as an example, the Egyptians only built pyramids at one phase of their history. Hieroglyphs were not used in everyday life. Sometimes the land of Ancient Egypt was ruled by foreigners, not native pharaohs. Their religious beliefs changed over time. And yes, they certainly embalmed bodies – but so did many other ancient peoples.
Other civilizations changed much more drastically. The ancient Romans began their history under the rule of kings, before changing to a republic, and then an empire. They spent much of their history as pagans, but later converted to Christianity. In their early days they built Greek-style temples; by the end they were building great domed cathedrals. They even ended up in an entirely different location: starting out in central Italy, the last people who considered themselves “Romans” died defending a city in what is today Turkey.
All civilizations show these sorts of changes, to a lesser or greater extent, and yet, most of us know what is meant when we hear the phrase “Ancient Egyptian civilization” or “Ancient Roman civilization”.
Of course, as historians (professional and amateur), we expect all civilizations to change over time: they grow and spread, their cultures evolve, their political systems change. But what is really interesting (for me, at any rate) is, when one civilization changes into another.
This issue lies behind such questions as: when did the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia come to an end? What exactly happened to the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome? Can the civilization of China be truly regarded as a single, long-enduring civilization, or do the outward continuities mask one or more break-points?
How does a civilization, which over the course of centuries or millennia has been gradually changing, change so drastically that it can no longer be regarded as the same civilization?
In a series of blog posts I’m going to look at this matter with regard to particular civilizations.
Because the economy went up. It was known as the Roaring Twenties, where the economy was booming and everyone was making a good amount of money.
NOT a motivation of Congressional Republicans:
D) Congressional leaders wanted to restore the Union as quickly as possible.
President Lincoln had wanted to restore the Union as quickly as possible. His 10 Percent Plan would have r<span>equired just 10 percent of the voters in the states that had seceded to guarantee their allegiance to the United States and to affirm the emancipation of slaves --and that would be enough to restore those states to the Union and have them draft new state constitutions.
A number of the Republican leaders in Congress came to be known as Radical Republicans. They believed </span><span>Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was too lenient. They wanted harsh terms, to punish the South for creating the need for war. The </span>Radical Republicans<span> sought to control the Reconstruction process and impose major changes upon the southern states. The Radical Republicans grew in power in the postwar years, and came into strong conflict with Lincoln's successor, Pres. Andrew Johnson, over how Reconstruction would proceed.</span><span>
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Answer:
d. The Lusitania was sunk in 1917.
Explanation:
This statement is wrong. The Lusitania, a British trasatlantic passenger ship, was sunk in 1915, not in 1917, by a German submarine. It is one of the causes of the United States entering WWI.