HIS-117 Rough Draft Final Porject
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Sabrina Heagy
Professor Hayes
HIS-117
11/12/2023
Rough Draft
When civilization was new, and people were just beginning, they learned quickly how to
survive. They made languages, traveled in groups, and evolved with their surroundings. They
learned how to protect themselves, they created agriculture, and learned how to account for what
they created and harvested. They learned to trade with other people, created a social system, and
taught each other skills such as weaving, woodworking and textiles. Humans created societies,
states, and empires from the late Neolithic period to 1500 CE in order to find growth for the
continuation of society.
The prominent religion in Medieval Britian was Christianity. They believed in only one
God, making it a monotheistic religion. “Christianity served as the principal source of religious,
moral, and cultural authority.” (1. Bentley, et.al, 144) Medieval Europe began making the same
economic and social growth that their predecessors did, with the expansion of agriculture,
manufacturing, urbanization, and trade. They had a social hierarchy that kept the poor quite poor
and the wealthy very wealthy. They held to a Three Estates rule or the three social classes, made
up of men of the clergy or cloth, royals, and peasants. The royals oversaw fighting for the
protection of the peasants who worked for them in their fields and warehouses. This made it
possible for the growth of society and for individuals who lived in it.
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The people in charge of Britian followed the Christian church, passing laws to stop the
persecution of Christian peoples while telling missionaries and traveling bishops to reuse pagan
places of worship to represent Christ. “The combination of historic records and archaeology
indicates that by the end of the fourth century, the religion was well spread, and Christian Britons
were playing an active role in Continental politics with the attendance of bishops at the Council
of Arles.” (3. Creager, Dynamics, 223) The people of Britian were forced, in a way, to follow this
new God so they could work together with the same goals and rules to follow.
The Greeks created society to protect the people from invasion. Between the Spartans,
who trained their boys for battle at age eight, and, after initial failure, Athens, that became the
epicenter of progress, the Greeks became a society that protected its people and wanted them to
prosper. “Under the leadership of Pericles, Athens became the most sophisticated of the poleis,
with a vibrant community of scientist, philosophers, poets, dramatists, artists, and architects.” (1.
Bentley et al.,88) They were known for being very forward thinking, and for prosperity. They
believed in multiple Gods and trained their warriors under certain banners to gain favor from
them. This combination of growth and free thinking was good for the growth of their society and
for the individual thinker.
The Greeks were a people who created to grow. Trade was the economic boom letting
people learn new concepts from foreign places and make their personal wealth. “In the context of
economic egalitarianism, trade contacts evolved as relationships of mutual advantage, making
the community a commonwealth. Among the preferred trade goods were obsidian, shells
(spondylus, in particular), salt and copper. Objects with ritual functions, such as figurines, may
also have been considered valuable goods to trade.” (2. Haarman, 184) These great means of
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trade between the commonwealth, or the everyday man, and the rest of humanity was a way for
them to create a growing society as a whole.
Mesopotamia seems to be the combination of common defense in the sense that they took
care of each other and incoming migrants, and growth of individuals as they expanded, until the
conquering of Sargon of Akkad. After Sargon took over trading routes and made cities pay for
his housing and armies without return, the people hated him for taking from his own people. This
battle strategy was used by many after him though and was something that would be passed
down through generations in stories. They had multiple Gods, who eventually would evolve over
time to become the Gods of other religions. This growth in society with the trading route meant
more for the individuals within the society and for the growth of that society to prosper.
All three of these societies made mistakes. They changed the way that they ruled over
each other, shuffled through religions like a card game, and persecuted people that believed
differently than they did. But they made sure that their society stayed standing through it all the
best that they could. They created art, music, agriculture, democracy, and science. They made the
world what it is today by pushing to create from nothing, everything. Humans created societies,
states, and empires from the late Neolithic period to 1500 CE in order to find growth for the
continuation of society.
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Bentley, Jerry H., Herbert F. Ziegler, Heather Streets-Salter, and Craig Benjamin. 2021.
Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. New York, NY, NY: McGraw
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2.
Harald Haarmann. 2014. Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization : The Influence of Old
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