This Is An Essay That Will Be About The Contributions Of Early Civilizations Hav

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This is an essay that will be about the contributions of early civilizations have influenced  modern western society.  Some contributions that have affected modern society have come from four main early civilizations.  Those civilizations are Greece, Rome, India, and China.  In this essay I will list and describe some of these civilization’s contributions.  Contributions that have shaped the way our civilization is.
     One of the earliest civilizations that made major contributions is Greece.  Greece has many other small contributions, but three really sick out in my mind.  The first being the Greek government.  The government in most parts of Greece like Athens was a direct democracy.  A direct democracy is when the people had the power by voting.  People directly affected their governments.  The main difference between then and now is we vote through representatives.  The second main contribution was the Olympics.  The Olympics started out as events just held for the Greeks.  They later development it into a international event.  This is very important because it is now a bringing together of many different nations.  The third main contribution to modern civilization is the Greek’s architecture.  We have taken many architectural ideas from the Greeks.  We use things like pillars and just basic structural ideas.  For example look at the buildings in Washington DC  Just this one place shows how much we’ve adapted from ancient Greece.
      The second ancient civilization which we have really adapted from is Rome.  Rome actually adapted many things from the Greeks so many things are the same.  The Romans did come up with some very good stuff of their own.  Especially their law and justice system.  We have really adapted a lot from certain parts of their laws and justice system.  We have taken their ways of trails by jury and some of their ways of punishment.  We have also adapted some of the...

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