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Selfishness, pride, greed, lust for wealth, power and pleasures, are the main reasons that either a person or a society end up badly. Humans are more prone to follow the ‘downward path’ than put effort to reach ‘higher’. Continue reading “What reasons cause people or even entire civilizations to self-destruct? Is it inevitable in some cases?”
Byzantine tendencies toward urbanization and feudalization and the concomitant economic development in the provinces in the eleventh and twelfth centuries certainly affected contemporary culture, although different sectors of society reacted in distinct ways. Ιn Byzantium the peasantry and craft-working classes have left few traces. Continue reading “Popular and Aristocratic cultural trends in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire”
by Thomas F. Dritsas
Let us firstly take a look at some of the medical writings, the physicians and the hospitals that existed in Christian Romania: Continue reading “The Culture & civilization of Romania (Christian Roman Empire)”
Using energy consumption as a measure, a team of international scientists has found that ancient civilizations engaged in globalization more than previously believed, suggesting that an integrated global economy is nothing new and may have benefited societies for ages. Continue reading “International study suggests ancient globalization”
Archeologists have discovered 10 sites of ancient civilization in the Badain Jaran Desert, China’s third largest desert located in northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Continue reading “Archeologists discover traces of ancient civilization in Chinese desert”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by C. Fred Alford. Continue reading “Greek Tragedy and Civilization: The Cultivation of Pity”
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