Essay - Contributions of Ancient, Early Church, Middle Ages, and Renaissance Civilizations...

Contributions of Ancient, Early Church, Middle Ages, and Renaissance Civilizations to the Contemporary Western Civilization

***** primary civilizations had emerged to form ***** first civilization of mankind—that of the Mesopotamia, and Egyptian civilizations. Although other important civilizations had been *****ed during the ancient times such as the Sumerian and Akkadian empires, the important contributions and use ***** innovations and progress of the three aforementioned civilizations had influenced and developed the Western Civilization of today, thus, the focus of this paper will be on the contributions ***** ***** ***** and Mesopotamian civilization to the present civilization of mankind.

***** of the primary contributions of the ancient civilization ***** ***** Western civilization is the development of a water irrigation system. Through ***** development ***** ***** irrigation *****, the *****s were able to cultivate plants ***** their food, giving way ***** the development of agriculture. The need to establish laws regarding ***** control and management as well as the growing prosperity of ***** Mesopotamian ***** gave way to the formulation of laws, and Mesopotamians began forming 'armies,' or a group ***** warriors to defend *****mselves from invaders who want ***** take-over ***** prosperous civilization. Through this, the legal ***** military systems, as ***** as technological innovation such as ***** water irrigation, and the ***** of ***** became ***** major ***** ***** the Mesopotamian civilization to the Western civilization.

*****, or the Nile civilization, also contributed numerous ***** to ***** civilization, particularly in ***** area of religion and the arts. Since the Egyptian civilization ***** not encountered water problems in *****ir agriculture because ***** the presence of Nile River (which does ***** flood at *****definite times, as contrasted by Mesopotamia's Tigris-Euphr*****es River), the Egyptians focused instead in other areas of study, ***** as the development ***** calendars, to moni*****r the time and number of days to avoid ***** event wherein Nile River will overflow; hieroglyphics was also developed as a form ***** communic*****tion, ***** eventually, writing; astronomy flourished as a science, *****nd religion is encouraged, particularly the worship to many gods (polytheism) that will help improve Egyptian *****. ***** the Egyptian *****, calendars, astronomy, writing, and the practice of religion was further *****.

***** the ancient civilization, mankind had developed more complex forms of organization, ***** along with the formation of complex organizations, there were different priorities to attend to. Of one particular development in the his*****ry of mankind is the reign ***** the Catholic Church in the world as it emerged to be the most important and fundamental organization after the fall of the Roman Empire. During the 5th century, Chr*****tianity became the focus ***** ***** society, and the Early Church ***** developed.

In the Early ***** civilization, the development of church communities became imperative for the society. The Church began developing a hier*****rchical organization, ***** ***** bishops became the leaders, while the priests are the bishop's subordinates. Aside from the Church hierarchy, Christianity was disseminated and implemented as the official religion of the people during the ***** century, especially in the Western