Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: Western Civilization. Man understood the laws of nature and could put them to use to create goods and services for his comfort and necessities.Agriculture was t

Complete 7 pages APA formatted article: Western Civilization. Man understood the laws of nature and could put them to use to create goods and services for his comfort and necessities.

Agriculture was the basis for the founding of ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Chinese, European, and American Civilizations. The nomadic societies gave way to agricultural societies as people started to grow crops and own cattle while living on the banks of major rivers. The agricultural communities slowly gave way to emergence of cities during the time of city-states. Though, the movement for art and culture began in the ancient civilizations, it got buried in the layers of time in the Dark Ages. The Renaissance in Europe was chiefly a movement for revival of art, culture and literature. Today, these elements are integral to the modern civilization. However, the element that most influenced the early human communities was the development of language. With the development of language, people could share ideas, communicate. develop knowledge and share, store and retrieve information and maintain records. The Sumerians maintained records through clay tablets. Vast libraries were created to store human knowledge. Similarly, there is evidence of use of language in ancient European, Chinese, and the American civilizations.

Due to the low lying topography of Egypt, the river Nile flowed from the mountains, with an average height of 6000 ft, in the south, to the Mediterranean in the north. The river deeply impacted the life and culture of ancient Egypt and the country was rightly called the gift of Nile by Herodotus. The Pyramid Texts declare Nile as the canal of happiness.