Ancient Civilizations: Are they so Ancient? Throughout history, there have been many things to indicate why contemporary events occur. Not Nostradamus like predictions, merely the fact that current events have occurred many years ago in one form or another. These are issues such as warfare, oppression of women, and empire building. If one were to look at each one of these issues, they would find that each one was present in some or all of …showed first 75 words of 1591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1591 total…problem of having a bad growing season with your crops. The myths and philosophy looked at was used to deal with these problems and helping their own people deal with problems such as these. We can use these myths and philosophy as a testament to the fact that they were real live people just as we are. This will show that history can help us understand what is happening right now at this very moment.