By Joshua Cole, Carol Symes
A storytelling technique that engages scholars with positive factors to assist them grasp center content material, imagine seriously, and make connections.
The attractive narrative and thoroughly crafted, leading edge pedagogical instruments in Western Civilizations are in accordance with the co-authors’ personal instructing stories. The textual content presents balanced assurance, locations the West in a bigger international context, and thoroughly integrates new examine. within the eighteenth version, the early smooth interval has been thoroughly overhauled—and now features a new bankruptcy at the Atlantic international.
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E. its inhabitants were undertaking a spectacular building program to protect their stored surplus of food. Many new dwellings were built on stone foundations, and a massive dressed stone wall was constructed around the western edge of the settlement. It included a circular tower whose excavated remains still reach to a height of thirty feet, a powerful expression of its builders’ wealth, technical prowess, and political ambitions. This wall and its tower served a growing and now permanent population: Jericho eventually covered at least eight acres and supported 3,000 people, so it was even more densely settled than Çatalhöyük.
Chapter 28 explores the vibrancy of European culture in the crucial period of the 1960s to the early 1990s, bringing new attention to the significance of 1989 as a turning point in European history. Finally, extensive revisions to Chapter 29, add to the issues covered in our treatment of Europe’s place in the contemporary globalized world. The chapter now includes a new section on efforts to deal with climate change, as well as expanded discussion of the impact of global terrorism, and recent developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Daytime temperatures in the Mediterranean basin averaged about 60° F (16° C) in the summer and about 30° F (–1° C) in the winter. These CA SU SP CAU CA BLACK SEA are very low compared to today’s temperatures in the city of Marseilles, not far from Lascaux, which average about 86° F (30° C) in summer and 52° F (11° C) in winter. Coldloving reindeer, elk, wild boars, bison, and mountain goats abounded in regions now famous for their beaches and vineyards. But as the glaciers receded northward with the warming climate, these species retreated with them, all the way to Scandinavia.