To What Extent Has the Impact of Ancient Civilizations Been Positive or Negative?

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To what extent has the impact of ancient civilizations been positive or negative? To what extent has the impact of ancient civilization been positive or negative? This essay will be returning to the guiding question. The essay is going to be talking about all 4 civilizations, which are: * Ancient Egypt * Ancient China * Persian Empire * Indus Valley I will be balancing the positive and negative impacts of each civilizations listed above on the modern day life. Ancient Egypt: Ancient Egypt has survived for thousands of years. Egypt was one of the greatest civilizations of the past. The monuments and tombs of their Pharaohs continue to stand intact today, some 4,000 years later. Egypt is located in the northeast corner of the Africa. A large river called the River Nile flows through the country into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile enters Egypt from the Sudan and flows north for about 1545 km (about 960 m) to the sea. Egypt is mainly made up of hot deserts and receives little rainfall. Without the River Nile, the area would be entirely desert. It is a very interesting civilization to investigate and learn about, there is a lot of evidence Pharaohs, Rulers, and people in general had left behind. There was a lot of positives, perhaps a lot of negatives in Ancient Egypt that impact us nowadays. Medicine and Education were the 2 major positives, which have a huge impact on the modern life. There were also plenty of negative things, 2 majors things were: waste of natural resources, freedom of workers, in other words slavery. Egypt had invented so many things, major and minor. Medicine was a huge, and important invention. They had discovered medicine, if you were sick at the ancient times, the best place to be would be Egypt. Ancient Egypt had one of the best medicines in the whole wide world, they found a cure for nearly all the diseases,

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