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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[file:posneg.jpg|left|200px|]] One way of analyzing in an essay is by evaluating whether a particular event/topic had a positive or negative effect on the civilization, nation, or society.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
* How does geography (rivers, river valleys, mountains, oceans, deserts, rain forests) affect a civilization?<br />
* Positive<br />
** Deserts, Mountains, Oceans, protect from Invasion<br />
** River Valleys provide fertile soil for farming (Nile, Tigris & Euphrates, Indus, Huang He)<br />
** Rivers for transportation and movement of goods<br />
** Monsoons bring needed rain for crops<br />
** Natural Deep Harbors allow for country's to build ships for trading and a navy<br />
* Negative<br />
** Deserts limit trade<br />
** Mountains hinder a country's ability unify<br />
** Oceans & Rain Forests hinder exploration<br />
** Rivers can divide tribes<br />
** Monsoons bring flooding<br />
** Upper latitudes and cold climate causing harbors frozen limiting the ability of ports for trade or a navy<br />
** Colonies during age of Imperialism set up along geographic boundaries without any consideration for ethnic or tribal boundaries<br />
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== Nationalism ==<br />
How does nationalism or pride and devotion for your country or nation affect a civilization?<br />
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* Positive - Unifies country or nation<br />
** Germany (1871)<br />
** Italy (1866)<br />
* Negative - Splits up a country or nation into separate parts<br />
** Yugoslavia - In 1990s breaks up into (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia) along ethnic and religious lines<br />
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== Imperialism ==<br />
How does imperialism or one country taking over another country or area, politically, socially, and/or economically affect a civilization?<br />
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* Positive<br />
** Improving communications by building communication systems such as telegraph & telephone<br />
** Providing education<br />
** Providing transportation systems such as canals, roads and railroads<br />
** Providing improved medical care<br />
** Providing better methods of sanitation<br />
** Providing improved methods of food production<br />
* Negative<br />
** Providing a cheap labor force for the mother country<br />
** Slavery introduced by sending foreign workers to the colonies as "free" labor<br />
** Indentured Servitude as a form of slavery to provide cheap labor<br />
** Natural resources of the colony taken for the benefit of the mother country<br />
** Once the colony receives independence, the country has difficulty due to ethnic and religious boundaries.<br />
** Colonies formed along geographic boundaries not ethnic or tribal boundaries causing civil wars.</div>MainPage>Admin