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Humans have populated every environment on earth. We live on the frozen tundra and in the searing deserts. We live in thriving cities of millions and in isolated camps of a few dozen. Some societies seem simple because they are small and their members are selfsufficient and use simple tools. Others seem complex because they have large populations and people depend on each other for food and goods and use sophisticated technology. In between, there is a range that fills the spectrum. All of these differences are cultural, learned behavior, the result of a complex interaction between our inventiveness and our natural environments. As we search for new horizons, our inventiveness thrusts us across the boundaries of space, into new worlds. This new view of earth dispels an ancient myopia the artificial boundaries of our states and the politics that often divide us. Here is a vision of one planet and one family of humankind. But the view from earth reminds us of a common human dilemma, the ....
We live on the frozen tundra and in the searing deserts. We live in thriving cities of millions and in isolated camps of a few dozen. Some societies seem simple because they are small and their members are selfsufficient and use simple tools. Others seem complex because they have large populations and people depend on each other for food and goods and use sophisticated technology. In between, there is a range that fills the spectrum. All of these differences are cultural, learned behavior, the result of a complex interaction between our inventiveness and our natural environments. As we search for new horizons, our inventiveness thrusts us across the boundaries of space, into new worlds. This new view of earth dispels an ancient myopia the artificial boundaries of our states and the politics that often divide us. Here is a vision of one planet and one family of humankind. But the view from earth reminds us of a common human dilemma, the rise and fall of our many ways of life. Here, amon ....
With the force of their own personalities. They build temples and huge stone billboards to prop up royal dynasties that have little actual power. They perform gruesome rituals that require the skins of other people. They go to war and capture players for their ball games games where the losers never play again. Today, inside ancient pyramids, archaeologists face real danger to bring the story of these kings and their politics out of the past. Before the arrival of europeans, two extraordinary civilizations flourished in mesoamerica. Both the aztecs and the maya had cultures of startling sophistication, and political systems that were enormously complex. Archaeologists are intrigued by ancient political systems. They want to know how these systems were organized and how they evolved. Archaeologist Arthur Demarest. Throughout the course of human history, societies have bece ever more complex. Political systems have developed some s ....
Country. Department of labors tracking entrepreneurs. As the president was implementing his spending agenda, that agenda that took us from record high deficits of the bush administration, to record deficits three times higher in the Obama Administration. The number of new establishments, entrepreneurial activity, for the yearending march 2010 march, 2010, was lower than any other year since the series began. Since they began keeping record, mr. Speaker. In 2010 under this administrations stimulus policies, entrepreneurial activity was at the lowest level in america since we began keeping records. I dont mean at the lowest level of people succeeding. I mean the lowest level of people trying. The lowest level of people trying, mr. Speaker. What does it mean about us . What does it mean about our future when we have beaten the enthusiasm to try out of our people . Frightened it out of our people. Mr. Speaker, thats not just a d ....
To uncover the roots of power, prestige and wealth. In the pyramids and monuments of the ancient maya, workers search for clues to the emergence of a vanished civilization. These are the ruins of the ancient city of copan, honduras. Dozens of stone monuments, called stelae, proclaim the power of mighty beings. Until experts could read these carved hieroglyphs, most scholars thought these largerthanlife figures represented maya gods. But we now know they are portraits of copans rulers, with names like butz chan. Smoke shell. And the most powerful of all, 18 rabbit. The maya called them cul ahau, or divine lord. The title was inherited. We call them kings since they passed their power to brothers or sons. A dynasty of 16 kings ruled copan for 400 years. How did they first acquire their power . And how were the maya governed before the kings . To answer such questions, archaeologists discuss their ideas of political change. Which says, heres the resolution, but youve got no enforcement. W ....