Influence of Ancient Civilizations on Today's World

Civilizations have been around for hundreds of thousand years. Before civilizations were formed, humans spent most of their time moving from place to place, hunting for food, and learning how to build shelter for themselves from wild animals. Slowly, people started to settle down in one place. Civilizations formed and they were some of the most influential civilizations on the world today. The Egyptians, Hebrews, Greeks, and Roman have connected the relationships with leaders and nature. The sources written during these times show how the civilizations influenced our world today. “The Story of Isis and Osiris” is a story of the Egyptian pharaoh, Osiris, and his wife, Isis. These two rulers bring civilization to their people through agriculture.

It shows how Demeter, the goddess of harvest and agriculture, presides over the grains of the earth once her daughter is taken to live with Hades in the underworld. Zeus, Persephone’s father, was on board with Hades idea to have Persephone for himself. Zeus came to an agreement with Demeter, “every time the season came round, she would spend a third portion of the year in the realms of the dark mist underneath, and the other two thirds in the company of her mother and the other immortals” (Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 8) Everyone is suffering from the time that Persephone goes to the underworld and this has influenced our world today. The 3 months she will be with Hades is the world’s understanding of winter. Winter is a time when nothing grows and the grains are dead and nothing is prospering. But when Persephone returns to her mother, this is our world’s understanding of springtime. Everything starts to grow during the springtime and it is a lively time to prosper and grow. The myth shows how the god Demeter uses her power over the people which results in the world understanding the seasons

Several prisoners are chained in a cave and they cannot move from the wall. They only can see figures that move behind the wall and this has composed their entire reality. We are living in a world where ever one has some different opinions, judgments, and ideology from other people. Everyone has formed their own perspective of the world we live. “The Allegory of the Cave” shows that we can relate to the prisoners because our view, like them, is based on experience. Most of our ideas and beliefs are based on things we have heard from others or through social media. TVs and the internet are a big part of how people observe the world. This has influenced the way people think and see the world for