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The Persians ruled the region until conquered by Alexander the Great. The Hittites, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Arameans and others, each contributed to the development of the early world. Of all civilizations of the ancient Near East, the Israelites have perhaps had the most impact on the modern world.

Stories of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham, through Moses, to Saul, David, and Solomon, to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by the Romans, are shared and loved by billions today.

Many religions are practiced around the world. The diverse belief systems range from monotheism to polytheism, and include Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Classical Greece saw the world's first experiment with democracy in Athens. Major events included the Peloponnesian Wars. The hellenistic empire of Alexander the Great of Macedon and the kingdoms established by his successors changed the social and political landscape of the ancient world.

The ancient Romans are given the full treatment. Sections are divided into the establishment of the democratic Roman Republic, the Punic Wars, the civil war, the rise of the Roman Empire, and the barbarian invasions and migratory period in Europe which followed ancient Rome's collapse in C. The Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, grew in prominence as its sister empire to the west fell into ruin.

Particular emphasis is given to the famous Emperor Justinian. This empire lasted until it succumbed to the Ottoman Turks in , with the fall of Constantinople. Mohammed felt his religious calling, and proceeded to spread the ideas of Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula. Within a few centuries, Islamic beliefs, along with powerful Muslim empires, had spread throughout the Middle East and northern Africa, and into parts of Europe.

Medieval Europe is most commonly associated with knights, armor, chivalry, poverty, and ignorance. The marvels of Roman engineering were lost, only to be rediscovered during the Crusades, preserved and built upon by scholars of the Islamic world.

The Renaissance lifted Europe out of the Middle Ages, socially, economically, intellectually, and politically. The Medici and other powerful families dominated the city-states of Italy. The Scientific Revolution encompasses the explosion in scientific research and knowledge which grew out of the European Renaissance.

The sun was made the center of the galaxy, and the human body was explored to discover the workings of the circulatory system. Major scientists of this movement range from Copernicus and Galileo to Newton and Descartes. Global absolutism ruled the Western world. The sun king and other world leaders ruled by divine right. Questioning the monarchy was blasphemy. How dare anyone question the person put into power by God. From the Magna Carta through the development of the monarch as a figurehead, England later Great Britain, then the United Kingdom has, despite ups and downs and flaws, led the leading nations of the world in establishing participatory democracy.

The laws of England greatly impacted both the common and constitutional law of the United States and other former colonies. The European Enlightenment saw the nature and structure of human societies called into question. Rather than kings ruling by divine right, natural laws prevailed. Human beings engaged in a social contract, exchanging rights for societal protections.

Although ultimately defeated at Waterloo, Napoleon I inspired nationalistic fervor around the world. He was easily the most influential figure of the nineteenth century. The success of Napoleon I in spreading the ideals of the French Revolution across the globe led the monarchs of Europe to panic. TWG Channel. Submit your idea Your email. Your idea. Contact us Your email. Your name. IWGA Partner. Subscribe to the IWGA newsletter.

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Numerous movies based on video games have been released since. With a much larger library of games, lower price point, and successful marketing, the Genesis had leapfrogged ahead of the SNES in North America by this time. But Sega was unable to find similar success in Japan. With a leap in computer technology, the fifth generation of video games ushered in the three-dimensional era of gaming. In , Sega released in North America its Saturn system, the first bit console that played games on CDs rather than cartridges, five months ahead of schedule.

The following year, Nintendo released its cartridge-based bit system, the Nintendo Simply put: Sony dominated the video game market and would continue to do so into the next generation. In fact, the Playstation 2, released in and able to play original Playstation games, would become the best-selling game console of all time.

Sega pulled the plug on the system in , becoming a third-party software company henceforth. Though the Playstation 3—the only system at the time to play Blu-rays—was successful in its own right, Sony, for the first time, faced stiff competition from its rivals.

The Xbox , which had similar graphics capabilities to the Playstation 3, was lauded for its online gaming ecosystem and won far more Game Critics Awards than the other platforms in ; it also featured the Microsoft Kinect, a state-of-the-art motion capture system that offered a different way to play video games though the Kinect never caught on with core gamers or game developers.

And despite being technologically inferior to the other two systems, the Wii trounced its competition in sales. Its motion-sensitive remotes made gaming more active than ever before, helping it appeal to a much larger slice of the general public, including people in retirement homes. Towards the end of the decade and beginning of the next, video games spread to social media platforms like Facebook and mobile devices like the iPhone, reaching a more casual gaming audience.

The next few years would see several sequels and other toy-video game hybrids, such as Disney Infinity , which features Disney characters. Despite featuring a touch screen remote control that allowed off-TV gaming and being able to play Wii games, the Wii U was a commercial failure—the opposite of its competition—and was discontinued in In , Sony released a more powerful version of its console, called the Playstation 4 Pro, the first console capable of 4K video output.

In early , Nintendo released its Wii U successor, the Nintendo Switch, the only system to allow both television-based and handheld gaming.

Microsoft will release its 4K-ready console, the Xbox One X, in late With their new revamped consoles, both Sony and Microsoft currently have their sights set on virtual reality gaming, a technology that has the potential to change the way players experience video games.

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