The Conditions of Civilization

Review of chapter one, of volume one, of the Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. 2: The Conditions of Civilization. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Geological Condition 01:27 Ice Age 02:36 Interglacial Period 03:59 Last Glacial Maximum 05:19 Causes of Glaciation 06:20 Milankovitch Cycles 08:12 Obliquity 10:41 Ice Core Samples 14:56 Geographical Condition 15:33 Nineveh 17:41 Drought 19:32 "Natural" Harbours 22:27 Economic Condition 24:48 Cities 26:46 Racial Condition 27:21 How Many Continents Are There ? 28:56 Eugenics 32:38 Cultural Influence 34:09 Psychological Condition 35:27 Unifying Moral Code 38:40 Definition of Civilization 40:53 Cultral Creation Undermining Social Order 47:29 History Repeating Itself ? 48:52 Causes of the Decline of Civilization 51:47 From Hunting to Tillage Accreditation: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A - Prelude and Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla, Richard Wagner, Musopen. Zadok the Priest, St Matthew's Concert Choir; Damien Giromella, director, Creative Commons 3.0. Temperature changes over the last 800,000 years, Creative Commons 3.0. Thomas J. Crowley (Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 9, 1995, pp. 377-389 by Ittiz) Creative Commons 3.0. listfiles/Kanguole, Map of Sunda and Sahul (marked by 125m depth contour) and the Wallace Line, the Weber Line and the Lydekker Line. Andrija12345678 Српски (ћирилица): Свјетлопис споменика Милутина Миланковића у Биограду, Србија. Milankovitch statue. cmglee, NASA and Solar System, Axial tilt , Creative Commons 4.0 International. Helle Astrid Kjær, Ice Core samples, Creative Commons 4.0 International. Dargaud, Creative Commons 4.0 International. (Mu-tamajo) むーたんじょ, John Martin, 1829 International Creative Commons 4.0. MagentaGreen, Khoser river Creative Commons 3.0. Ioannis Fakis, Water Buffalo Creative Commons 4.0 International. David Rumsey maps. Gbauer8946 3.0 Creative Commons. Juan R. Lazaro, Statue of pharaoh Khafre (Khefren). MusOpen Zadok the Priest sheet music. Robert Stewart Burrett, Prehistoric rock art site in northeast Zimbabwe Creative Commons 4.0 International. Roblespepe, Land Bridge, Alaska, Creative Common 3.0. Tovarg, a cartoon image depicting ice-albedo feedback, Creative Commons 4.0 International. JJonahJackalope, Fossil of a Smilodon populator at the Tellus Science Museum near Cartersville, Georgia, Creative Commons 4.0. FunkMonk (Michael B. H.) Smilodon populator skull and syntype tooth, from the collection of Peter Wilhelm Lund. Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Creative Commons 3.0. State Historical Society of North Dakota, Mastodon skeleton on display at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Bismarck, ND, USA) Creative Commons 4.0. NASA image released September 13, 2010, North Pole Creadit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Dna-webmaster, Description of relations between Axial tilt (or Obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic. Earth is shown as viewed from the Sun; the orbit direction is counterclockwise (to the left). Creative Commons 3.0. Fredarch, Simplified plan of ancient Nineveh showing city wall and location of gateways. City plan follows Reade (1978) Studies in Assyrian Geography: Part I: Sennacherib and the Waters of Nineveh (p. 51). Creative Commons 3.0.