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Originally Posted by dar512
But the stuff I'm finding the most fun is their social studies. The youngest just finished working through the Tigris/Euphrates "cradle of civilization" stuff. The more I read about early history, the more convinced I am that the whole of history from hunter/gather to yesterday's newspaper is one big long power struggle.
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I'm reading Joseph Campbell's
Transformations of Myth Through Time It covers history, religion and art in one illustrated, readable book. It might help you tie it all together.
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Originally Posted by dar512
It's comic in a way. Once we discovered/developed farming we had more time. And so we had time to develop the arts -- and tools of war.
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Science is a leisure activity. Romans, chinese, greeks, egyptians, etc all developed a leisure class who didn't have to work for their food and could devote time to broadening perspectives. You have to conquer to make time for thinking, so to speak.