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What forces contributed to the cultural makeup of early civilizations?
What social issues arose because of this cultural makeup?
What were the main cultural influences on early civilizations?
Do you believe that revisionist history is a good thing or a bad thing? Explain your response.

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What forces contributed to the cultural makeup of early civilizations?

According to Arnold Toynbee, early civilizations were the result of what he deems as 'primitive societies' (primitive social groups with a sense of shared concerns and traditions) not particularly due to the drive of racial or environmental forces but because they needed to congeal together to respond to and overcome challenges. For this reason, early civilizations are self-determining. Toynbee believes that the challenge must be just right - not too much that it crushes the new civilization, not so small that it will lead to disinterest and stagnation. It is in working together to overcome these challenge that a wider cultural identity is created, one shared by the members of said civilization (i.e. the early Olmec Civilization was formed to overcome the challenge of warring tribes and the need for territory and order). As such early civilizations' cultural identities were impacted by the following: means of subsistence, types of livelihood, settlement patterns, ...

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