Which do you think is a better roadmap of history artifacts of the humanities (art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, architecture, etc)

I think that in history many things all contribute to being able to make a "road map" of the world over time. Between things like art and culture and polictical or military battles, I think that the aspects of art, literature,architecture, etc are the best way to look at history. Military battles is only one of the aspects of history but by looking throughout history, we constantly see all of them changing rapidly and they define the culture of the time and what people were doing. For example, in ancient times, with the first signs of art, we can infer that people were beginning to settle down and stay in one area instead of being hunter gatherers that they had been for the last hundreds or thousands of years. As the world grew and expanded in technologies, the art, architecture, literature, culture, etc. evolved with it. From these examples from history, I think that these parts are more important to the road map of history rather than political/military conflicts.


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