To everyone in the world different things are important to them. What is important to someone else can be entirely different than someone else who lives in the house next to him. There are many different aspects to why people think that things are important. This can be because of value, size, quantity, or something else. Throughout history the idea of what is important has changed thousands of times for many different things. There are several things that encompass what most people think is important and have played a role throughout history. These include the arts, civilization, desire, power, and wealth. If you think about the majority of people would say that what they feel is important would fall under these categories and they survived the trails of history and are still important to us today.
The arts have played a very important role in the history of the world. Art defines the culture and feeling of places around the world. For example, in ancient Egypt, all of their art had an emphasis on death. This shows that their society had a very strong belief in life after death and the importance of a proper burial with the construction of pyramids (BBC History/Egypt). Another form of art that is important is music. Music is important because it can express the way a civilization
feels and can show how the civilization has evolved through the usage of new techniques. Architecture is another art that is important to history. Not only does it show the advances in the human intellect with the usage of math and physics n the constructions of building but it also can describe other things about the culture. For example, the construction of civilizations shows that people are starting to grow together as a people and evolving. The more advanced the structure, the more advanced the civilization. People today regard the arts as a very important part of their lives just as much as ancient civilizations respected arts as an important part of the evolution of the ancient world to the modern world. Something else that is important is civilization. Without civilizations forming, where would the world be today? Civilizations are the basic foundation to all life. If man were isolated to being exiled by themselves, we would not exist today. It is however a scientific fact that man is drawn to be around others. Civilizations forming were the start of what has now lead to large cities all over the world like Tokyo, Japan, New York City, New York, and others. Civilizations have provided the base for very important revolutions to occur like the rise of agriculture. When humans were able to begin to settle down in one place and plant crops, people could begin to put their attention on different things which opened a new world for humankind. With the fall of hunter gatherers, people began to discover new things like pottery, sculpture, religion, advances in technology, and the domestication of animals. Civilizations have supported countries for thousands of years until today.
Desire is extremely important. Desire is the driving force for people to get things done. Throughout history desire has led to great things. The desire for freedom led to America becoming its own nation, the desire for knowledge has led to thousands to medical and scientific knowledge. Desire can unite groups of people or can turn them against each other. Desire is a way to have people bring change to the world and create something new and valuable to improve the lives of many.
Power is vital to anything we do. Whether it’s mental power, physical, or just power over another, power had provided endless opportunities throughout history and still does today. Power dictates the successfulness of anything. That can be power in government, power in military force, power of a leader. Using ancient as an example, their leader, or Pharaoh, had ultimate power over everything and was thought of as a God. Today, Power is a defining factor. Our President, Barack Obama, is thought of as the most powerful man in the world. Power is important to lots of people because they find happiness in power. Abraham Lincoln said this about power, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test his character, give him power” (Quotationspage.com) When it comes down to it, power can be a good thing or bad thing; it all depends on who the power is in the hands of. Power can build nations up or tear them down with a single move. Regardless of the positive or negative effects of power and the repercussions of it, most people can agree that power is very important.
The fifth and final category that most people and qualify what is important under is wealth. Wealth describes how much of one thing something has. That can be money, love, or something else. Wealth is one the key defining characters of what is important to people. The idea of wealth being important to many wealth in riches is the key to whether or not something is important. The wealth of a country often is the key people of how important it is. The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world which leads everyone to believe that it is an important nation. In this aspect, wealth is an effective way to tell whether or not something is important and if there is a wealth of something has made any impact in some way; odds are it is important in one way or another.
How important something is is an opinion held by people all over the world of different races and culture. If people look at what they think is important and trace it back to what the basic idea of what they think is important is, most people would be able to say that they it would fall under the categories of the arts, civilizations, desire, power, or wealth. What is important is an individual’s own view of what makes a difference to them and has affected the world and can be shared by millions or completely individual.
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