In ancient Egypt, the Egyptians traded with the Mediterranean so that the Egyptians learned from their ideas and methods. Culture is all about eternity and the afterlife. Pharaohs were also believed to rule with the gods, which made the Egyptians the place where they would ensure the afterlife for the pharaoh with all the great things he had while he was alive. The Egyptians buried Pharaoh's belongings with him and even went to the extreme of killing servants and family members to be buried with him. Over time, the Egyptians realized that art that portrayed people and objects would be good enough. Tutankhamun's mask characterizes the king. It represents magnificence. Another reason for the headdress was an image that the soul could enter and occupy in the afterlife if anything ever happened to the body. I think we do things similar to this. If someone we loved were to die, instead of putting things in the coffin with them, we will put things on the main stone of their grave. On the head stone we put a quote or something and their image. We also put some flowers and other nice things for them. (Debra J. DeWitte, 2012)One of the most popular islands in the Pacific Islands is Easter Island. Civilization began in 1200 AD and their society did not last long. They were divided into classes, the light-skinned islanders wore huge discs in their earlobes, wore many tattoos and worshiped huge statues. According to Heyerdahl, Easter Island was colonized periodically over a period of years by at least two cultures. They were cultures like that of Polynesia and another of South America. There is also a third story about a Spanish ship. The ship San Lesmems disappeared near Tahiti. Legend has it that......middle of paper......autonomous feudal divisions, composed of a lord and his obedient vassals, spread throughout Europe. These old-fashioned lords were constantly in battle during the early Middle Ages, their peasant armies facing each other to conquer lands for their nobles. They have four main social classes. The four divisions are Big People, Big People, Capitalist Merchants and Small People. This division of society caused the Ciompi revolt of 1378, when the poor clashed with the great and the common people due to continuous conflicts. This meant that the Black Death caused the collapse of the banks, making the common people even poorer. The Black Death was a pandemic that killed 75 to 200 million people in just two years. It reduced the world population from 450 million to 350-375 million people. It took 150 years for the population to recover.