Week 3 Blog 1

Grace Leung

2/7/11

Western Civilization

1.     What is the oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to you? Why/how does it matter?

The oldest human- created artifact that has mattered to me is the Declaration of Independence, because it is a big part of our history as Americans. The Declaration of hand written and crafted by several of the United States leading delegates. This simple piece of paper or document formed our country to what it is today. This little piece of paper signed by fifty-seven people caused an enormous change in our rights today. It gave us freedom of speech and so many other independences. The Declaration of Independence took about a year to write and publish, which was in 1776. This Declaration was the foundation of the American Government system today. The different branches of government are formed from this. The United States government is known as one of the most successful in the world. Because of the fairness of the foundations of our constitutions we therefore have the benefit of true freedom. The Declaration is not the oldest artifact of this world, but it is a treasured one. Without this we could possibly live in a Communist world and the turn of the Revolutionary War could have been changed.