Some people think that human history has been a journey from ignorance to knowledge. Others argue that this underestimates the achievements of ancient cultures, and overvalues our achievements. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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Some people think that human history has been a journey from ignorance to knowledge. Others argue that this underestimates the achievements of ancient cultures, and overvalues our achievements. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Journey of human evolution

Human history has always been quite an interesting to learn. The transition from ape to the human being is undoubtedly excursion from ignorance to enlightenment. This progress has been innovating more and more over the years. In older times, humans have invented several things such as fire, artefacts, sign language, etc. They have achieved many greater heights in the ancient era. Even built Seven Wonders of World without technological support. This analogy applies to all fields right from farming to medical discoveries.

There is historical belief that the achievements of man have been based on the journey of knowledge. However, the statistics say that ancient mankind did make notable contributions towards the modern civilizations and motivated them to evolve further. Even today despite acquiring boundless limits, scientists from every industry still trying to figure out secrets of the Primeval period. From this point of view, it looks like as if we have been just enhancing their achievements.

Based on these two brief discussions, my opinion is that it is hard to say which one might be true, as there are two angles to both theories. Although there is no huge difference in the way brains worked in previous generations and now. In simple words earlier generation was genius and today's is intellectual as well as smarter. In the end, the value of ancient human being's contributions to the modern mankind's intellect evolution is enormous.

In my view, however, there is no comparison between what we can achieve today and what people even two hundred years ago could achieve as we now know so much more. The vast majority of people in developed countries are able to benefit from an education system, standard of living, healthcare and life expectancy that are so much more advanced than ever before. It is my opinion that although we must remember and respect ancient cultures, modern-day achievements have brought us to the peak of human civilisation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, so, still, well, such as, as well as, in my view

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1686.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 325.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18769230769 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79822428901 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618461538462 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2275286433 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.6666666667 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0555555556 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250390023741 0.244688304435 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692313468427 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0528771100454 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132272210909 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354234294567 0.056905535591 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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