Forward in Fight

“The human history is a history of war.” I heard this term when I was a kid who just started to be interested in military. And I do believe in it.
Tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors have already started a war against the monsters. They fought for food, they fought for survival...... Then, they found the amazing use of stones and fire, which we offspring regard as an enormous progress of human evolution.
Thousands of years later, with the growth of the population, the savanna in the east Africa became more and more crowded. The war between different groups came out. We can still find the similar situation in Africa----different groups of chimpanzees can be very aggressive when they come across in the jungle. Sometimes such an encounter can even lead to death. Though it is brutal, the result is that the stronger groups are able to survive and breed. And slowly, the whole species become more adaptable in the tough environment.
When the advent of the civilization came, with the rise of tribes and nations, the war became organized and sweeping. As a result, almost every aspect of the achievement in our civilization involved, both in science and arts.
In science, warfare is a vital motivation of the development.
3400years ago, there was a strong empire in west Asia called Hittite. Their prosperity was based on their formidable army, whose trump card was the iron weapons. They were the first in the world found the way of smelting iron from ore. When the empire went to perdition, the skilled blacksmiths went to the open world with their secret. Then, the whole world started to learn to make iron stuffs.
When the dawn of the 20th century came upon us, Wright brother sent us a wonderful gift in the winter in Kitty Hawk: the Flyer. The dream of fly was realized by passion, but it was the need of war that raised the aerospace industry. With the support from army, the aircrafts are able to go on a way to being faster higher and stronger; with the threat of the cold war, space technology developed in an unbelievable speed. Maybe, without those efforts, we could only take a propeller engine plane nor could we watch NBA live for there was no satellite in the space!
Nowadays, many people own computers, some even highly depend on them. When we are enjoying the benefit computers bring us, probably no one can imagine a world without computers. But have you ever considered why scientists invented such a machine? Here is the answer: it was initially invented to study ballistics, in other words, for the sake of military use.
During World War Two, Hitler started the research in nuclear weapon secretly in order to destroy every obstacle on his way to conquer. Meanwhile, American also started their famous Manhattan Project. The result was not just simply two big bombs dropped in Japan. The whole technology in nuclear physics tremendously improved. And now, the nuclear power can be both released momentarily as a bomb and continuously as a nuclear power plant.
In arts, culture, and religion as well, war also plays an important role. In the war, different cultures have to face a strong impact from their foe. Such an impact can be much deeper than the influence in peaceful time. For instance, when Manchu army entered middle of China through the Shanhai Pass in 1644, they forced Han people to follow the Manchu convention. But things changed later, when Kangxi was the emperor, he had to change the policy, for Han’s cultural influence was so strong that he could hardly against it. For hundreds of years, Manchu changed little. But 300years after the foundation of Qing dynasty, now, we could hardly tell them apart from Han people. So, in some way, war can bring integration among races.
From these facts we can draw a conclusion that war has a great influence in our civilization, for it forces us to be stronger to survive in the tough world.