Advantages of the alphabet • Easy to learn‚ as it requires relatively few characters. • Easy to incorporate new words into existing language. • Adaptable for use of new languages. Disadvantages of the alphabet • Easy to learn‚ which makes the ability to write less powerful. • Need to understand spoken language to read. • As spoken language changes‚ it becomes divorced from spoken language The Phoenicians lived in city-states in the area of modern Lebanon‚ in the same way as the Sumerians
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2003) O ’Brien P.K: Oxford Atlas of World History (Oxford University Press‚ 2002) Rude G.F.E: Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge (Harvard University Press‚ 1972) Schmal H: Patterns of European Urbanisation since 1500 (Routledge‚ 1981) S W. Robin: World Civilization: A Brief History (Rowman & Littlefield‚1993) --------------------------------- [ 1 ]. George F.E Rude: Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge (Harvard University
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20. A train traveling at 25 kmph crosses another train having half its length and traveling in the opposite direction at 47 kmph‚ in 18 seconds. It also passes a railway platform in 4 ½ minutes. The length of the platform is (a) 1500 m (b) 1575 m (c) 1635 m (d) 1700 m 21. 2 men A and B‚ start travelling from two points P and Q respectively in opposite direction up to a point where the other started. Let the distance between the two points be 10 km. If they take 13 minutes and 52 minutes respectively
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RELATIONAL ALGEBRA Query Language It is a Language in which a user request information from the database. These languages are typically of a level higher than that of the standard programming language. It is divided into either procedural or non-procedural language. In the procedural Language‚ the user instructs the system to perform the sequence of operation on the database to compute a desired result. In a non-procedural Language‚ the user describes the information desired without
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Marketing Plan for Mongoose Style Kashmir Willow Cricket Bat Situation Analysis There is no doubt that Cricket is the most popular sport in India. The cricket bat manufacturing industry in India has been thriving since the time the British first saw the abundance of Willow trees in the Kashmir valley‚ and introduced the art of bat making in India. The cricket bat industry in India is a 66 crore industry. Bats made of Kashmir willow are second only to the ones made of English willow. These Indian
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All Men Are Born Free Since the beginning of slavery in the 1500’s to the emancipation of the slaves in the 1860’s‚ violent and nonviolent tactics were used to fight against the tight clutches of their masters. According to Nonviolent Social Movements‚ violent tactics and strategies rely on polarization and dualistic thinking that require people‚ like the slaves and the masters‚ to divide into the good versus bad. They have to assume neat‚ rigid little categories that are easily answered from
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ENG 5933: History of the Book (Fall 2007) c. 2400 BC c. 650 c. 400-300 295 c. 100 1st Cent. AD c. 370 610 c. 700 c. 750-800 868 875 896 c. 1041-48 11th Cent. 1255 1276 1337 1373 c. 1400 1403 1418 1430 1454 1456 1457 c. 1460 1465 1466 1467 1470 1472 1476 1477 c. 1485 Earliest surviving papyrus scrolls. Papyrus scroll introduced into Greece from Egypt. Silk writing materials employed in China. Alexandria Library founded. Vegetable-fiber paper developed in China. MS. book format shifts from scroll
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Describe FOUR ways in which the political organization of the Arawaks was different to the political organization of the Caribs. (12 marks) Total: 25 Marks 2. Imagine that you are a Taino cacique on whose island the Spaniards settled in the early 1500s. You are having a discussion with the Spanish settlers about the meeting of your culture with theirs. a. Explain the aspects of the Spanish presence in your island that pose a problem to your people. (15 marks) b. Describe the features of your culture
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Remember: Production factors Labour (and Land) • That’s us – everyone who produces • Until c. 11‚000 BC – that is for 99% of human history – humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers‚ that means collected or killed the resources of a large plot of land (c. 8-200 km² per head‚ depending on climate) • In the neolithic revolution man started to become a food producer (agriculture and livestock breeding); until at least the 17th Century (in most cases much longer) the vast majority of humans worked
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THE IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHY American students are often criticized for their lack of knowledge of geography‚ but it is essential in the study of world history. Although you will not have to specifically identify places on the AP Exam‚ you cannot follow change over time nor make accurate comparisons unless you know something about both physical and political geography. Our concepts of geography have been shaped by western historians of the past‚ and in recent years some scholars have questioned
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