Intro: Japs attacked Pearl Harbor‚ dec.7 1941‚ killing thousands of Americans. It was the worst defeat to be ever experienced by the United States Navy. It created the controversy on who to blame‚ whether the local commanders or the officials at fault. People wonder whether or not the local officials may have withheld vital information‚ or the local commanders did not do their part in protecting the naval base. There is enough evidence present to conclude that the local commanders at Pearl
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It was not until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when Europeans colonized Africa. By that time‚ the Africans already had progressive civilizations. This included having wealth and power through trade‚ a well-organized society‚ and a vigorous military force/government. Along all the land routes and sea routes‚ such as the trans-Saharan trade route‚ many products were traded. For example‚ products such as gold‚ salt‚ ivory‚ animal skins‚ etc. Aksum’s location by the Red Sea provided it with
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Nafeesa Rahman. Summer Assignment #2‚ Chapter 3 of AP U.S. History. 8/9/2014. Mr. Mcfeely. 1) Puritans did not want to separate from the Church of England. They wanted to "purify" it of practices they considered too Catholic. The Puritans believed that the holy Church did not abide by the biblical commands strong enough‚ and so they didn’t like that virtuous morals. Pilgrims‚ on the other hand‚ were also called Separatists because they wanted to break all ties with the Church of England. They
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AP WORLD HISTORY STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM ONE: “FOUNDATIONS: PREHISTORY – 600 C.E.” TERMS/IDEAS TO KNOW: 1. Pastorialism 2. Patrilineal 3. Matrilineal 4. Hominids 5. Cuneiform 6. Hammurabi’s Code of Law 7. Upper Egypt 8. Lower Egypt 9. Mandate of Heaven 10. Scholar-gentry 11. Legalism 12. city-state 13. Monotheism 14. Polytheism 15. Maize 16. Civil service examination system 17. Delian League 18. Peloponnesian League 19. Council
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AP History The Battle of Cowpens was a very significant battle taking place on January 17‚ 1781. This battle was a huge victory‚ unexpectedly won giving hope to colonists fighting for freedom. This battle took place in South Carolina on the border of North Carolina and although it seemed small the effect was huge. It has been said that 1000 American soldiers fought off 1100 British soldiers and American Loyalists. General Greene gave orders commanding his men to split up sending General Daniel
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Policy Sciences 35: 269^284‚ 2002. ß 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 269 Bounded rationality and public policy: Herbert A. Simon and the decisional foundation of collective choice1 BRYAN D. JONES Department of Political Science‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ U.S.A. Abstract. By 1958‚ a model of human behavior capable of serving as the micro-level foundation for organizational and policy studies was in place‚ due primarily to the e¡orts of Herbert Simon‚ organization
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AP World History Study Guide for Exam One: “Foundations: Prehistory- 600 C.E” Terms/Ideas To Know: 1.Pastorialism: Branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. 2.Patrilineal: System in which one belongs to one’s father’s lineage. 3. Matrilineal: A societal system in which one belongs to one’s matriline or mother’s lineage. 4. Hominids: Primate of the family Hominidae‚ which Homo sapiens is the
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AP World History Ch. 11 Notes * Han empire falls and its territories divided 220 C.E * Warfare among territories causes development of small pox * Ge Hong‚ a Daoist interested in discovering elixir of life * Daoists made significant discoveries in metallurgy‚ pharmacology‚ and math * Tang empire ended in 907 C.E Sui and Tang Empires * Fall of Han allowed many different politic styles. * Sui reunified China and reestablished Confucianism as central philosophy *
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 Payne 1 Max Payne AP English 11 Ms. Paul 13 November 2012 The Rise and Fall It is November 9‚ the Year of Our Lord 1799‚ and a battered French army begins the arduous climb up the Alps‚ just as a light snow begins to gently fall‚ a precursor of the hardship and bone chilling temperatures to come. They are led by the newly crowned consulate and France’s savior‚ Napoleon Bonaparte. There is a fear that Genoa may fall to Austrians. This fateful journey was captured in a painting by artist‚
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I. History of Economic Growth and Reform Since 1978 China has experienced very rapid GDP growth. Between 1978 and 2009 China has had an annual growth of over 8% for twenty five out of thirty two years‚ and from 1979 to 2006‚ China had an average real GDP growth of 9.7% annually. This rapid growth has increased the size of its economy by eleven times what it was. In that same time period China’s world ranking for total trade rose from 27th to 3rd place. The real GDP per capita in China had also
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