7 Define: * Plateau: a relatively high‚ flat land areas * Desert * Savanna: broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs Define: * Animism: * Griot: a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history * Subsistence Farming: the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use‚ not for sale * Matrilineal: tracing lineage through the mother rather than the father * Patrilineal: tracing lineage through the father Know the basics
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AP World History Extra Credit Book List I encourage you to expand your knowledge and interests by reading books for extra credit. It is possible to receive up to 40 extra credit points per quarter (excluding the 4th quarter)‚ but you will have to earn them. Each book review is worth 20 points unless otherwise noted. Any book assigned for another class (ex. English) will no longer be eligible for extra credit for that year. Book and Film Review Format Write a minimum of a four-paragraph review
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have with people at my table and in my clubs in person still feel the same as before. A major change that happened during the last five years to me is the divergence of gaming‚ television‚ literature‚ and anime subcultures. Looking back into the history of what qualified as ‘anime’ from 2005 to 2014‚ the time when I have been most into the genre of television‚ will show that in 2005‚ there were a core amount of ‘must-watch’ shows such as Black Butler‚ Hetalia‚ etc. that I watched and everyone knew
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Throughout history‚ places around the world have traditionally participated in a cycle of ritualized events and festivals. Historically‚ European life consisted of festivals like Carnival and Mardi Gras‚ along with common‚ daily rituals like charivari‚ or riding the stang. Some festivals kept people happy and allowed them to unwind while others provided order and punishment. Different religious beliefs resulted in different opinions on certain festivals and rituals. Additionally‚ rituals and festivals
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arguing that domination of the seas through naval power was the key to world domination Alfred Thayer Mahan promoted American overseas expansion by the need to find new African and Asian soures of raw materials for American industry Which of the following was not among the factors propelling America toward overseas expansion in the 1980s? The desire to expand overseas agricultural and manufacturing exports The "yellow press" of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst The need to find
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During the nineteenth century‚ Manchester became one of the most industrialized cities in the world. Although the industrialization of Manchester was very efficient and successful for the modernization of man‚ the city’s growth also raised many issues in society. The growth of the city had negative and positive effects. Although the huge population growth in Manchester in the 1800s‚ delighted many people‚ for they though this had led to advances in manufacturing and other industries-the increase
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American War played on America’s development of an Empire? And finally‚ what three ways in which the boom and bust of the Roaring Twenties followed by the Great Depression affected the federal government’s involvement in the national economy. First‚ World War I began June 28‚ 1914 with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary. It was on July 28‚1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Germany declared war on Russia. France‚ found herself at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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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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individuals as witches were if you were a female‚ if you were middle age and not married(widowed)‚ or if you were not practicing Christianity. The most common persecution of a witch was if their were a female. As stated in document 8: "As for the question‚ why a greater number of witches if found in the fragile feminine sex than among men.. the first is‚ that they are more credulous… the second reason is that women are naturally more impressionable‚ and more ’ ready to receive the influence of a disembodied
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Jamachi Eluchie Comprehensive Analysis and Response for A History of the World in 6 Glasses 1. Beer influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural based societies because it gave people a keen interest in grain storage. Beer was discovered as gruel‚ a mixture of water and grain‚ that was heated. It stimulated a dopaminergic release‚ causing the people that experienced the flavor to yearn for that rewarding sensation more. Standage noted that people could store a pound of
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