Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later‚ Alexander of Macedon crossed the Indus River and destroyed the states he found. Although his campaign had an effect on politics and history in India‚ he created a gap in N.W. India when he crushed the existing states and then withdrew. Came to fill the gap was Magadha who had an opportunity to expand when Alexander withdrew. This laid the foundation for the Maurya Empire when Chandragupta
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1.Specify the exact duration and severity of the 2008 recession *The great second recession‚ and the aftermath of the events will never be ignored. The antecedent events of 2008 were highly questionable‚ as to why they transpired. As of present day‚ the United States is still amongst a financial slump. Again‚ the rippling effects in the recession of 2008 are still felt both near and far. We as American‚ never believed that such a financial atrocity would ever occur yet again after the financial
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but his actions sparked the unification of Japan‚ for the first time in history‚ a step that would be crucial in the country’s rise to world power 3 centuries later. Political unification encouraged economic growth‚ partly because it put an end to much of the fighting that had consumed Japan during the preceding years. At the same time that Japanese leaders were attempting to unify Japan under central government‚ European ships were beginning to make their to the islands. 3. How did the Tokugawa
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Traditions and Encounters‚ AP Edition (Bentley)‚ 5th Edition Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania Chapter Outline I. Colliding worlds A. The Spanish Caribbean 1. Indigenous peoples were the Taino a. Lived in small villages under authority of chiefs b. Showed little resistance to European visitors 2. Columbus built the fort of Santo Domingo‚ capital of the Spanish Caribbean a. Taino conscripted to mine gold b. Encomiendas: land grants to Spanish settlers with total control over local people
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easily to me. I have never been a student that needs to study two hours for a quiz the next day. I would have to look at a review sheet for several minutes and the next day pass the quiz with 100 percent. Reality finally hit me when I stepped into AP World History. I have never been very knowledgeable in any subject regarding social studies. When I signed up for this class I was worried I would struggle but decided to take on the challenge. The first few weeks of the class went by and I was doing perfectly
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Gilchrist: AP World History Summer Reading: Comparative Essay of two places of Worship: Do different types of church have different features from other and how similar are they? Yes different churches have different features which make them unique to their name which can be their different practices‚ their setting or place of worship and the person they worship. Over the summer‚ I visited two different places of worship which were a Baptist church and a Catholic church. Both have very different
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SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS PAGES 351-361 MORAL REFORM‚ ASYLUMS & PRISONS Social evil --- alcohol; prostitution ( common in port cities) Evangelical reformers approach o Rescue prostitutes o Offered salvation of religion‚ prayer & temporary shelter Poor rate of success Offered women domestic work which was low paying/restrictive Campaigns against prostitution organized by women o Continued throughout the 19th century Earliest‚ most effective anti-prostitution movement o Female
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2. part of enduring legacy of the classical world B. In the period around 500 b.c.e.‚ there was a great emergence of durable cultural traditions that have shaped the world ever since. 1. China: Kong Fuzi (Confucius) and Laozi 2. India: Upanishads defined Hinduism a. Siddhartha Gautama founded Buddhism 3. Middle East: development of monotheism a. Persia: Zoroastrianism (prophet Zarathustra) b. Israel: Judaism (prophets such as Isaiah) 4. Greece:
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AP World History Essay Jaycee Malone 7th Period In North America‚ dark skinned or other races other than white were treated poorly because their skin was a different color. In North America‚ all of the slaves had to lose everything to lose all of their identity from Africa. They were treated worse than the slaves from Latin America. The society in North America was much different than Latin America because the slaves were forced to work harder in North America. But in the Caribbean the slaves
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for or against the notion that they are indeed "self-evident." a. 8. Find and write the meaning to the phrase "absolute despotism." Jefferson says it is the "right and duty" of mankind to fight this "absolute despotism." Why? a. Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual‚ as in an autocracy‚ or it may be a group‚ as in an oligarchy. The word despotism means to "rule in the fashion of a despot" and does not necessarily
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