language of that region or area‚ started being used more in the 12th century by writers. It became an important part of poetry and was used by the Troubadours and Trobairitz of that time so that it was available to a larger group of people that wanted the access to the romantic literature. Noble women played a big part in the vernacular being used more because they preferred their plays and poems written in it. By the 13th century‚ vernacular language was being used in important government and legal
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LITERATURE “Literature is the mirror of the society” The adage above is one of the most commonly used definitions of Literature… cliché as it may sound‚ still‚ it is true. Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written
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excessive amount of money but they make a decent amount of money to live off of. If only this man was noble‚ I could then marry and respect him for the rest of my life. (France in the 16th and 17th Centuries) He could be the leader of our family that we would raise together. (France in the 16th and 17th Centuries) BAM! An amazing and ingenious idea just hit me. We could fool the whole town by disguising him as a “noble” foreigner and put him in nice clothes. This plan is fool proof and no one would ever
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Cited: Douglass‚ Frederick. “What is to the slave is the 4th of July?” The Presence of Others. Andrea A. …….Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz. Boston: St. Martin’s 5th Edition‚ 2008. 497-508. Print.
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between the 10th century and the 13th century AD. Meanwhile between the 9th century and the 13th century much of what is now Thailand was ruled by the Khmers‚ a people from what is now Cambodia. However in the 13th century several small states in Thailand in the Mekong River valley united to form a kingdom called Sukhothai. It is regarded as the first Thai kingdom. However the first Thai kingdom did not last long. It declined in the late 14th century. Meanwhile during the 14th century another kingdom
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bad things like terrorism or cyber bullying. These actions cause people like schools and the government to track or monitor people’s social media accounts. Some people say looking through social media pages to detain or punish people violates the 4th amendment which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. And others say getting people in trouble for what they post on social media violates their 1st amendment rites of freedom of speech. There was a court case called Morse v. Frederick about
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January 16‚ 2013 Chapter 18‚ 21‚ 22 Vocabulary Catherine the Great Who: Russian What: ruler of Russia When: 18th Century Where: Russia Why significance: added new lands to Russia‚ encouraged science‚ art‚ literature‚ Russia became one of Europe’s most powerful nations. Third Rome Who: Russians What: Russian claim to be successor state to Roman and Byzantine empires When: 15th century Where: Russia Why significance: Moscow became the Religious center for the Eastern and Russian Orthodox Churches
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India. By the third century B.C. mathematics‚ astronomy and medicine began to develop separately. In the field of mathematics ancient Indians made three distinct contributions‚ the notation system‚ the decimal system and the use of zero. The earliest epigraphic evidence of the use of decimal system belongs to the fifth century A.D. Before these numerals appeared in the West they had been used in India for centuries. They are found in the inscriptions of Ashoka in the third century B.C. Indians were
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recorded zero is attributed to the Babylonians in the 3rd century BC. A long period followed when no one else used a zero place holder. But then the Mayans‚ halfway around the world in Central America‚ independently invented zero in the fourth century CE. The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars‚ but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century. It spread to Cambodia around the end of the 7th century. From India it moved into China and then to the Islamic
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Adib Majul; 56-84. ISLAMIZATION OF SULU Tuan Masha’ika Tuhan Maqbalu Karim ul-Makhdu Rajah Baguinda Sharif ul-Hashim Mohadum‚ Alawi Balpaki A. Tuan Masha’ika //Badjaos moving from the Johore area‚ to Sulu (14th century) B. Tuhan Maqbalu - Mentioned in a tombstone found in Bud Dato‚ the hill of rulers (710 A.H.‚ 1310 C.E.) - Muslim who died far away from his land of origin; a local ruler of some prominence C. Karim ul-Makhdum - Full name: Ibrahim al-Akbar
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