the most dramatic changes due to expanding trade is the improvement of women status due to the spread of Islam and the further diffusion of technologies and ideas from there nodal points. However‚ China has always been the main producer of silk in Eurasia from 500-1500. Due to the spread of Islam through expanding trade networks from 500-1500 treatment of women’s property and female infanticide have changed for the better. Before Islam in Arabia‚ women were seen as property themselves to their man
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Guns‚ Germs and Steel is a documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the 13‚000 years journey of man kind’s evolution and societal development. Diamond’s book has been praised by many however‚ it also created controversy among scientists around the world. According to many scientist believe his theory of the geography and the environment being the main caused of shaping of the world as we know it today should be criticized. Diamond takes upon the
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According to a paper published in Science‚ models of how animal and plant distributions are affected by climate change may also explain aspects of human evolution. The approach takes existing knowledge of the geographical spread of other species through the warming and cooling of the ice ages to provide a model that can be applied to human origins. "No one has applied this knowledge to humans before‚" said Dr John Stewart‚ lead author on the paper and researcher at Bournemouth University. "We
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The economic effects of design. Copenhagen: National Agency for Enterprise and Housing. Lambert‚ R. (2006). . Measuring and modeling design in innovation. Power‚ D. (2004). The Future in Design: The Competitiveness and Industrial Dynamics of the Nordic Design Industry Swann‚ P. and Birke‚ D. (2005). How do Creativity and Design Enhance? Business Performance? A Framework for Interpreting the Evidence Tether‚ B. (2006). Design in Innovation: Coming out from the Shadows of R&D? Presented at DTI
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Eurasia has accounted for the great majority of the human population for at least the last 3‚000 years‚ and pure chance would make it extremely likely that at any particular time the world ’s most powerful and advanced civilization would be somewhere in Eurasia."-"The spread of useful crops and animals was determined at least as much by human activities‚ notably trade and migration
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Major Themes of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel As Jared Diamond examines the major factors of a great civilization after being posed by Yali’s question‚ he comes to an astounding realization. It is that Asians and Europeans came to be powerful not because they were smarter or better than other civilizations‚ but because they were luckier in terms of geography. Diamond focuses on the idea that the success of a society is not catalyzed by genetics or natural superiority‚ but instead by these two major
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The ancient Nordic religion was commonly followed and practiced by people in northern regions of the world‚ such as Scandinavia‚ Norway‚ Iceland and surrounding countries. The beliefs of this religion are extremely unique and follow individualistic stories of creation‚ morals and more founded by the originals of the Nordic religion. The story of creation‚ involving the land‚ people and some of their gods follows the belief of two lands with different extreme temperatures came together‚ Niflheim and
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Culture and Leader Effectiveness: The GLOBE Study Background: The "Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness" (GLOBE) Research Program was conceived in 1991 by Robert J. House of the Wharton School of Business‚ University of Pennsylvania. In 2004‚ its first comprehensive volume on "Culture‚ Leadership‚ and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies" was published‚ based on results from about 17‚300 middle managers from 951 organizations in the food processing‚ financial
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Preface * Basis: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? * Predominant focus on histories of literate Eurasia (western Eurasia) and North African societies 3 disadvantages 1. More people today are interested in understanding societies besides that of Western Europe a. Other societies encompass most of the world’s population and vast majority of the world’s ethnic‚ cultural and linguistic groups b. Other societies are already or
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TELENOR it is a multinational corporation of Norway. Norwegian telecommunication was Established in 1884. with the passage of time it introduces three more telecommunication corporations. In 1995 it changed its name to telenor. It has its telecommunication network in about 12 countries. Has a very leading and strong position in its markets‚ which are multidimensional and international. Its strengths are its methods of innovation‚ its good will social responsibilities‚ and
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