Chapter 26 Notes: Ottomans and Arabs Ottomans: Factors of Decline * Competition between elite * Weak rulers * Increasingly powerful Janissary corps * Increased competition from European merchants * Military challenges from the West * Ottomans vs. Russia (result: loss of Serbia‚ Greece‚ and most of Balkans) Survival * Played European rivals against each other * Selim III: reformed bureaucracy‚ new army and navy. Killed by janissaries in 1807 * Mahmud II: slaughtered
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A central organizing concept in biology is that life changes and develops through evolution‚ and that all life-forms known have a common origin. The theory of evolution postulates that all organisms on the Earth‚ both living and extinct‚ have descended from a common ancestor or an ancestral gene pool. This last universal common ancestor of all organisms is believed to have appeared about 3.5 billion years ago.[21] Biologists generally regard the universality and ubiquity of the genetic code as definitive
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mammal A warm-blooded animal with hair or fur; female mammals produce milk to feed their young. fish Vertebrates which live in water‚ usually have scales and breathe through gills. amphibian A vertebrate with moist skin and no scales that lives part of its life in water and part on land. bird Egg-laying vertebrates with feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. reptile A vertebrate that lays eggs and has lungs and scaly skin. invertebrate
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CHAPTER TWO: THE EARTH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THE CONTINENTS A Continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria‚ with up to seven regions commonly regarded as continents. These are: Asia‚ Africa‚ North America‚ South America‚ Antarctica‚ Europe‚ and Australia. In geology‚ continents are described by means of tectonic plates. Plate tectonics is the process and study of the movement‚ collision and division
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Unit Two Test (Chapters 7‚8‚9‚10‚12‚13) 1) What was the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid? A) B) C) D) E) 2) What accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasid Empire? A) The government ordered regions of the empire populated by Shi’as abandoned. B) The decline of the cities led to a fall in the demand for food supplies and consequent drops
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Thalidomide Aim To appreciate that poor science can be harmful to people. Read the passages on thalidomide from the Internet and answer the questions that follow. 1 Thalidomide is a drug which was sold during the 1950s[->0] and 1960s[->1] as a sleeping aid and given to pregnant women to combat morning sickness[->2] and other symptoms. It was made in West Germany[->3] in 1953[->4]. It was available in around 50 countries‚ although not in the United States[->5]‚ under at least 40 different names
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Chapter 21 A. The Toltec and the Mexica 1. Toltecs emerge in the ninth and tenth centuries after the collapse of Teotihuacan a. Established large state‚ powerful army mid-tenth to the mid-twelfth century b. Tula was the Toltec capital city and center of trade c. Maintained close relations with societies of the Gulf coast and the Maya 2. Toltec decline after twelfth century d. Civil strife at Tula‚ beginning in 1125
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Chapter 24 Key Terms 1. Positivism- a philosophy of human intellectual development that culminated in science. In The Positive Philosophy Comte argued that human thought had developed in three stages: Theological‚ metaphysical‚ and positive. 2. Natural selection- The principal of survival of the fittest. It was naturalistic and mechanistic‚ requiring no guiding mind behind the development in organic nature. Contradicted with Biblical story of creation. 3. Social Darwinism- The application
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multiple‚ differing ideas in short quips in order to foreshadow coming events during the third chapter. This is done first by pairing Lenina’s and Henry’s relationship with Mond’s ideas of both parents and homes. Then combining the thoughts of the assistant predestinator with several characters to create a disruptive thought process which matches that of the past which Mond simultaneously describes. In chapter three‚ World Controller Mustapha Mond visits the Hatchery and begins to tell the students about
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Chapter 7 Terms Al-Mahdi- 775-785 CE‚ 3rd Abbasid caliph tried but failed to reconcile Shi’a to Abbasid rule and failed to resolve succession problem Harun al-Rashid- Great Abbasid ruler Harem- Buyids- 10th century Dynasty that invaded and captured Baghdad. Ruled Abbasid Empire under title of sultan and kept Abbasids as figureheads Seljuk Turks- Central Asian nomadic invaders. Sunnis who ruled in name of Abbasid caliphs from 11th century CE Crusades- Military adventures launched by western Christians
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