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    DBQ The Mesoamerican society during the Ancient through the Post-Classical Periods was primarily developed by three technological and intellectual accomplishments starting with their well prepared war strategies. The development of agriculture was an outstanding innovation. And finally they made great strides in the field of science. A note before beginning‚ it must be acknowledged that all of the documents provided only gave the view of somebody that watched the common workers do their jobs or was

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    their ancient ancestors who built an ancient civilizations that stretched throughout much of Central America. The Ancient Mayans are renowned among historians and archaeologists as being an incredibly advanced culture that excelled at mathematics‚ astronomy and arts. With their star-based calendar predicting the end of the world in 2012. Much of Mayan history is under mystery and yet is still to be discovered in the future like the Lost Mayan City of Mirador that is located in the middle of the jungle

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    When Americans think of the term “space exploration” they typically associate it with “the race for space” and recall a time when the nation was consumed by the thought of rockets and beating the Soviet Union to the final frontier. While the period of time‚ coined as “The Space Race‚” has since passed‚ space exploration continues to impact people around the world. Many Americans fail to understand that the benefits of space exploration extend far beyond the people involved with counting down the

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    Amerigo Vespucci

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    Antastagio Vespucci sent him to the Monastery of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio. In his new school‚ Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin‚ math‚ grammar‚ history‚ Italian and Greek Literature‚ geography and astronomy. Amerigo learned to love astronomy‚ because he was fascinated about all of the shapes the stars made‚ that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought about traveling about the Earth‚ but he thought it to be impossible‚ because he was tought in school that the

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    the land textures and topography. He took special interest in Greenland‚ and always walked‚ skated‚ and hiked. This prepared him of what was to come in his future. He studied in Germany and Austria‚ receiving his PhD in astronomy. But no sooner than he got his PhD he dropped astronomy (in desire for a more interesting department) to study meteorology‚ the study of weather. Wegener started of flying kites and balloons. He made experiments with his brother Kurt flying these certain things. Then in

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    Neutrino

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    Neutrino What is neutrino ? A neutrino is an electrically neutral‚ weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a half-integer spin‚ chirality and a disputed but small non-zero mass. It is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected. The neutrino (meaning "small neutral one") is denoted by the Greek letter ν (nu). Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar electron‚ with one crucial difference: neutrinos do not carry electric charge‚ which means that they are not affected by

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    INTRODUCTION: The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Radiation can be said to be energy that travels and spread as it goes. The "electromagnetic spectrum" of an object has a different meaning‚ and is instead the characteristic distribution of electromagnetic radiation emitted or absorbed by that particular object. We tend to witness different radiations of the electromagnetic spectrum without knowing‚ example is the visible light that

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    Plato’s Universe (Chapters 1 & 2) By: Gregory Vlastos SUMMARY Vlastos begins by talking about the word cosmos and its origins. The Greek word kosmeo meaning to set in order became kosmos which had a moral connotation until the Presocratics such as Thales‚ Anaximander and Anaximenes and other physiologoi gave the word a physical application that was composed of the Earth‚ sun‚ moon‚ stars and everything in between. Heraclitus was the first person on record to use the word cosmos with its newest

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    ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY OF HELL IN THE UNIVERSE DR. FAZLUL ISLAM 1 INTRODUCTION 2009 was declared by the UN to be the international year of astronomy 2009. The focus was on enhancing the public’s engagement with and understanding of astronomy. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) launched the year under the theme ‘The Universe‚ Yours to Discover’. By scientific exploration of the universe‚ the astronomers have discovered many celestial bodies in the outer space‚ which were hidden

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    their contribution to the world. ARYABHATT (476 CE) MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN [pic] Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur (Bihar)‚ Aryabhatt’s intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE‚ at the age of 23‚ he wrote a text on astronomy and an unparallel treatise on mathematics called "Aryabhatiyam. " He formulated the process of calculating the motion of planets and the time of eclipses. Aryabhatt was the first to proclaim that the earth is round‚

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