B In no more than 500 words‚ after reading the following text‚ how can it tell us about cross-cultural encounters? --- This piece of text can offer a great deal of information on cross-cultural encounters between the Western world and the Benin people. It is an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the entry on ’Negro’‚ published in 1910-1911. The author was T.A. Joyce‚ an Assistant in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum‚ at the time of publication. It was written aimed
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also promoted religious freedom. (Document 4) Hausa sculptures were thought of as wonderful because of all the different materials used to make them. A Hausa artisan used clay‚ wax‚ copper‚ zinc‚ and led to make a bronze sculpture. The bronzes of Benin were created using a lost-wax technique. In this technique an object was sculpted in wax‚ then covered in clay and baked. The wax was then filled with molten metal. Artists often portrayed warriors or
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planetary home‚ especially if not kept healthy and maintainable. The dried cod became a vital economic product and main of the Portuguese intake. The Portuguese found Muslim merchants entrenched along the African coast. The Slave Coast‚ as the Bight of Benin‚ was searched by the Portuguese since the 1470s. It was not until they reached the kingdom of kongo’s coast in the 1480s that they overdid the Muslim trading territory. Also during the 16th century‚ the Portuguese also started to settle their newly
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Publishing‚ Rome-Italy Vol. 3 No. 3 September 2013 89 Factors Affecting the Study of Accounting in Nigerian Universities Odia‚ J.O. (PhD) Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria odiajames@yahoo.com‚ 234-8056580011 Ogiedu‚ K.O. (PhD) Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria koogiedu@yahoo.com‚ 234-8033600045 Doi:10.5901/jesr.2013.v4n3p89 Abstract This paper examines the factors affecting students ’ career choice of accounting in Nigerian
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unified by its focus on the civil war and the physical‚ social and psychological consequences of that war. Achebe wrote a collection of poems in which the first poem was named “1966”. It refers to the months preceding the outbreak of the civil war. “Benin Road” is another poem which takes up a related theme of the unexpected but inevitable convergence of fragile beauty or idealism and power. In this poem the driver is identified with his car whose speed‚ power and weight all equate with violence and
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Savanna The African Savanna biome is a tropical grassland in Africa between latitude 15° North and 30 degrees S and longitude 15 degrees W and 40° West. It covers Guinea‚ Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ Cote D’ivore‚ Ghana‚ Togo‚ Benin‚ Nigeria‚ Cameroon‚ Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Somalia‚ and the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Angola‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Kenya‚ Tanzania‚ Malawi‚ Zambia‚ Zimbabwe‚ Mozambique‚ Botswana‚ and South Africa. Around 2 million large plant-eating
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Question 1 .4 out of 4 points Correct In which river’s valley did the Chinese people first settle around 7000 BCE? Answer Selected Answer: Yellow River Correct Answer: Yellow River . Question 2 .4 out of 4 points Correct Why around 1500 BCE did the longest-lasting class system begin in India? Answer Selected Answer: Invading Aryans conquered and enslaved the inhabitants Correct Answer: Invading Aryans conquered and enslaved the inhabitants . Question 3 .0 out of 4 points
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1.0.INTRODUCTION. DIRECTORATE FOR FOODS‚ROADS AND RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE(DFRRI) Many programmes of the Nigerian government had varied impact on poverty alleviation. The DFRRI was established in 1986 by Gen. Babangida to enhance rural development. This was meant to provide feeder roads‚ electricity‚ and potable water and toilet facilities for the rural dwellers. the establishment of the Directorate of Food‚ roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI)was not only a radical
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Should the state of Washington allow Icicle Seafoods to establish a net-pen salmon aquaculture operation in the Straits of Juan de Fuca‚ just off the coast near Port Angeles? Decision makers should be mindful and have all the information when deciding on whether to allow the Icicle seafoods to establish a net pen salmon aquaculture operations. I am going to give you some background information regarding the Salmon population in Puget sound/ Strait of Juan de Fuca and net pens‚ to help you make
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across geographic boundaries into other developing countries and across product boundaries to other adjacent products. Between 1993 and 1995‚ the business grew from a single-country operation into multiple origins‚ first within West Africa (including Benin‚ Togo‚ Ghana‚ Côte
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