Athens “Golden Age of Athens” Achievements of: -Golden Age of Athens took place in 5th century BC (480-430 BCE) -Golden Age took place after Peloponnesian wars (Athens verse Sparta) and before the Persian wars -Achievements: Greeks excelled in philosophy history (Herodotus and Thucydides) Drama (Sophocles and Aeschylus) Sculpture (Balance between realism and idealism) Arts Architecture (Parthenon 447-432 BCE) Aristotle on government‚ ethics and epistemology: -Aristotle was a pupil of Plato
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Chapter 14 – The Expansive Realm of Islam I. Chapter Intro A. “In 632 CE the prophet Muhammad visited his native city of Mecca from his home in exile at Medina‚ and in doing so he set an example that devout Muslims have sought to emulate ever since” (B&Z 355). Each year hundreds of thousands of Muslims travel to Mecca by land‚ sea‚ and air to make the hajj (“the holy pilgrimage to Mecca”) and visit the holy sites of Islam. As years went by the pilgrims decrease‚ but in the 9th c. it had
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Switzerland is best described by conveying an understanding of its geography‚ political‚ economic‚ cultural and social environments. The geography of the country has had a significant impact on its way of life. Switzerland is bordered by Germany in the north‚ Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein in the east‚ Italy in the south and France in the west. This represents many significant European cultures converging on Switzerland the German speaking region‚ the French and the Italian. Two
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WSCrusades Code:79664775 | Time remaining: 2 days 5 hours 32 minutes Compensation: | $3.60 / Page | Total: | $14.40 | Number of pages: | 4 (Double Spaced) | Number of sources: | 3 | Deadline: December 13 22:25 Order type: | Essay | Category: | History | Academic level: | Undergraduate | Style: | MLA | | Preparing | Preferred language style: English (U.S.) First Crusade: My professor assign us to do an essay and he gave us two statements that we have to argue in
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1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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The Viking Etymology Other names History Viking Age Viking expansion Motives End of the Viking Age Culture Literature and language Runestones Burial sites Ships Everyday life Social structure Appearances Farming and cuisine Sports Games and entertainment Experimental archaeology Weapons and warfare Trade Goods Legacy Medieval perceptions of the Vikings Post-medieval perceptions In 20th-century politics In modern popular culture Common misconceptions
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VIKINGS EINHERJAR THE CHOSEN ONES Kenneth Dunn History 115 Professor Gordon "Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race. Behold‚ the church of St. Cuthbert‚ spattered with the blood of the priests of God‚ despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples." - Alcuin of York‚ in a letter to Ethelred‚ King of Northumbria in England.
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Comparison of Ireland‚ Germany and Malta Introduction This paper compares the Republic of Ireland‚ Germany and Malta under various headings including cost of living‚ education‚ food and recruitment. I chose Ireland‚ Germany and Malta for the following reasons. These three countries have spread across the European continent; Ireland north‚ Germany central and Malta south. In addition‚ Germany‚ a country with a population of approximate 82 million inhabitants is the most populous member state in
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Christian History in Cross-Cultural Perspective A great deal of Donald A. McGavran’s insight can be traced to the unique advantage he had of growing up in India as a third generation missionary. by Ralph D. Winter T here before McGavran’s eyes were not only the expectable ethnic and linguistic divisions of the sub-continent (in which every given geographical area has its own area culture)—what is called horizontal segmentation. He early encountered the vertical segmentation of the world’s
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