The GED Social Studies Test World History Paula Schaffner California Distance Learning Project www.cdlponline.org 1 GED Video Partner #18 Passing the GED Social Studies Test A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. Henry Miller Video 18 Focus: themes in world history You Will Learn From Video 18: That waterways determined where civilizations developed. That walls defined but trade routes connected many cultures. That first gunpowder
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The Neolithic Revolution fits into the theme interaction between Humans and the environment because humans started to affect the environments.Factors of the environment such as rainfall patterns‚ and climate shaped human interactions in different parts in regions.Also‚ Nomads falls in the category of interaction between humans and the environment.Nomads are people to do not stay in one place for a long time they usually move to place to place and they utilized the environment to their own advantage
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As written by Isabel Allende‚ the novel “Ines of My Soul” captures the Spanish Conquest of the South Americas during the early to late 1500’s. In this story of Inés Suárez‚ an actual historic figure who lived in the early-mid 1500’s and one of the founders of Chile‚ she is a very old woman about to die and is recounting the story of her adventure-filled life to her daughter. She was born into a poor family and spent her childhood in Spain‚ and eventually made her way to the New World. She lived in
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people as possible. The agents are concealed easily and said to be difficult to detect. Terrorists tend to attack major cities or densely crowded areas‚ and government buildings (Nicolson‚ 2001). One such agent that was used as early as 1520 by Cortez as an assault on the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitilan in Mexico was the smallpox virus. The American Government used this weapon during the wars with the Native Americans. The United States has eradicated the disease with vaccines over the many
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in my opinion. Two men‚ Tulio and Miguel‚ win a map to the lost City of Gold named El Dorado in a gambling match‚ which had been riffed. They were shortly detained when they were captured and imprisoned by one of the ships of the Spanish explorer Cortez. Corez’s
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings 500 years ago Europeans came across the Americas I. The Shaping of North America a. Existence of a super continent b. 10 million years ago the basic geological shape of N America emerged c. 2 million years ago - The Great Ice Age d. When the glaciers retreated (10‚000) N America’s current landscape for formed e. Only the Great Salt Lake exists as remains from Lake Bonneville II. Peopling the Americas a. The Great Ice Age also led to populating of
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The Renaissance is marked as the rebirth of ancient culture for the aristocratic class that lived in Italy‚ England‚ and France circa 1350-1650. This is an era in which the term‚ Renaissance humanism emerged. What is humanism as it relates to the Renaissance? Well‚ this form of “Humanism can be defined as a movement that encourages the study of form and content of classical learning. Renaissance humanists were obsessed with the recovery‚ study‚ interpretation‚ and transmission of the intellectual
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On the fifth season of FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel‚ Lady Gaga will play the character of Countess. Countess is Elizabeth‚ the owner of Hotel Cortez‚ a blood-thirsty‚ glamorous socialite and fashion icon who is constantly devising evil plans to serve her purpose in life. She needs to feed on people’s blood to maintain her youth and beauty. The 29 year-old singer‚ plays alongside the show’s regulars. Donovan(Matt Bomer)‚will be her blood-hungry lover‚ whose domesticity actually goes against
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Angelina M. Cortez Sometimes market activities (production‚ buying‚ and selling) have unintended positive or negative effects outside the market’s scope. These are called externalities. As a policy maker concerned with correcting the effects of gases and particulates emitted by and local power plant‚ answer the following questions: What 1 policy could you use to reduce the total amount of emissions? I would implement a Pollution Reduction Tax‚ which would tax firms based on the levels of
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account the role of women on the road is the movie ‘’Y Tu Mamá También’’ which is directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The movie follows two boys‚ Julio and Tenoch‚ who are in search of excitement and adventure when they run into the older and attractive Luisa Cortez at an elegant wedding in Mexico (Amaya and Blair 2007‚ 49). They decide to persuade Luisa to take a trip with them through Mexico‚ by telling her they are going to visit a fictitious beach called Boca del Cielo. Despite her initial hesitation to accept
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