entertainment value was pleasing‚ historical accuracy wasn’t the best. The movie shows the main character living in a mainly hunting forest‚ which isn’t something Mayans would do. Mayans relied heavily on agriculture and spent most of their time farming and trading‚ rather than hunting. The hunting lifestyle was depicted in the film‚ which is historically incorrect. In Apocalypto‚ their houses are made out of sticks‚ formed into a hut style in a forest. Maya villagers would typically live in more formed and
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Tokugawa Japan and Spanish colonial America led the world in silver production from 1500 to 1750. The primary flow of silver was from Japan to China and from the Americas to Europe. The documents explain the negative‚ bias and positive economic effects of the global flow of silver from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Documents 2‚ 5 and 3 all deal with the negative effects of the silver flow. Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa‚ a Spanish priest‚ states that more than 3‚000
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Jessica Jacobovitz November 10‚ 2014 5th Period Christian and Muslim DBQ Throughout all of time the Christians and the Muslims have had views that sometimes run parallel and sometimes these views are perpendicular to each other‚ which make them collide and intersect. Both Christians and Islam are a monotheistic religion; they believe that there is one true god. In addition they also both believe in Jesus‚ however the Muslims do not view him as the son of God‚ but rather as the last prophet
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after the end of World War II. Though the United States and Great Britain had once been strong allies with Soviet Russia during the war‚ the USSR’s fast spread of their communist beliefs to other Eastern Europe countries was a cause for alarm for the two nations‚ who feared that relations with these countries could falter in the event of a communist regime. “People’s Front” nations were constantly revolutionizing and becoming increasingly popular (Document F)‚ and the United States was desperate to
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DBQ: Swahili vs. Hansa Trading during the Post-classical era from 1000-1450 C.E. were what the many civilizations at that time heavily relied on‚ it had flourished and arouse to the point where many alliances were created. Many big cities were most notably successful in their trading and alliances. Smaller cities were also able to succeed by having alliance with one another; German Hansa in North Europe and the Swahili cities along the coast of East Africa were among the most successful cities
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work and have been challenged by all my classes. I am enrolled in two AP classes and the work has been tough. These classes are two main areas in which this challenge has come from. In my AP US History class‚ we have been focusing on the writing portion of the exam for quite some time now. The writing portion includes a DBQ (Document Based Question)‚ a LEQ (Long Essay Question)‚ and a short answer section. The DBQ and LEQ are two types of writing styles that I had never heard or done before.This
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an amazing sport that most people enjoy watching and playing. There are some games that can be surprising like these two teams who played on a Friday night Ely Tigers and Dillard Panthers. A series of people who wasn’t able to attend wonder what really happened and just how great of a catch it was when Donnel Wilson caught the winning touchdown pass. (The introduction of Football DBQ) A student in Ely high school wanted to know what really happened and so he interviewed some people. One of the interviewer
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Program Evaluation Final Johannes Kieding Simmons School for Social Work Program Evaluation Final Introduction and Background The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is one of the academic teaching hospitals of Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. The hospital has many different departments‚ including primary care clinics‚ inpatient psychiatry‚ outpatient psychiatry‚ as well as specialty clinics such as the Latino‚ Haitian‚ Portuguese‚ and the Asian linguistic teams. The CHA has three main locations:
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Conflict on a Trading Floor The case describes the ethical dilemma occurred in FirstAmerica Bank. The sales department of the bank was preparing a 700 mln. USD loan contract for one of the bank’s former client: Poseidon Cruise Lines. Poseidon intended to order a large cruise ship for their fleet to a French shipyard‚ which required a contract to be signed for five years and in French francs. This in turn raised concerns in Poseidon management‚ related to the possible economic costs/losses related
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“Two Statuettes of two worshipers”‚ from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar)‚ Iraq‚ ca. 2700 BCE. Ever since the beginning of time man has always had an eye for art. They have always been fascinated by what they see. For the most part art has to this day great meaning. Ranging from a person’s play toy to a sculpture opening people’s eyes to a flash back in time where Gods ruled. The art work I chose “two Statuettes of two worshipers”‚ from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell
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