Did the Ancient Greek Gods exist? The Ancient Greeks regarded their religion and mythology with much respect and loyalty. Although the Ancient Greek Gods are now seen as an explanation created by man‚ for natural forces and the world around us‚ there has been much evidence both for and against the debate that these Gods were real. The Greeks believed that the Earth was created with the birth of Gaia‚ or Mother Earth‚ from the dark void known as Chaos. It was believed that Gods were all-powerful
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without being able to read one line of the writings that made her father wealthy and locally famous) From where did William Shakspere secure his knowledge of modern French‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Danish? Not to mention classical Latin and Greek? (Ben Jonson‚ who knew Shakspere intimately‚ stated that the Stratford actor understood "small Latin and less Greek") No record exists of William Shakspere as having ever played a leading role in the famous dramas he is supposed to have written or in
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For many years scientists have doubted and tried proving if Atlantis was real or not‚ and Atlantis is real. Atlantis is real because of the evidence that cutting-edge technology has found such as satellite photographs and new discoveries‚ Plato’s writings‚ and the fact that Atlantis is a logical myth. Atlantis is real due to the new evidence just found. This evidence was found due to the advanced technology of today. Satellite photographs found by Richard Freund recently identified what looked to
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conditions‚ beatings‚ ripping people from their homeland and racism. Three major questions come to mind when I think of slavery in America‚ why did it exist? What was slavery like? And lastly‚ what did it do to America? Through my personal readings I have come to understand these three questions and the vast answers that follow them. Why did Slavery Exist in the New World? To say that slavery existed solely because of racism is far beyond the real reasoning. Through my readings‚ The Peculiar Institution
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tall and is covered in ornate biblical carvings as well as an early Christian poem in Latin. The cross both exists in the world and has the world existing inside of it. Its location in its environment‚ both past and present‚ play a vital role in how the cross exists and is experienced by those who go to see it. The complex backstory and composition play a role in the ways in which the world exists in the Ruthwell cross. Although we may never know for sure where the cross came from or why it was built
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to Earth‚ and since we do not‚ such life does not exist. Though Enrico Fermi did question the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life‚ he did not publish any material on the subject suggesting that the absence is paradoxical. The paradox was introduced shortly after Fermi’s death‚ first in a paper published by Michael Hart. Though it is frequently cited as such‚ the Fermi paradox is not positive evidence that extraterrestrial life does not exist‚ and should not discourage the search for extraterrestrial
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congressmen and senators‚ today we convene to discuss the repercussions of events that occurred nearly three-hundred years before our nation’s birth; events that‚ had they not occurred‚ it is a certainty that the United States of America would not exist as it does today. The event I am speaking about of course is the world famous voyage of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus‚ and his subsequent discovery of the American continents. One thing that is not disputed by any historian of merit is
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Ancient history. The Xia dynasty was the first Chinese dynasty‚ from 2070 BC to 1600 BC. Many historians debate on whether the Xia dynasty really existed‚ or was just a legend‚ there has not been any conclusive evidence on if it really existed or not. The Xia dynasty was recorded in ancient Chinese writings‚ but no archaeological discoveries can confirm these writings. The Shang dynasty took over in 1600 BC and ended in 1054 BC. The people
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The Trojan War‚ the event depicted in Homer’s Iliad‚ was the most popular subject in Greek drama and told its story elaborately to next generations. According to Homer‚ the war started because Helen‚ the most beautiful Greek woman and wife of a Greek king‚ Menelaus‚ decided to leave her husband and ran away with a Trojan Prince‚ Paris. This angered the Greeks so they sailed to Troy and fought for Helen’s return. As the war continued on‚ the Greeks were forced to plan a new strategy to attack Troy
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What did Hitler do to make him one of biggest terrorists in the history of this Earth? We know the general story of Hitler‚ but do we know everything he did? Hitler became the worst terrorist of all time‚ because he rounded up several million Jews and killed them with poisonous gasses in Concentration Camps for 6 years and invaded various countries killing many other non-Jews too. Adolf Hitler started off running for president of Germany but ended up losing to Paul Von Hindenburg in
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