Chapter one the first civilization I. Introduction A. The Idea of Civilization The West is an idea that developed slowly during Greek and Roman civilization. Initially the Greeks referred to their homeland as the Europe—or “West.” The Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians
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From "RP" to "Estuary English": The concept ’received ’ and the debate about British pronunciation standards Hamburg 1998 Author: Gudrun Parsons Beckstrasse 8 D-20357 Hamburg e-mail: Parsons@public.uni-hamburg.de Table of Contents Foreword ................................................................................................. i List of Abbreviations ............................................................................... ii 0. 1. Introduction .......................
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Chapter 1 Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East 1) The earliest prehuman species thus far discovered is called A) Homo sapiens. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo habilis. D) Neanderthal man. E) Homo erectus. Answer: B Page Ref: 4 2) The first use of fire is attributed to A) Homo habilis. B) Cro-Magnon man. C) Neanderthal man. D) Australopithecus. E) Homo erectus. Answer: E Page Ref: 4 3) Neanderthal man lived primarily in A) North America. B) Europe. C) Arabia D)
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ORIENTALISM Also by the author Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography Beginnings: Intention and Method ORIENTALISM Edward W. Said Routledge & Kegan Paul London and Henley First published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 39 Store Street‚ London WCIE 7DD‚ and Broadway House‚ Newton Road‚ Henley-on-Thames‚ Oxon RG9 1EN Reprinted and first published as a paperback in 1980 Set in Times Roman and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited Trowbridge & Esher
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HISTORY TIMELINE WORLD HISTORY TIMELINE FROM ANCIENT HISTORY TO 21ST CENTURY COPYRIGHT © 2010 - www.ithappened.info Table of Contents Ancient history .................................................................................................................................... 4 100‚000 to 800 BC........................................................................................................................... 4 800 BC to 300 BC...............................................
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身披狮皮 (In the Skin of a Lion) by Michael Ondaatje (英国病人作者) The joyful will stoop with sorrow‚ and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake‚ I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion. THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH Never again will a single story be told as though it were the only one. JOHN BERGER This is a story a young girl gathers in a car during the early hours of the morning. She listens and asks questions as the vehicle travels through darkness. Outside
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A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and by John Stuart Mill 1 A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and by John Stuart Mill The Project Gutenberg EBook of A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive‚ by John Stuart Mill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it‚ give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A System of Logic: Ratiocinative
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Machiavelli_0523 09/15/2005 09:27 AM THE ONLINE LIBRARY OF LIBERTY © Liberty Fund‚ Inc. 2005 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/index.php NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI‚ THE ART OF WAR (NEVILLE TRANS.) (1675) URL of this E-Book: http://oll.libertyfund.org/EBooks/Machiavelli_0523.pdf URL of original HTML file: http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0523 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher who wrote a famous piece of advice to The Prince on how
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Francis Bacon and the SeventeenthCentury Intellectual Discourse Francis Bacon and the SeventeenthCentury Intellectual Discourse Anthony J. Funari francis bacon and the seventeenth-century intellectual discourse Copyright © Anthony J. Funari‚ 2011. All rights reserved. All quotations from John Donne’s poetry come from The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne‚ ed. Charles M. Coffin (New York‚ NY: Modern Library‚ 2001). All quotations from John Wilmot’s poetry come from The Complete
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Books by Edward T. Hall THE SILENT L A N G U A G E THE HIDDEN DIMENSION H A N D B O O K FOR PROXEMIC RESEARCH THE FOURTH DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE: The Impact of Building on Man’s Behavior (with Mildred Reed Hall) THE DANCE OF LIFE: The Other Dimension of Time HIDDEN DIFFERENCES: Doing Business with the Japanese (with Mildred Reed Hall) BEYOND CULTURE ANCHOR BOOKS EDITIONS‚ 1969‚ 1990 Copyright © 1966‚ 1982 by Edward T. Hall All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
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