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    Chapter 22 Maritime Explorations: 15th-18th Centuries What were the motives and means of maritime explorations? Search for resources and land suitable for cash crops Search for commodities: spices‚ silk‚ gold‚ ivory‚ slaves etc. Search for converts to Christianity Navigational technology and knowledge of the wind (monsoon) Maritime and land-based empires (Trading post empires) Was European expansion in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean worlds different? Territorial empires in the

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    Chapter 19 Read Pages 483-506 ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: _______ Historical Terms and Concepts: Please include the significance for each term/concept. 1. Bantu Migrations migrations of the Bantu people that helped to spread agriculture and herding to many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa‚ iron metallurgy‚ and rapidly increased the population. (started around 2000 BCE)‚ linguistically influential. 2. Stateless society term relating to societies such as those of sub-Saharan Africa after the

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    In the fifth sermon‚ Joseph Butler looks at how it is that we are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves. He argues that that in order to understand how we are to love our neighbor‚ we first need to consider the different meanings that “as thy self” could have‚ such as that we should have a similar affection towards our neighbor as what we have for ourselves. Butler states that our affections toward others should be similar to the affections we have toward ourselves. This means that‚ just as

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    Land was very important to the Europeans. And especially the European settlers coming to the new land. In England land meant that you were very wealthy. If you owned large amounts of land you also could have been someone with a lot of political power. The majority of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe because they were very poor. They were just lucky that they got a spot on the ship. They also belonged to religious groups that didn’t have a lot of power. In the new world no one owned

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    INDEX of CLUES for MONSTER Rational Choice True responsibility enters into Kody’s life when his girlfriend gets pregnant but Kody decides he can’t be a father because he does not want to settle down‚ he wants to start moving up in the gang.—Kody makes the decision to focus on his gang life and leave his pregnant girlfriend because he will not gain the respect or money he could in the gang.—p. 44 While in the hospital his roommate was from Georgia was totally taken away with how things were in

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    Chapter 4 Reading Questions: Why is so little known about the Harappan society? What is it that we do know about the nature of that society? Because the earliest Harappan remains are below the water table‚ archaeologists can’t research them. Also the Harappans used an elaborate pictographic system that has not yet been able to be deciphered. We do however‚ that it had city walls‚ a fortified citadel‚ and a large granary-Harappa and Mohenjo-daro represented an investment of human labor and established

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    Gibbs‚ Dylan Period 5‚ Ap World History 8/25/13 Chapter 2 Epic of Gilgamesh Agricultural ecomomies City congrigation Mesopatamia Community benifeit Irrigation systems Sargon Hammurabi Lex talionis Assyrians Colapse of babylonia Administrative techniques Advanced weapons Complex society Mettalurgic innovation alloyed weapons Agriculture slaves Writing Literacy Abstract ideas Hebrews Israelites and Jews Hebrews Israelites

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    Applying Behavioral Science to Service Encounters Dr. W. Cannon-Brown Enclosed are the findings of the research you asked for on 3 June 2013 on Behavioral Science for Service Encounters. The main findings of the research are:

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    first 9 chapters‚ Victor and the monster never communicate with each other. But in chapter 10 this is the first face to face encounter that occurs between the monster and Victor since the day that the monster had come to life. The encounter takes place on the summit of Montanvert and this is where the monster begs Victor to listen to his own personal tale. Throughout this encounter with the monster‚ we see Victor begin to realize that the monster is not out to harm him; he just wants Victor to listen

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    Within the movie “Close encounters of a third kind”‚ a common theme of trust plays a role throughout the movie. We see this theme expressed through the connection of the two main characters in the movie while they venture to devil’s tower‚ as well as towards the end of the movie‚ when humans finally come into contact with the UFO’s for the first time. As Roy and Jillian venture together to devil’s tower in hopes of finding information about what is going on‚ and also find Jillian’s son‚ the two characters

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