The first chapter of Metcalf and Metcalf’s A Concise History of Modern India‚ addresses the popular assumption that India is a “timeless” country. Because of that misconception‚ people often correlate India’s past directly with the present‚ especially when it comes to the caste and other social organizational systems (Metcalf & Metcalf‚ 3). In reality‚ referring to the Mughal and Sultanate era of India as a stagnant period of time is misleading and incorrect. This underlying theme of the development
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History of Japan Ancient mythology holds that Japan’s history is tied to the sun goddess‚ called Amterasu. Legend has it that Amaterasu sent one of her descendants to unify people on the island of Kyushu. At the core of this unification was Shintoism a religion that is native to Japan. In the 6th century Buddhism‚ was introduced to Japan by the virtue of China and Korea. In the early 7th century Prince Regent Shotku‚ an adherent of Buddhism and a highly regarded figure to this day in Japan
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Television History In 1908 Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton‚ fellow of the Royal Society (UK)‚ published a letter in the scientific journal Nature in which he described how "distant electric vision" could be achieved by using a cathode ray tube (or "Braun" tube‚ after its inventor‚ Karl Braun) as both a transmitting and receiving device‚ apparently the first iteration of the electronic television method that would dominate the field until recently. He expanded on his vision in a speech given in
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certainly know right from wrong. Therefore ‚ we should fully exploit the advantages of the internet‚ that advantage should not do bad things or negative. Internet always contains interesting things. Internet is one of the greatest inventions of human history. When old does not have internet‚ humans can be difficult to share the necessary information useful life‚ thanks to the internet‚ today we know a lot of things good. We need to know to take advantage of the internet to be useful‚ or exploitation of
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FINAL 1) The principle message of Egyptian art is continuity—A seamless span of time reaching back infinitely in the history and forward into the future. 2) Babylonians developed a true arch before the Romans. 3) A kouors dating from the early Archaic period. 4) This work was done in BLANK period of the fifth century bc. Here we find the BLANK of a figure in motion. 5) For many travelers‚ this is the very symbol of Rome. The Collosseum rises on three
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SRN: 229113 Article 34 Article 34 TFEU states that “Quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between member states.” In regards to the quantitative restrictions‚ it is clear that member states cannot restrict the level of imports from other member states. MEQRs On the issue of measures having equivalent effect (MEQR)‚ the situation is unclear. In the case 8/74 Procureur du Roi v Dassonville(1974)‚ the Court of Justice gave
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Russia History * Ancient Russian -Russia was formed by colonizing cites which later on formed the Russian Empire. -A warrior named Rurik came into the eastern part of Russia with a group of Scandinavians‚ known as the Varangians crossed the Baltic Sea and emerged into Russia. -He & his partner‚ Oleg‚ took over cities‚ but helped invest into them. -Oleg managed to gain control of the lower region of Russia‚ which later on his son took over. -Faith was a big factor back then‚ according
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‘THE FORGOTTEN SOULS’: QUESTIONING THE MASCULINITY OF ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY. Paper presented at OTAZI conference on documentation and memorisation of dark histories‚ Bulawayo‚ 7-8 December 2012. Prisca Nyaude Research and Public Archives section‚ National Archives of Zimbabwe. E-mail: priscamarova@gmail.com. And Brenda Mamvura Records
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The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens‚ as long as 75‚000 years ago‚ or with earlier hominids including Homo erectusfrom about 500‚000 years ago.[1] The Indus Valley Civilisation‚ which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India‚ was the first major civilisation in South Asia.[2] A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature
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Main article: History of television In its early stages of development‚ television employed a combination of optical‚ mechanical and electronic technologies to capture‚ transmit and display a visual image. By the late 1920s‚ however‚ those employing only optical and electronic technologies were being explored. All modern television systems relied on the latter‚ although the knowledge gained from the work on electromechanical systems was crucial in the development of fully electronic television.
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