The Transformation of European Society‚ by Gary B. Nash‚ analyzed the British colonies in North America. By highlighting major changes that took place in the colonies in the eighteenth century‚ Nash showed how the European mind was transformed from the rigid‚ hierarchal society of Europe‚ to the democratic‚ individualist of America. Nash’s first point was about how economic change affected people’s views. Since there was so much land in the colonies‚ it was easier for people to "get rich quick" and
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In the middle of the first century A.D‚ the Roman practice of painting naturalistic funerary portraits found its way to Egypt. Created for the purpose of covering the mummified‚ these portraits served as a record of the deceased as he or she had appeared in real life.1 Egypt became
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Three Decorated Jars Stately bicolor faience vessels with fine leafy ornament have been found fairly frequently in Alexandria‚ the Fayum towns‚ and Middle Egypt. In the course of the first century A.D.‚ the bodies of such vessels were covered with more and more decoration. The jar with figural decoration is said to be from the Fayum. Vases of this type were a principal production of the Memphite faience workshop. A single fine blue glaze was used‚ but the color turns to a violet
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Paper is made from the papyrus plant by separating it with a needle point into very thin strips as broad as possible. The choice quality comes from the center‚ and thence in the order of slicing. The (choice) quality in former times called ’hieratic’ because it was devoted only to religious books has‚ out of flattery‚ taken on the name of Augustus‚ and the next quality that of Livia‚ after his wife‚ so that the ’hieratic’ has dropped to third rank. The next had been named ’amphitheatric’ from
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Chapter 9 Multiple Choice 1. The supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group is known ascensorship 2. In 1878‚ Eadweard Muybridge photographed a galloping horse‚ and discovered thathorses occasionally gallop with all four hooves off the ground. 3. The use by artists of the camera obscura (literally dark room) began inthe Italian Renaissance. 4. Artists like Peter Campus became interested in video because video signals could be
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(1982) mapped area between the north Bahariya and the south Qattara Depression where the Tertiary rock units cropping out in the Fayum‚ Bahariya and Qattara Depression where the Fayum facies interfinger the Bahariya facies. They distinguished the Eocene rocks and dividing it to Mokattam Formation representing the Middle Eocene and upper Eocene Birket Qarun and Qasr el Sagha Formation which represent deposition
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Between 5200 and 4000 BC‚ knowledge of plant cultivation spread from the Fayum into southern (or Upper) Egypt‚ but this did not immediately lead to Egyptians abandoning their cattle-herding ways. On the contrary‚ herding cattle‚ along with hunting wild game‚ continued to play much more important roles in prehistoric Upper Egyptian
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Period (as evidenced by a bronze statue of Thoth overseeing them while seated at a throne) (Shafer 1991: 35). However‚ it would seem that the Ogdoad could very well have been conceived as existing independently (as evidenced visually in the Book of Fayum) (Pinch 2002: 175). I believe the connection was established perhaps as a way to reconcile a major deity with the pre-existing myth that existed in the same time and space without much issue of one needing to overpower another. To go further with this
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INTRODUCTION GAIL (India) Ltd was incorporated in August 1984 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG). The company was initially given the responsibility of construction‚ operation & maintenance of the Hazira – Vijaypur – Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline Project. It was one of the largest cross-country natural gas pipeline projects in the world. Originally this 1800 Km long pipeline was built at a cost of Rs 1700 Crores and it laid
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Week Seven Notes: The Stepsirhines: Lemurs and Lorises Prosimians(Same thing as Stepsirhines): Lemurs‚ Lorises‚ Tarsiers: Most primitive of the primates Exhibit the fewest derived traits (as a group) of all primates Ancestral Characteristics (ie. Inherited from mammals) • Rely more on olfaction • Moist noise and long snout • Eyes slightly more lateral Classification of Prosimians: Lemurs‚ Lorises‚ and Tarsiers Order- primates Suborder: Strepsirhines (used to be Prosimians) • Means “wet-nosed”
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