Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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Ottomans 1450-1750 1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain 1502 - Slaves to Americas 1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1571 - Battle of Lepanto‚ (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa 1607 - foundation of Jamestown 1618-1648 - 30 years war 1683- unsuccessful
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Hernando de Soto was born in Jerez de los Caballeros‚ Spain sometime around the year 1500. He was born to parents who lived in Extremadura‚ an area of great hardship and poverty. Like many young men at the time‚ de Soto longed to escape Extremadura and achieve military fame exploring new lands. In 1514‚ de Soto sailed with the Spanish governor of Panama where he assisted in the conquest of Central America. From an early age‚ de Soto gained a reputation for bravery‚ intellect‚ and brutality
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height of their empire‚ dating around 1450. Although Machu Picchu was first constructed by the Incas‚ many people have been through. According to “The Stones of Machu Picchu” by Duane Damon‚ “After its takeover by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s‚ men like Pedro Cieza de Leon‚ a soldier‚and Father Bernabe’ Cobo‚
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Critiquing of “The Exorcist” Lyndsey Anderson Introduction to Film Instructor Cicely Denean-Cobb January 7‚ 2013 Critiquing of “The Exorcist” The movie “The Exorcist” is one of the most classic horror movies ever known. It invokes man’s greatest most primal instinct “Fear”. This film has created a lot of controversy between the church and producer. The church saying that it is the work of the devil and that a demon lives in the film. While the producer says it is just
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The Iberian powers were able to establish and maintain colonial empires in the Americas for so long based on luck. There was no way to foresee the outcome of each conquest. There were a few times that the battles could have gone either way. It is commonly argued that the Iberians were able to colonize easily because they were “civilized men” while the natives were “barbarians”. (Restall 132) The real culprits were military prowess‚ strategic thinking‚ Iberian disease‚ and lack of a unified community
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River is the champion of the Generation Adidas Cup The Sixth Division beat Flamengo 2-1 in the final and‚ for the third consecutive year‚ the trophy remained in hands of el Millonario. The Category 2000‚ lead by Juan José Borrelli‚ was crowned champion of the Generation Adidas Cup‚ played in Dallas‚ after beating Flamengo by 2-1 in the final. Julián Álvarez was in charge of opening the scoreboard. After receiving a low center from Matías Benítez‚ he defined with a right kick to the goalkeeper’s
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establish an ideal government‚ yet succeeded in incorporating the natives into their own society. One of the Europeans’ expectations of the New World was a perfect government in which everyone would be equal. In The Tempest‚ Shakespeare’s character Gonzalo describes it as a government where there would be “no occupation; all men idle‚ all;/And women too‚ but innocent and pure;/No sovereignty.” (II.1‚ ll. 154-156) Even as his comrades ridiculed him‚ he is steadfast in his belief‚ and simply labels them
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Manlongat‚ Artemio Gonzalo A. 2LM1 Movie Review: Jose Rizal by Marilou Diaz- Abaya A. In the film Jose Rizal by Marilou Diaz-Abaya‚ many facts about the life and the last days of Dr. Jose Rizal was presented. However‚ many inconsistencies according to history were depicted in the movie. The inconsistencies‚ I think are to enrich and to give the movie more substance as it progresses. These inconsistencies were; the friend of Dr. Jose Rizal that visits him in his cell‚ Simoun died because of a
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* 9/5/12 * Q-What is the best way you used a computer to learn something? Why did that work so well? * Internet helped the best * * September 6‚ 2012 * Q-Why is it important that you get to class on time and started on your POD * A-So your not holding up the class and get on with the that days lesion! * * September 10‚ 12 * Q-Reflect on the video we watched last week! * A- people like that chage the world for other people‚ because he saved lives and took
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