Was Harappan Civilisation in the Indus Valley a state-level society like contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt? “It is time to view the archaeological data for what it is and not what one thinks it is” * Shaffer 1982 The above statement by Shaffer summarises my view that although there is a possibility of Harappan Civilization (3rd millennium BC) in the Indus Valley being a state-level society‚ like contemporary Mesopotamia and Egypt‚ the lack of concrete written and archaeological evidence
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6.01 Assignment 1. Question: What did they gain in World War II? A. Veterans: Veterans were given a bill called the GI Bill of Rights‚ which guaranteed returning veterans a year’s worth of unemployment compensation and medical coverage. This GI Bill also offered low-interest loans for buying a home or starting a business. Most importantly‚ the GI Bill paid for veterans’ job training and education. B. Women: After their husbands returned home from the war‚ many women had children. After having children
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The attitudes of Christianity and Islam toward merchants and trade from the religions in the 1500’s had mixed results. Many Christians didn’t accept merchants and trade because of their love for money‚while others thought it was okay only if you shared among the poor. Many Muslims thought that trading was okay as long as the merchants were fair‚ while others thought it was okay only if they they shared among the poor just like some Christians thought too. To better understand the attitudes of Christianity
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Sometime around 1050‚ Englishmen dug up a skull of a dane and started to kick it around in frustration toward the daneIt became known as "Kicking the dane’s head" .The skull began to hurt the boy’s feet‚ so a boy came up with the idea of using an inflated cow bladder to help their feet(Tuttle‚ 13). In 1189‚ King Henry banned the game‚ because people were too involved in the game to practice archery and fighting for war(Tuttle‚ 13). During the 1500’s the game shifted to Ireland where people invented
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Piano‚ stringed keyboard musical instrument‚ derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte‚ it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col pian e forte (Italian for “harpsichord with soft and loud”). It was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori‚ a harpsichord
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The photo to the left shows this 5 year old boy working in a oyster plant in 1911. Everyday he has to run barefoot on cracked shells to retrieve buckets of shellfish to shuck. That company hired many children of his age to shuck oyster for as little as 30 cents a day‚ approximately $7 in today’s currency. Because of this story and many other stories we now have child labor laws. As a result these laws were made. In 1836 Massachusetts limits children under 15 working in factories to attend at least
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narrator · The narrator is anonymous and can be thought of as Dickens himself. The narrator maintains a clear sympathy for the story’s morally good characters‚ including Sydney Carton‚ Charles Darnay‚ Doctor Manette‚ and Lucie Manette. Though he criti-cizes ruthless and hateful figures such as Madame Defarge‚ who cannot appreciate love‚ he understands that oppression has made these characters the bloodthirsty creatures they have become. point of view · The narrator speaks in the third person
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The Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies were both mainly settled by people of English decent during the early 1600s. Although each colony was founded by people of the same origin‚ by the 1700s‚ both regions had evolved into distinct societies based on hardships that they faced‚ the type of government they had‚ and the reason for settling the two regions. Each society was faced with numerous challenges when starting out in each colony including hunger‚ inability to work‚ and harsh environmental
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Question 1 Prior to the arrival of Europeans‚ the Iroquois developed a confederation to: control violence that may have occurred over territory conflicts. Question 2 The religious dissatisfaction‚ that ultimately played a factor in the colonization of the New World by "Separatists‚" began in 1517 when which of the following men publically protested the Catholic Church? Martin Luther Question 3 Refer to the map entitled "Indian Groups in the Areas of First Contact (Map
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NAME: AMDG ESSAY WRITING QUIZ AP US HISTORY ELMORE Circle the letter that “most correctly” answers the question with regard to writing an essay on the following topic: “Belief in the freedom of religion was central to the development of some colonies‚ while in other colonies such freedom was denied.” Assess the validity of this statement. 1. All of the following should appear in an introductory paragraph on this essay topic EXCEPT a. definitions of important concepts like
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