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    had a role to help contribute in industrialization. The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION happened at about 1760 and continued for about 100 years with new machines being created fueled by fossil fuels and other organic sources. Capital merchants in Britain used the PUTTING OUT SYSTEM to help accelerate production of raw materials like yarn‚ wool‚ cotton and other resources and gave these to families to create goods and then give it back to the employer for money in return. This

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    analysis....... 6. Hary Engle suggests that the company could be in trouble if Mike Anton\’s......... 7. Finally‚ assume sales volume reaches 1‚500‚000 units after mike........ 8. After computing all the numbers in the case..... The ancient Chinese civilization – one of the world’s earliest – flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia‚ China’s political system was based on hereditary monarchies‚ known as dynasties‚ beginning with the semi-mythological

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    Ancient Greek Olympics

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    honor of the greek God Zeus. People donated gifts to the God ‚ buildings ‚ statues ‚ altars and many more. In today’s olympics anyone is allowed to compete‚ during the olympia only Greeks were allowed to compete. The Greeks would travel thousands miles away to come compete.The greeks what year it was based on the olympics. Whoever won every four years had the olympiad name after them. The first Olympiad who was honored was Korobois of Elis‚ He was the winner of the race in 776 B.C. In ancient Olympics

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    The term civilization basically means the level of development at which people live together peacefully in communities. Ancient civilization refers specifically to the first settled and stable communities that became the basis for later states‚ nations‚ and empires. The study of ancient civilization is concerned with the earliest segments of the much broader subject called ancient history. The span of ancient history began with the invention of writing in about 3100 BC and lasted for more than 35

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    The Ancient Greeks contributed a lot to modern society‚ but the biggest contribution of them was their contributions to the field of science and mathematics. To start off‚ the Pythagorean theorem contributed a lot to the field of mathematics. What the Pythagorean theorem does is help us to calculate the lengths of the sides of right triangles. Secondly‚ Archimedes contributed a ton to both fields. One of the most famous things that Archimedes did was find out if a crown that the king had ordered

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    long-standing established practices lies an idea that at least one person did not want the rest of the world to forget. The different types of traditions range from lighthearted family parties to global competitions; the greatest of which is the historically famous Olympic Games. The Olympic Games first began in ancient Greece in the early Christian era (Benagh). Although the Games began in Greece as a formal way to pay respects

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    a part of a religious festival and in honour of the leader of the Greek Gods‚ Zeus. Only men‚ boys and unmarried girls were allowed to attend and compete in the games. If a married women was at the Olympic Games‚ they would be punished expect if they just owned a horse in the chariot race. This event held every four years and approximately 50 thousand people came all over the Greek world to watch and also take part. In the ancient Greece Olympics there was no such thing as gold‚ bronze and silver

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    Ancient Greek Heroism

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    in ancient Greece was not easy to acquire. There are certain aspects and requirements that must have been met in one’s life to be deemed a hero in Greek culture. The Oxford English Dictionary Online defines heroism as "the action and qualities of a hero; exalted courage‚ intrepidity or boldness; heroic conduct" and a hero as "the name given to men of superhuman strength‚ courage‚ or ability‚ favoured by the gods and men‚ and immortal." Buxton (2004: 103) stated that according to the ancient Greeks

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    History of Sport Tutorial Paper 1: Women and Sport in the Ancient World Is there evidence of female participation in the ancient Olympic Games? According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) there have been over 30‚923 women participating in the modern Olympic Games over the period of 108 years since the first women participated at the 1900 Paris Olympic Games. At the latest Olympic Games held in Beijing‚ out of the 11‚196 total athletes‚ 4‚746 were women that were involved at

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    The Advanced Civilization Of Mesopotamia Introduction Mesopotamia built huge structures even though they were the first civilization ever but‚ just because they were the first civilization doesn’t mean that they were perfect. In fact‚ the mesopotamian city-states didn’t have much in common at all‚ causing them to fight. Mesopotamia was a very advanced civilization. Mesopotamians had very little in common. It was established between two rivers at a little earlier than 3100 BC. Mesopotamia was the

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