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    Joseph peddicord 6-08 12/8/16 essay In Egypt the people believed that the Nile was a god so they held religious ceremonies there. They believed that the Nile was a god so when the Nile flooded the people thought that the gods were mad. The Nile shaped ancient Egypt by giving the people water and other goods they also believed that Egypt was a gift from the Nile. My road map is that the Nile gave the people available recourses like water crops and that gave them the ability to have some of the best

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    Culture can be defined as the aspects that make up a group of people‚ ranging from religious beliefs to the food that is common to that area of the world (Zimmerman‚ 2017). Culture varies from region to region and is passed to the next generation. It can change throughout time and is shaped by historical events and times of conflict. One country that is rich in culture is England. Being one of America’s strongest allies and the fact that the English were some of the earliest American

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    Geography had it’s pros and cons on ancient Greece and really changed Greek history over all. Here are four ways geograthy changed ancient Greece. The first good thing geography did to ancient Greece was that Greece was a rough country and had lots of rocky terrain and mountains so Greeks mostly sailed to get around and also traded across the Mediterranean‚ Aegean‚ and Black seas‚ therefore making the water a “highway” for ancient Greece. The second good thing about the Greeks Geography is that

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    Geography has had a dramatic influence on the lives of people in ancient civilizations. The Indus River Valley and Chinese Civilizations are both examples of societies that used their geography to help them as civilizations. These civilizations were able to develop based on the resources they had‚ and were able to become complex civilizations by irrigating floods and devising early plumbing systems. Geography had a dramatic influence on the lives of people in the Indus River Valley. Primarily

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    Geography and the development/diffusion of human society- World history- MesopotamiaMesopotamia is Greek for “land between the rivers.” • The land is supplied by water from both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. • Land is mostly flat‚ but borders mountains. • Similar to the Nile River‚ both rivers would flood yearly and cause the crops of the land to be much more plentiful than in surrounding areas. However‚ these rivers are much stronger than the Nile which would create a much worse flooding

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    Csécsei Luca 12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that

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    Egypt is a land with a rich and varied history that spans from the 10th century BC. The country is seen by many Historians as being the “cradle of civilization”. This is because it housed one of the most advanced cultures for many centuries. The Egyptians were responsible for some of the earliest examples of writing with hieroglyphs. Egypt is also home to the Sphinx‚ which is one of the great feats of architectural engineering in history. Ancient Egyptians were also one of the first civilizations

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    Egypt is in Northern Africa. It is south of the Mediterranean Sea. It Is on the Nile River which is the second largest river in the world. It is located near the Red Sea which is to its east. To the west is the Libyan desert which as the ancient greek historian Herodotus said‚ “is wholly the gift of the nile ‚ Egypt would be just the barren desert that surrounds the river.’’ Egypt had two regions. Upper Egypt which started from the first cataract that was one hundred

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    Religion Shapes Culture and Identity After reading Julia Alvarez ’ In the Time of the Butterflies it is quite clear that religion has a drastic impact on culture and identity. Be it on the individual level as the impact of Catholicism on Patria ’s life‚ or on a national scale and its effects on the country of the Dominican Republic as a whole. During the 1950 ’s in the Dominican Republic the Roman Catholic Church was very much removed from politics. Until the dictator Trujillo came to power

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    Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia Egypt and Mesopotamia‚ although similar‚ are different as a result of one major natural resource: a river. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia were an agricultural based society that believed in the existence of many deities; however‚ they differed in the aspect of how they evolved as an agricultural society and whether they feared or praised their gods. Mesopotamia‚ also known as the Fertile Crescent‚ was located inside the Euphrates and Tigris River. The fertile land

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