brought the camel and the North Arabian saddle to expand TransSaharan Trade. Jewish merchants prized command of Arabic to aid them in longdistance trade. A Persian Muslim diplomat‚ described Calicut (port city in India) as a place where there were no restrictions on foreign merchants bringing goods from throughout the Indian Ocean Trade Network. Arab speaking merchants were treated just the same as Hindu merchants by the Hindu Ruler coins produced by governments and having arabic texts and
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took is best sword. He went to Grendel’s mother’s lair and fought her there. During the fight Beowulf loses his sword and is forced to use a weapon found in the lair‚ Another sword. Beowulf then cuts of the head of Grendel’s mom and win the fight. From this he take the hilt of the sword as a prize. In Beowulf’s third and final fight he faces a dragon. The dragon is terrorizing his land and his people. So Beowulf goes to fight this beast‚ he suits up and takes a shield for the fire. In the fight
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Nixon‚ who has also been described as a paranoid‚ and secretive‚ person to begin with‚ had made recordings of conversations in his office
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One significant change from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment were the rise of philosophers and their ideas. During the Middle Ages‚ studies‚ science‚ and philosophy had dissipated in Western Europe ― due to reasons such as the fall of the Roman Empire‚ the Dark Ages‚ etc.―‚ leaving only the Byzantines to continue their studies in philosophy. Having more philosophers in the West during the Enlightenment demonstrates an important change from the Middle Ages‚ because‚ these philosophers were able
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Reconstruction occurred from 1865 to 1877. It could be considered successful because it restored the United States as a whole after the Civil War. Even though it brought the states back together‚ it stilled failed in many ways. Reconstruction gave the Government a chance to end segregation and change society’s view of African Americans‚ but nobody took it. Reconstruction amplified racial discrimination. Some examples being “Black codes‚” sharecropping‚ and the Ku Klux Klan. The “Black Codes” were
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capital of Crete. Of Greece’s more than 2‚000 islands‚ only about 170 are inhabited. Greece’s topography is about 80% mountainous and has one of the largest coastlines of any country at 8‚500 miles. In fact‚ no part of Greece is more than 50 miles from the ocean . The Port of Piraeus‚ located near Athens‚ is Europe’s busiest port and the third busiest port in the world
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time to see when it ended. I set the dials and went back to 1863. Before I knew it‚ I was back to when they had slaves. When I got there I acted like I was supposed to be there. I guess it was like a normal day so I just went along with what anyone did or said. Then in the afternoon something happened that I’ve always wanted to be a part of and witness. Like I said before it‚ was a regular day until later that day. After a few hours went by of me being there and watching what everyone was doing
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led the first air attack on Japanese after they attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. This was the most daring operations by the United States in the young Pacific war at this time and was known as the Doolittle Raid. The attack was launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet. Doolittle wired a Japanese piece medal he had received prior to the war to the first 500 pound bomb to be dropped on Tokyo. In order for the over loaded planes to take off‚ the carrier had to run at full speed. The Hornet
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tendencies and events led to the undermining and eventually the end of Reconstruction efforts by 1877. Reconstruction was nothing more than just an envisioned change in the social structure from the dominant white Americans to the lower class African
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Slavery If you had a slave just sitting in front of you and you could take it‚ would you? In the United States slavery started and lasted for a long time until people wanted to put it to an end. Slavery is not a good thing and thank gosh it came to an end. At first‚ people were getting tired of doing things on there own and so they wanted someone else to do it for them. According to "The making of America" "people were getting older and were getting tired of doing things on there own like farming
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