choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Reading Comprehension Directions Read the following selections. Then answer the questions that follow. Athene’s City Olivia Coolidge In the days when Greece was first being settled‚ Cecrops was king in Attica‚ a rugged‚ triangular little country‚ good mainly for goat farming and the culture of honey bees‚ and surrounded on two sides by the sea. Here Cecrops planned a city around a steep rock that jutted from the plain
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how historically accurate is the new world 1.) How historically accurate was the movie you watched? How do you know? Did any inaccuracies affect your perception of history? The new world was accurate for the most part‚ but there were few inaccuracies that occurred during the movie. For one‚ it is not historically proven that the relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith was a romance relationship‚ as portrayed in the movie. In The New World‚ Smith leaves Jamestown because of orders from
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Revolution was quite inevitable due to the economic‚ social‚ and political issues that divided the colonists from Great Britain. Economic issues played a huge rule in pushing the America’s into a revolution. The Stamp Act of 1765‚ for example‚ was a huge contributing factor. Thus act was the first tax levied directly in American colonists by the British government and imposed tax on all paper documents in pursuit of decreasing their large debt. The colonists insisted the act was unconstitutional
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unnoted examples that show the gravity of these issues. A period of violence specifically targeting members of lesbian‚ gay‚ bi-sexual‚ and transgender (LGBT) groups in Honduras resulted in the brutal killings of 21 people in 2010. One of these victims was
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The Persian Empire The Persian Empire was one of the most successful empires in the world‚ largely because of its strategic geographical location. First‚ the location of the Persian Empire prior to its expansion was between the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to the south while the northern side of the empire lay the Caspian Sea. A plethora of rivers‚ including River Tigris and River Euphrates contributed immensely to the growth of the empire due to its strategic position and contribution in irrigation
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Revolution‚ but have you ever wondered why it was called “revolutionary?” In the 1760s‚ Parliament started taxing the colonies to pay off the huge debts they made during the Seven Years’ War. As more and more taxes and laws were passed to take the colonists’ money‚ they became more and more angry. Finally‚ the colonies revolted against their motherland. They created the Continental Congress to make their own laws. The Continental Army‚ led by George Washington‚ was created from one of these laws to defeat
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How successful was the Weimar Republic (1919-1923)? As First World War end Germany had to face different problems. One of these problems was the fact that as the Kaiser abdicated‚ a new government was created. This new government was The Weimar Republic and the First President of the Republic was Friedrich Ebert. On the one hand‚ the Weimar republic brought many improvements to Germany and learned to cope with the problems the country was facing at the time. As soon as Friedrich Ebert became the
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Explanation of how successful the Delian League was: In my understanding‚ I strongly believed based on history and research that the Delian League recorded huge success. They are great advantages over the Persians and therefore used the opportunity to register victory in the area of military administration and control. In all the battles‚ great fear was in their rivals due to the defeat registered even before the league. The administration success over the conquering of the Thracian Chersonese and
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The Civil War Was An Inevitable Event In American History The Civil War was a nesscary war created by our own demise. As preivous mistakes of allowing slavery and compromise allowed a great nation such as the United States to have a nesscary war amongst each other to radacate it from its lands. This great issue can be traced back to the declaration of independence‚ three-fithts compromise‚ and as George Washington warned of political parties. This paper will show how the Civil War was an inevitable
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James Lind’s scientific and medical work contributed significantly to modern medical science. He was born on October 4‚ 1716 in Scotland‚ to Margaret Smelum and James Lind. During his time period‚ much of the information known today about diseases and illnesses was not yet discovered‚ and people believed that many of the diseases were God punishing humanity. On top of that‚ people thought the symptoms of a disease were the disease. Despite being born into a middle class family‚ Lind was able to get
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