Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy‚ in a wealthy and merchant family. In 1260‚ the first journey east of Marco Polo’s father and uncle‚ Nicolo and Maffeo Polo‚ set out and they arrived at the court of Kublai Khan in 1265. The Polos brought 100 European priests to Kublai Khan according to the suggestion and they returned to Venice in 1269. In 1271‚ Marco Polo had his first journey when he was 15 years old after his mother’s death. He departed with his father and uncle to China and they
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The sun was so bright it woke me up. The window next to me brought in cool wind. The king died from one of the many rules of the great and deiced Hammurabi. I thought Hammurabi made these rules were made to protect the weak. Now because of that our kind king has died because of his selflessness. Why did he have to leave us so soon? A warm tear escaped my eye and rolled down my cheek. He was trying to protect an innocent widow. The traveler refused to back down and they started to fight. He accidently
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Katie Cafferky Sec. 008 Word Count: 1558 Analysis: "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments" "Save the Planet‚" "Reduce‚ Reuse‚ Recycle‚" "Go Green." Quotes like these have become a commonality in today’s age. We all are familiar with the large efforts to help preserve the environment. In "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments‚" Thomas E. Hill Jr. sums up his essay by stating‚ "The point is not to insinuate that all anti-environmentalists
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Gothic Historical Context According to some authors rebuilding of Abbey Church of Saint Denis is considered beginning of gothic style in 1140. Since then‚ the Gothic style spread through Western Europe. The Gothic art‚ is a typically bourgeois and citizen art‚ which marks the end of feudalism and the renewal of the urban world and the world of trade and craft workshops. At the beginning‚ in France‚ it had specific characteristic too different to Romanesque. Such as: church were considered place where
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ANCIENT HISTORY: SPARTA HISTORICAL SOURCES. Geographical Setting: Written Sources: “whose fertility is greater than words can express” (Strabo) Archaeological Sources: They had access to marble‚ iron and bronze‚ this can be seen in the votive offerings left at the temple of Artemis Orthia that are made out of these items. They could hunt animals‚ this is supported by a depiction of Spartiates hunting a boar on Lakonian pottery. Social Structure and political organisation: Written sources:
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English literature Shakespeare; according to him it was important to kill Julius Caesar because he was destroying the Republic. Many people argue that killing of Julius Caesar wasn’t necessary it was rather a mistake. So‚ was Roman republic worth preserving? And Whether Caesar actually destroyed it? The strongest factor of the Roman republic was its balance‚ according to a famous Greek historian
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fan of our little‚ mundane humanity. Due to this bliss‚ life was going on as normal which meant all of the fabulous Funroe‚ Louisiana attractions were still open‚ including the Gun’s R us shooting range‚ Skate World and the widely covenanted Funroe Monument Zoo. Of all the people enjoying the people oblivious to the impending doom‚ there was one man who knew something absolutely terrible was going to happen because his day was already absolutely awful and those things tend to escalate. Marcus Oliver
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students will be able to identify two interesting facts about their historical figure with 90% accuracy. The second objective will be the students will be able to answer at least two of their classmates’ questions about their historical figure with
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Preserving Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park Introduction to Life Science (Axia) SCI/230 The threat to Manovo-Gounda St floris National Park is overwhelming and should be of great concern. Manovo-Gounda St floris National Park was designated as a World heritage Park because of its unique natural formations and its endangered species. For this reason special attention should be made to help save and preserve the forest and the wild life that resides on the
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Book on BELOVED by Toni Morrison © 2007 English Department‚ Millikin University‚ Decatur‚ IL http://www.millikin.edu/english/beloved/Baynar-historical-essay1.html Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Institutionalized Trauma‚ Selfhood‚ and Familial and Communal Structure by Klay Baynar Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved is‚ in fact‚ a historical novel. It is based on a documented event involving fugitive slave‚ Margaret Garner‚ who was arrested for killing one of her children rather than
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