Thailand The earliest inhabitants of what is now Thailand were hunter-gatherers. However about 4‚000 BC they began farming. They grew rice. At first the farmers used stone tools but about 3‚000 BC bronze was discovered. From about 500 BC the people of what is now Thailand used iron. At first what is now Thailand was divided into small states called Meuang. By 100 AD they were practicing Theravada Buddhism. However the ancestors of modern Thais are believed to have come from southern China. They
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Richard Neiper Grand Master Gerry Cook 2nd Degree Black Belt Paper June 3‚ 2013 History of Taekwondo Taekwondo is an empty-hand combat form that entails the use of the entire body. Tae means "to Kick" or "Smash with the feet‚" Kwon implies "punching" or "destroying with the hand or fist‚" and Do means "way" or "method." Taekwondo thus‚ is the technique of unarmed combat for self defense that involves the skillful application of techniques that include punching‚ kicks‚ blocks‚ dodges‚ parrying
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Caribbean History Identured Labour Portuguese (Madeirans and Maltese) Group Members: Robinette Hemely Tehri-ann Brown Chamoya Cameron Joenel Bent Kimberly Graham Latifa Poorman Tamara Gooden Tamoy Gayle Teacher: Mrs.Wolfe Form: 5m Destination Where they came? Most Madeirans came to the the British Guyana to work on a plantation in Demarara. Madeirans in Guyana * In 1834 the fisrt 40 Madeirans came
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300 total pages in score. For a complete listing of Mozart ’s dances‚ see this list. [edit]History Mozart began writing dances when he was five years old; see Nannerl Notenbuch. In 1768‚ when Mozart was 12‚ his father Leopold reported that Wolfgang had composed "many minuets for all types of instrument".[1] Mozart continued to write dance music for various occasions during the Salzburg period of his life (up to 1781).[2] Following his move to Vienna‚ the pace of dance music composition increased
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symmetry of the number eleven‚ the Great War‚ as it was then called‚ came to an end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The conclusion of World War One marks‚ quite logically‚ one ’bookend’ for both Canadian and world history. Two very different decades would follow. "The Roaring Twenties" were marked by unprecedented but unequally distributed prosperity. "The Dirty Thirties" witnessed untold suffering and hardship as the Great Depression left millions unemployed‚ destitute
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“History‚ despite its wrenching pain‚ cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage‚ need not be lived again.” So wrote the American author Maya Angelou. A fellow writer‚ James Baldwin also noted: “Not everything that is faced can be changed‚ but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” These were both reminders that we need to know our history in order to understand perhaps where we are today and how we came to be where we are; that we need to understand reality and to face it in order to progress
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because they do not support the "disinterested investigation" required of the discipline of history.[8][9] Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory. Herodotus‚ a 5th-century B.C. Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused Herodotus and
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Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter‚ architect‚ writer and historian‚ most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters‚ Sculptors‚ and Architects‚ considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. As the first Italian art historian‚ he initiated the genre of an encyclopedia of artistic biographies that continues today. Vasari was the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print‚ though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had
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Grossmont College American History 108 Section FALL 2012 Select any four of the ten questions of your choice. Make ensure that you answer all parts of the question. Each answer should be at a minimum two to three pages in length and doubled spaced. You can use any sources to develop your answers to include the internet. You do not have to cite the sources. 1. What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration‚ conquest‚ and colonization of the New World? What was the impact
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When looking at today’s society‚ one must wonder if our society and politics are similar to another time point in the United States history. Between 1865 and the 1920’s‚ two extremely important time periods occurred in the United States of America. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era vastly impacted the United States as well as influenced politics and culture still around today. However‚ one of these time periods was more influential than the other. The Gilded Age occurred from 1865-1900. This
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