Empire was divided up by France and Britain with the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) where Iraq‚ Turkey‚ and Syria retained the remaining pieces (Broadway‚ Hamil‚ 2006). The Kurds have remained minorities in these countries ever since. They are mostly a pastoral society but newly created borders have forced them to shift the traditional ways to a more permanent establishments to include urban areas (Kurds‚ 2005). Conflicts of the past (like the 1991 Gulf War) and present have also forced numbers of Kurds
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Micayla Starnes AP World History 21 Aug 2014 APWH Summer Assignment 2014 Chapter 1 1. The key factor that provoked civilizations to develop was agriculture. Once discovered‚ agriculture allowed humans to settle in one place for a long period of time and become less migrant‚ therefore creating bigger cities. Some of the key characteristics that were critical for civilizations to develop were advanced cities‚ specialized workers‚ complex institutions‚ record keeping and advanced technologies. Agriculture
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Foundations 14% of the AP Exam Climate Climate has been a major factor in determining where people settled. Peopled settled in areas that has climates that would accommodate agriculture and livestock. Time Periods • The Paleolithic Age refers to about 12‚000 BC. During this time people were nomadic. • The Neolithic Age refers to the age from about 12‚000 BC to about 8000 BC. It is during this time that people settled in communities and civilization began to emerge. • River Valley Civilizations
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is seen as an instrument for transforming nomads into settled farmers‚ modernized livestock producers and ‘loyal’ citizens. I think it may diminish the poverty problem among nomads and increase their productivity with improving their quality and standard of life‚ is a selfish and ideal thought because they assume most of the nomads will join the educational program and change their lifestyle after graduation‚ but what if the students still want to be a nomad as a lifelong occupation? The whole educational
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Spread of Islam Andrew Lowery HIS 275/CA September18‚ 2014 Kerrin Conroy Spread of Islam Islam is not only one of the three major monotheistic religions in the world today‚ it is also it is the fastest growing. Additionally‚ political conflict between Islamic groups and the West play out on the international stage like the latest of the Crusades. The message of the Prophet Mohammad has been distorted and misunderstood by those outside of Islam who see only a religion of hatred. Islam did‚ however
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equality‚ and personal freedom. I. The Shape of Human Communities C. Pastoral Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa 1. Timur/Tamerlame (d. 1405): This was the last great Central Asian leader of warrior nomads. His armies attacked and plundered parts of Russia‚ Persia‚ and India‚ but he died before invading China. His descendants maintained control of an important central asian region. Yet in the coming centuries‚ most of the Turkic nomads
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here? The time of the Nomads was in the Stone Age which was in the year 3500 B.C.. The Nomads were hunters and gatherers. They made their tools and weapons for hunting from stones and sticks‚ by attaching sharp rocks to the end of sticks to make a club or an ax. Some animals that they hunted were wolves and mammoths. The gatherers collected berries‚ nuts‚ and roots to eat. The Nomads joined together to form a clan so they could have a better chance of surviving. The Nomads had no permanent home because
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annual growth rate 1970 - 1990: 3.1% Ethnic groups: 85% Somali‚ 15% non-Somali (Bantu & Arabs) Religion: 99.9% Sunni Muslim Languages: Somali (official)‚ Arabic‚ Italian‚ English Work force (3.7 million; very few are skilled workers): Pastoral nomad—60%. Agriculture‚ government‚ trading‚ fishing‚ industry‚ handicrafts‚ and other—40% Currency: Somali Shilling & US dollar 5/30/2008 * Source: 2005 World Population Data Sheet – Population Reference Bureau Somali Diaspora 5/30/2008
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How would the world react when one of the greatest empires in history fell? At the Roman Empire’s height of power‚ the empire was bigger than modern day India‚ and its influence was felt throughout the world. By 180 CE‚ the empire surrounded the Mediterranean Sea and controlled most of Europe‚ as well as parts of North Africa and the Middle East. However‚ as numerous empires before them‚ the Romans also collapsed and left the world in a problematic state. The greatest evidence of the lasting impacts
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UNIT I: FOUNDATIONS (8000 BCE TO 600 CE) Of all the time periods covered in the AP World History curriculum‚ Foundations (8000 BCE - 600 CE) spans the largest number of years. It begins with an important Marker Event - the Neolithic Revolution - and ends after the fall of three major classical civilizations - Rome in the Mediterranean region‚ Han China‚ and the Gupta Empire of India. Broad topics addressed in the Foundations time period are: Environmental and periodization issues Early development
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