Event Date Description Radisson and des Groseilliers are voyagers from France who travelled to north of Lake Superior to begin a fur trading 1659 They went to Montreal and travelled to Lake Superior to begin a trade business with the Cree and Ojibwa people The world’s oldest operating trading company is created on May 2nd‚1670 by the Royal Charter 1670 King Charles II issues a Charter HBC to give them monopoly over all trade in the area. In return HBC pays the King two elk and two black beaver
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be brothers and kin to the best families ….‚” (Plutarch‚ Lycurgus 15.6)..... “This is why [Spartan] women washed infants not in water but in wine‚ in order to test their strength. For it is said that undiluted wine causes convulsions in babies who are epileptic or weak‚ and that healthy babies are tempered by it and their frames strengthened‚” ((Plutarch‚ Lycurgus 16.1). Based off both of Lycurgus’ statements‚ another married man if given permission could sleep with another married women in order
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Ancient Greece The ancient Greek myths have gone down in history as some of the most popular religious beliefs. This strong belief in religion unified Greece‚ making it and strong and prosperous nation. Ancient Greece can be traced back to the early stone ages. It has been divided up into different time periods. Each period signifies special events and important advancements‚ which provided the basis for how we live today. Greece was not always one united country‚ Instead it was made up of
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such as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman here in America. Our marketing strategy will not be much different for Greece. Kiehl has constantly advertised their products in this manner; exclusivity has always been a huge part of their brand identity. We feel that there is no need to totally reinvent the wheel when marketing these products in Greece. Pricing range for Kiehl’s products for Greece will be 5.32 Euros for a 2.5 fl oz bottle of face wash and to 43.25 Euros for a 1.4 fl oz jar of moisturizing
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In ancient Greece‚ most jobs were done by slaves instead of free people. This was because the Greeks had no money to pay workers with (until the Archaic period)‚ and because they had no clocks (to measure how long somebody had worked). But it was also because it is cheaper to force people to work for you than it is to pay them. Most people who were slaves in Greece had been born free. They were sold into slavery by their parents when they were children‚ because their parents were too poor to take
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Pearson Persson 1 Mrs. Matone English 9-H 4 March 2013 In The Odyssey‚ Homer suggests that xenia is a very important feature of ancient Greece. Xenia is a kind of code of moral conduct for hospitality. For example‚ In The Odyssey there are times when reciprocation is given when traveling. Furthermore‚ the Greek people show xenia because Zeus demands hospitality from humans. Lastly there
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Greece is a country in southeastern Europe. It is the originator of western philosophy literature‚ mathematics‚ history‚ drama‚ the Olympic Games‚ and democracy. In addition‚ the Latin alphabet is from Greece as well. Greece has assisted with the development other countries and today’s social order. In eight-hundred B.C.‚ city-states began to form in Greece. The lushest and utmost dominant city-state was the city of Athens. Athens is mostly remembered for the talents and education. Boys went to
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Ancient Greece is considered to have made some of the most influential art ever‚ their architecture being one of the utmost successful forms. Much of the Greeks’ art was meant to honor their gods‚ however‚ they were created in the same image of humans. The government sponsored a majority of the art in Greece and intended it to be for public display. The Greeks were always trying to reach excellence‚ which they found in art and took a great deal of pride in it. The architecture in Greece was very
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As victors‚ the Spartans found themselves dominant in a Greece where polis was suspicious of polis and where‚ within each polis‚ faction disputed with faction. From Ionia‚ which the Spartans sold back to Persia as the price of their assistance‚ the Persians loomed once more as a threat to the whole Greek world. The new Macedonia in the north menaced the Greeks. Perhaps wiser or more vigorous leaders would have been able to create some sort of federation among the individual poleis that could have
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DBQ The ancient societies of Greece and China each produced a civilization remarkable for its time. Although these civilizations emerged nearly one thousand years apart‚ their philosophies were completely different‚ had various forms of governance‚ and had unique economic classes. First‚ the thoughts of the numerous Greek philosophers were absolutely different from those of the Chinese philosophers. Chinese philosophers believed that the individual was not as important as the kingdom was as a
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