of life. These same immigrants envision their dreams of success‚ freedom and happiness coming true. Without different cultures coming together learning from one another‚ many of today’s modern marvels would not exist. A good example of this is Marco Polo finding the different wonders like Gunpowder and exotic spices from his expeditions. Without the blending and discovers of the great people that came before us our world would not be as it is now especially America. Immigrants brings part of their
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ShaTerrian Brown Mr. Janky English 1301 9/23/2013 My First Trip to Galveston Beach My family has always wanted to take a trip down to Galveston during the torrid summer. It was an exciting feeling to get away from the dry heated bustle of summer living in Dallas. Every summer‚ my family packs up and hits the superhighway to our well awaited family vacation. As we drove through city after city‚ it became apparent that the world around us was changing. As I was peering through the back seat window
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“Holy Land‚” or ________________________. These conflicts brought western Europeans into contact with the Middle East‚ as well as into contact with Arab merchants and ________________________ goods from as far away as India and China. 2. MARCO POLO – A _______________________________ adventurer from Venice‚ Italy that traveled throughout ________________________ in the late 1200’s and wrote about his experiences in his book called Travels. His book would help ______________________ Christopher
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Until the 12th and 13th centuries‚ cross-cultural interactions were unprolonged and less in number when compared to later centuries. However‚ the assimilation of much of the Eurasian landmass into the Mongol empire as well as the later European exploration of the Americas contributed to the creation of prolonged global connections in which the world’s major continents were connected. Two of the most notable developments include the caravel‚ which aided European explorers in their conquest of the
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HEIAN JAPAN SUI (7941185) (581618) TANG ( 618907) SONG (9601279) YUAN (12711368) S at first women had more rights than Chinese women‚ but it slowly declined because marriages were less important than politics. They‚ however‚ weren’t secluded at home and they weren’t required to do foot binding. Bonds began to form through diplomacy. S Highly patriarchal. One and only empress‚ Wu Zhou: was a favorite concubine of the emperor. Women’s femininity
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Distant regions of the world were at first isolated. However‚ these once distant regions slowly became interconnected through a number of factors‚ such as trade‚ urbanization‚ and technology. During the medieval period that spanned roughly from the fifth to the fifteenth century‚ Middle China and the Islamic Caliphate were two renowned civilizations. Middle China was located in eastern Asia and the Islamic Caliphate was located in the Middle East‚ so these civilizations were geographically far. However
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In the history of flight‚ the first lighter-than-air balloon (1783) and the first powered aircraft (1903) are very recent when compared with the age of kites. The exact date and origin of the kite is not known but it is believed that they were flown in China more than two thousand years ago. One legend suggests that when a Chinese farmer tied a string to his hat to keep it from blowing away in a strong wind‚ the first kite was born. The earliest written account of kite flying was about 200 B.C
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When I think of term rock and roll‚ I remember watching MTV and seeing Axel Rose scream into the microphone with his whinny voice the lyrics of “Paradise City” while dancing across the stage in his ridiculous outfits. My father would nostalgically reminisce of the epic guitar solos of the Eagles‚ Don Felder. My father being a teenager during the height of the rock music era afforded him certain opportunities to see the big hair bands perform live during their prime. When I was still a boy‚ he would
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Everyone knows about Pearl Harbor. But we never look at the Japanese point of view. Japan had many reasons to attack America. In the 1920’s Japan’s population boomed. They had so many babies‚ the limited resources of food and oil in Japan couldn’t meet everyone’s needs. Militarists in Japan saw an opportunity to get more resources. The oil-rich parts of China caught their hopeful eyes. The militarists proposed to the imperial government taking that part of China. But‚ the civil government turned
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During 1200s‚ the eastern hemisphere of the world witnessed the rise of the Mongol empire. The Mongols‚ who had been previously living in the Steppes mountains and divided into multiple different tribes were united by Genghis Khan into one nation. With their increased numbers‚ the Mongols conquered all the land from China to Eastern Europe‚ creating the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever had. The Mongols were civilized because of their military structures‚ and their
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