Christopher Columbus Brian Haller ID# 4129259 HIST101 Professor Peter Cash 23 July 2010 Christopher Columbus was an explorer‚ navigator and colonizer from Genoa‚ Italy. His voyages across the Atlantic led to the
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The modern cruise industry offers an option for everyone‚ exceeding the expectations of its customers‚ with an also growing number of companies specializized in offering more choices and alternatives‚ including smaller cruise ships‚ yachts and sailing vessels that carry out from ten-thirty to a few hundred passengers to exotic and‚ sometimes‚ remote destinations and regulated ports‚ prohibited to larger liners because of the concerns about what the influx of thousands of travelers would have on
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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns during the times of Medieval England against the Muslims of the Middle East. They began in the time range from 1095 until around 1270‚ there were eight crusades all together and there were two children crusades which were both in 1212 (Trueman). The Crusades began‚ when armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to Pope Urban II’s plea to go to war against Muslim forces (Madden‚ Crusaders and Historians). The pope asked the warriors of Europe
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Looking back over the millennium now ending‚ one question in particular stands out: how did the inhabitants of Western Europe‚ a backwater in the year 1000AD‚ manage to gain economic and military dominance over much of the globe? Not so long ago‚ the answers to this question seemed obvious: Europeans were racially superior‚ and besides‚ God wanted them to win. As historians have shed race-driven and providential views of human history‚ new explanations have had to be formulated. Some of these new
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that came out of the first three crusades is that the men found an escape for their violent behavior and "more importantly‚ they stimulated Western trade with the East‚ as Venetian‚ Pisan‚ and Genoan merchants followed the Crusaders across Byzantium to lucrative new markets" (text p. 408). The fourth Crusade "is a commentary on both the degeneration of the original
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The Jews were persecuted and slaughtered in the first crusade due to the religious rationale that the Crusaders were able to justify. The Jews were perceived as the murderers of Christ‚ low their involvement as bankers‚ and infidels for settling in with the Seldjuk culture. These major “vices” qualified the Jews to be slaughtered by the Crusaders through the Just War written St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine of Hippo’s work on the Just War was a vastly important document in the rationalization
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Rather than part of an elitist agenda‚ the modern use of Latin is a reflection of pride and centuries of tradition. Whether used in a court of law or for other academic or scientific purposes‚ Latin remains useful. It allows for the legal language to be richer and more flexible and continues to play many roles in the legal system. Similarly‚ in scientific fields‚ Latin provides a precise and concise way of sorting the genus and species of living organism‚ with permanence. Although Latin is considered
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early life‚ Christopher Columbus worked with his dad‚ but eventually when he was a teenager he began to work for a sea merchant and remained at sea until 1476‚ during this time he studied maps and books which convinced him that he could reach land by sailing westward across the ocean. In 1476 he was shipwrecked but managed to float to shore. After being shipwrecked‚ Columbus made his way to Lisbon where his brother‚ who was an expert chart maker‚ lived. Columbus too became a chart maker for a small period
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and enduring one - personally‚ it has been anything but smooth sailing. But‚ to be resilient‚ is to not only bounce back after you have been knocked down but to learn from the mistakes that impeded you the first time. It is I believe that one of the characteristics that defines successful medical students is resilience. The journey to medical school is a challenging and enduring one – personally‚ it has been anything but smooth sailing. But‚ to be resilient‚ is to bounce back after you have been knocked
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combination of good quality and low prices helped by the falling dollar. "We hold first place in Europe in the production of sailing yachts six to nine metres long‚" claims Marek Slodownik‚ an official in the Polish Chamber of Boating Industry. Slodownik says that yachts hold sixth place on the list of exported industrial products‚ with more than 95% of the sailing and motor yachts made in Poland now going for export‚ chiefly to Germany‚ the UK‚ France and Norway. "Sales of yachts grew by 12%
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