A. Existing trade routes including the Silk Roads‚ the Mediterranean Sea‚ the transSaharan and the Indian Ocean basins flourished and promoted the growth of powerful new trading cities. (such as—to mention just a few— Novgorod‚ Timbuktu‚ the Swahili citystates‚ Hangzhou‚ Calicut‚ Baghdad‚ Melaka‚ Venice‚ and‚ in the Americas‚ Tenochtitlan or Cahokia) Hannah Shapiro and Eliza Antonowich Prior knowledge As new trade routes developed‚ major trading ports and cities were necessary to provide a
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The poem I have chosen is “The Road Not Taken‚” written by Robert Frost. The reason I chose this poem is because I believe this poem has stood out from the others. While reading the poem‚ the lyrics drew my attention. It made me realize that this poem is real‚ an everyday thing. “ The Road Not Taken‚” is about a person and how the choice they have made has affected their life. Choices affect you and all your other decisions that you may face later on in life. This made me feel like everything has
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purchase and sale of imported goods‚ and to issue foreign trade permits for local merchants. Chinese goods that flowed north in large quantities included tea‚ silk‚ copper coins‚ paper and printed books etc. The return flow included horses that Song needed desperately for its armies but also other animals and goods that had traveled across the Silk Road. There was also vigorous sea trade with Korea‚ Japan and lands to the southwest. During Song times this maritime trade for the first time exceeded
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that comes up on google is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This poem is about the idea of decision making and deciding which path is the right path to take in life. Robert Frost wrote this poem in the first person which raises the question‚ whether the speaker is the poet himself or a character was created for this poem. The poem has four stanzas and each stanza has five verses. Each verse contains four stressed syllables. The poet uses a metaphor to compare roads to the many decisions in life
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Beatniks were growing in numbers from the 1950s to the 1960s. Beat is a term that we will be analyzing in the forms of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road and Ginsberg’s HOWL. We see the word in use literally and figuratively as a verb or in this case‚ internal conflict from the main and static characters in each novel. Often we will examine instances in each piece that do not have the word beat‚ but is defined by other words such as mad or generation. This is because the word ‘beat’ during the Beat
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terrible struggle for survival. The principle of survival of the fittest would be one of the only things keeping individuals alive; people would have to resort to cannibalism and to killing each other as a food source to increase their longevity. In The Road‚ McCarthy examines the essence of human nature in a post-apocalyptic environment and ventures into the darkest corners of the human subconscious‚ showing that when an individual is forced to live in some of the hardest conditions imaginable‚ it is
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Benjamin Liang Poem Analysis – The Road Not Taken People make choice every second‚ for instance‚ where should I go to lunch‚ KFC or McDonald’s? “The Road Not Taken” is a well-known poem about choice. Though it’s really brief‚ it told us a vital truth; the direction the one take in life will determine one’s future. Thus‚ people have to think about their choice carefully. In addition‚ it simply says that choice is inevitable‚ but you never know what your choice will cause until you have lived it
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from the vast environment and cultural diversities of the region. Long distance trade became very important because if more distance was traveled then merchants could exchange with more cultures‚ and prospered when societies involved in these trade roads offered security for merchants and traders. The uneven distribution of goods and resources of both natural and human activity has long motivated long distance exchange. Natural resources gained many economical value and this motivated merchants to
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them‚ there were peasants‚ artisans and merchants. At the bottom were soldiers and slaves. The Silk Road served as a significant factor of the economic development during the Han Dynasty. It was a series of trade routes that involved connection between the West and China. Merchants travelled along the Silk Road by means of camel caravans to trade their goods. Goods such as silk‚ spices‚ ivory‚ and gems were exported to the West. Meanwhile‚ western goods such as linen‚ wool‚ glass‚ metal
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TANG & SONG 1. How did government affect your dynastic era? Tang Dynasty: The administration was organized into 10 political districts called “Dao” which was then later increased to 15. In each political district there were towns‚ villages‚ and families. The official system of the Tang administration involved the central official system and local official system. The central official system followed the Sui Dynasty’s (581 - 618) three departments and six ministries system. The six major
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