respect for its hierarchy and had very good treatment to its merchant class considering it greatly helped the economy. Around the middle‚ there were new trade routes; rise and decline of empires‚ and new places were involved. A new trade route‚ the Silk Road traveled to and from India‚ Africa‚ and Western Europe. Because of the help the economy of Europe had from all this trade‚ it was once again stabilized as it had been reaching the decline of the Roman Empire. In contrast‚ the Islamic Empire rose
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depending on the reader. Frost shows duality through nature‚ relationships‚ and choices. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Frost mentions taking the road less traveled. The road less traveled is not mainstream like all the others. Taking this road will give a different story to tell. Going another way is unique and shows that there is more than one way to go. Possibly regretful of taking the road less traveled‚ Frost states “Then took the other‚ as just as fair‚ / and having perhaps the better claim
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Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is a moving story of a father and a son in a post apocalypse world. They are constantly struggling to get food‚ shelter‚ and safety. Unfortunately the people of this world have turned against their own kind and have had to revert to cannibalism to survive. There are many important themes presented in this novel‚ but the two I would like to focus on are death and parental love. These two themes are present throughout the entire novel‚ and they help characterize and
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AP WORLD HISTORY SEMESTER EXAM TEST REVIEW Structure: The exam will consist of 40 multiple choice questions (20 questions on Unit 3‚ 15 questions on Unit 2‚ and 5 questions on Unit 1) and 2 free response essay questions (1 Comparative FRQ and 1 CCOT FRQ). The MCQ section will count for 50% of the grade and the FRQ section will count for 50%. The exam will be two hours. You have 35 minutes for the MCQ section and 85 minutes for the two FRQ questions. The test will cover content from class and from
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explain how you would develop your argument for this interpretation. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem with an obvious literal meaning. A man comes to a fork in the road and has to make a decision on which way to go to continue his journey. After a lot of thought‚ the traveler chooses the road “less traveled by.” I interpreted this to mean that he took the more complex path or journey and avoided the simpler road. My thesis sentence for this poem would be “ In life all people are faced
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Jenny L. Mrs. Johnson AP English 4 February 22‚ 2014 The Road by Cormac McCarthy Research Paper Imagine a world where the skies are grey and the ground is torn to pieces. Where there is no civilization present‚ nor another human being to be seen. Where the feeling of hunger influences you to consider the idea of human flesh filling your insides and persuading you to do so. A world infested with murder‚ crime‚ and despair—which have now become necessary for survival. Imagine the air thick with
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controlled China and Russia economically had both differences and similarities. One difference of how the Mongols treated China instead of Russia economically was that with China the Mongols had direct rule and wanted to have all control of the Silk Road. Unlike Russia‚ the Mongols had indirect control over them. In which then‚ it made China’s class later to be seen that there was poverty everywhere. The Chinese saw this Mongol rule cruel and unacceptable because it led China to a devastating point
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thoroughly involved in technological advances that all went into their economical lives. Both Africa and China traded rare products‚ which had very high demand throughout the rest of the world. China specialized in porcelain and silk. They traded these through the Silk Road and mainly traded with Southeast Asia. Africa on the other hand traded mainly salt and gold. Most importantly‚ they started the trading of slaves. They used the Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trade routes mostly. Both were fairly
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China had once saw itself as almighty‚ but in times of devastating rebellions and foreign pressure‚ they had to ask for help from a Turkish tribe named the Uighurs. A major change involving religion was the spread of Buddhism from India through the silk roads into China. Buddhism was a new faith of hope and order for the Chinese. The emergence of Buddhism led to social changes. Buddhism became a syncretic faith with Confucianism and Daoism. Argument over Buddhism’s importance led to these changes. Buddhism
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to an increase in sea trade. “Unlike the Atlantic‚ the Indian Ocean had long served to connect rather than divide‚ facilitating trade among East Africa‚ the Persian Gulf‚ Indian‚ Southeast Asia‚ and China along maritime routes complementing the Silk Road that had long bridged eastern and western Eurasia by land” (Hansen and Curtis 471). The Dutch and the Portuguese stepped in‚ and intruded on the Indian Ocean. The goal of the Portuguese was to build new networks of trade and create a big empire‚
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