Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome‚ it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world[1] with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world’s population[2][3][4]) and covering 6.5 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq mi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.[5][6][7] In its approximately
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John Milton From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet‚ polemicist‚ a scholarly man of letters‚ and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval‚ and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. Milton ’s poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions‚ a passion for freedom and self-determination‚ and the urgent issues and political turbulence
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Social scientists have studied it‚ lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math‚ science and engineering fields. Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal‚ academic‚ corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains‚ and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible. The
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Roman civilization and Zhou-Han China (same time period): 1. A Roman City in Ancient China -Roman empire ppl immigrated to China‚ Turkestan (convincing?)‚ pp. 1 -Roman: never succeeded in subduing (conquer) the Silk Road army? -Military: Roman VS Parthians‚ pp. 3 -Military glory: the most wanted of Romans 2. The Roman way -Roman: a true comedy of manners‚ pp. 13 -Roman’s literature influenced by Greece -Roman’s literature appeared during 3rd century A.D.‚ after the First Punic War‚
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“The mayor directed building of a one-person and two-person reed boat‚ which apparently was nigh unsinkable and rode the waves elegantly. Having arrived at this point‚ it was probably not too much of a stretch to lash multiple boats together to get a much larger boat. The bulrush reed they used for building these boats was the totoro‚ a fresh-water reed found at Lake Titicaca‚ Peru‚ and which the Easter Islanders planted down in the marshy recesses of their extinct volcanoes.” So although there
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Chapter 1 Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East 1) The earliest prehuman species thus far discovered is called A) Homo sapiens. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo habilis. D) Neanderthal man. E) Homo erectus. Answer: B Page Ref: 4 2) The first use of fire is attributed to A) Homo habilis. B) Cro-Magnon man. C) Neanderthal man. D) Australopithecus. E) Homo erectus. Answer: E Page Ref: 4 3) Neanderthal man lived primarily in A) North America. B) Europe. C) Arabia D)
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1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSE STYLE English writers of the sixteenth century were self-consciously puzzled about the state of their language. They knew that it had changed markedly in the past two centuries‚ but they were not sure whether too rapid a change was good. They were aware also that its vocabulary was being influenced by other modern languages‚ especially French and Italian. They wondered whether it should be more like Latin‚ the international language of learning‚ or whether it should
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Freedom of speech For the freedom of speech in specific jurisdictions‚ see Freedom of speech by country. "Freedom of expression" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Freedom of expression (disambiguation). For other uses‚ see Freedom of speech (disambiguation). Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously‚ but includes any act of seeking‚ receiving and imparting information or ideas‚ regardless
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Mr. Dunbar AP European History Chapter 17—The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Thought Chapter Overview: The Enlightenment is a movement of people and ideas that fostered the expansion of literate sectors of European society and that economic improvement and political reform were both possible and desirable. Contemporary western political and economic thought is a product of Enlightenment thinking; therefore‚ some historians believe the process of Enlightenment continues today. Inspired
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PLEASE don’t steal! I worked on this really hard! And it can get you in trouble!! Pompeii Documentary -- 3/3/14 Why is Pompeii so important? It’s a destroyed city of people who died‚ and we can only tell how they felt in the people’s last moments of their lives. They were frozen in the last seconds of their lives. Everything there can tell us every detail of what happened when the town swarmed with life. Earthquakes. A massive eruption. Hail of pumice and ash. Technology today
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