The Black Plague was an epidemic that swept across Europe in the fourteenth century. Symptoms include boils‚ fever‚ chills‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ and‚ in many cases‚ death. Scientists now know that it is spread by a bacterium called Yersina pestisthrough bites from infected fleas or rats. Between 1347 and 1352‚ about twenty five million people died from the Black Death. If an outbreak were to occur in Western Massachusetts in modern times‚ people would react differently than residents of medieval
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encouraged and influenced the spread of the Muslim faith to his people and beyond the borders of Africa. A well-traveled Moroccan explorer named Ibn Battuta wrote a personal document about his visit to Mali in 1326‚ titled the “Country of the Blacks.” Battuta’s review on the Malian people were mixed. Battuta stated the Malians adhered to the main principles of the Quran‚ but revised certain practices that best suited the Malian’s way of life. Battuta found the Malian practices to be odd and discussed
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1. What were the ’disasters’ that Europe suffered during the fourteenth century‚ and what were their consequences? (Short Answer). There were many disasters during the fourteenth century for instance‚ The Black Death and the revolts and repression‚ The Hundred Years War‚ The Babylonian Captivity‚ and The Great Schism all of which lead to many consequences. The Black Death was a horrible plague that hit Europe in the 1200 to 1600 time frame‚ wiping out about a third of its population. The disease
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The following chapter summaries are mostly based on the McConnell & Brue text “Economics- 16th Ed.” Details available at http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072819359/information_center_view0/ note .. arrow means “leads to‚” “results in‚” “causes” Chapter 1 – The Nature and Method of Economics Economics is the study of scarcity and choice Key concept- opportunity cost: for a person to get more of one thing... he/she must forego getting something else e.g. to get food must
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Ibn Khaldun was one of the famous scientists in sociology. His name is Abd Arrahman Mohammed Khaldun Alhadrami. He was born in 1332 in Tunisia. He found the modern sociology. Also‚ he is one of the scientists of history and economy. Moreover‚ his religion is Islam‚ and he memorized the Holy Quran when he was a child. His father had important positions in religious and political in Al-Andalus also known Muslim Spain‚ and his family lived there. After that‚ they moved to Tunisia. However‚ Ibn Khaldun
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15th century. The United Kingdom was one of the superpowers during this period; it had the most colonies in Africa and America. “The Book of Negroes” is a novel which talks about an African girl‚ Aminata‚ who is captured by the toubab when she is eleven years old and her experiences in different places among America‚ Canada and British. This book is a fictional novel‚ but there are also many facts that are similar
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for religious symbolism Ibn Tufayl is the writer of a philosophical novel called Havy Ibn Yaqzan. The fundamental point of the story is that scientific knowledge‚ which leads to the highest form of human knowledge‚ can be achieved by human reason. This human reason is unaided neither by society’s conventions nor by religion. There is no ambiguity that religion‚ in the context of the story‚ is viewed as a means created by man in an attempt to convey the truth. Ibn Tufayl intends to distinguish
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existence one of its main objectives was to improve economic efficiency. It involves complete mental revolution of workers towards their duty‚ work‚ fellowmen and employees. In all it was a good idea in history of management. Since its existence various books and articles had been published on scientific management which workers familiar to it. The purpose of this research paper is to reveal and discuss various aspects of scientific management‚ its principles and its application in today’s work environment
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‘Ibn Sina’s renown brought him the title ‘the leading eminent scholar’ (al-Shayk al Ra’is). Discuss the significance of his philosophical ideas with special focus on his distinction between his essence and existence‚ and its role in his proof for God as the necessary existent.’ Ibn Sina‚ or Avicenna‚ born 980 AD‚ was a leading polymath of many subjects; many of his theories are still renowned today; 240 of (approximately) 450 works can authentically be attributed to him‚ contributing to mainly medicine
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The Time Machine" is primarily a social critique of H.G. Wells’s Victorian England projected into the distant future. Wells was a Socialist for most of his life with Communist leanings‚ and he argued in both his novels and non-fiction works that capitalism was one of the great ills of modern society. The most obvious theme you could explore when writing your essay is that of a continuing class struggle‚ even 800‚000 years in the future. As the Time Traveller overlooks the future Earth he notices
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