Minangkabau (Fundamental of culture‚ religion‚ belief and tradition) The Minangkabau ethnic group‚ also known as Minang (Urang minang in Minangkabau language)‚ is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra‚ in Indonesia. Their culture is matrilineal‚ with property and land passing down from mother to daughter‚ while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men (although some women also play important roles in these areas). Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra‚ while about
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including ancient Babylon‚ Ancient Egypt‚ pre-Classical Greece‚ and pre17th century China. This view contrasts with the realization first recorded around the 4th century BC by natural philosophers of Classical Greece and later proved by brave seafarers‚ that Earth is spherical. Many Americans still believe the myth that it wasn’t until Columbus sailed to the New World that Europeans knew Earth was round‚ but even in medieval Europe‚ it was already too late to write an "even-handed" Time magazine-style
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Chapter 12 Notes Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era p 267 * Splinter states fought for the control of China in the centuries after the fall of the Han * Yang Jian was a member of a prominent northern Chinese noble family that had been active in these contests * Yang Jian struck a marriage alliance with his daughter and the ruler of the northern Zhou empire * The Zhou monarch had recently defeated several rivals‚ which united much of northern China * Yang Jian
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Lamu and Zanzibar‚ two ancient towns on the coast of East Africa Historical Perspectives of East Africa Assignment Lecturer: Mr Bagaja Student Number: TTM-08-13 Student Name : Mutunga Katia Date Submitted: 23/ 10/ 2010 Lamu “The oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa “ World Heritage Site List Background The island of Lamu is situated on the north coast of Kenya. Lamu town is the largest town on Lamu Island‚ which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya
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THE POSSIBILITY OF ETHNOGENESIS OF THE BADJAO IN BARANGAY TAMBACAN‚ ILIGAN CITY Artchil C. Daug‚ Christopher O. Kimilat ‚ Glory Grace Ann G. Bayon & Angenel Clariz D. Rufon Department of History Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology ABSTRACT The Badjao‚ who are considered part of the thirteen Moro ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao specifically in the Sulu Archipelago area‚ are also found in Barangay Tambacan in Iligan City in Northern Mindanao. For centuries‚ they have
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contact and trading for almost a century‚ and in the decades leading up to the arrival of the Mayflower‚ relations between visitors and inhabitants had grown increasingly tense. Sometimes the discord flared into violence‚ and several times English seafarers kidnapped Indians to sell into slavery or to exhibit to the curious back home. It was the Nausets’ Pokanoket cousins on the mainland who suffered the most. An epidemic of European origin had‚ in only three years‚ almost destroyed a thriving
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Mops The Scandinavion world ond Europe in the eorly Viking Age I Scandinavia in the Viking Age 63 2 Scandinavian settlement in Eneland 83 The making of modern Europe was a slow and laborious business which the historian simplifies at peril. Modern conceptions of national growth and of national types are too easiiy applied to situations in the past where they are distorting‚ anachronistic and positively misleading. To be obsessed with the image of peaceful and peaceJoving Scandinavian farmers
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A Review of the Literature Earnestean Williams COUNS 504 Dr. Thomas‚ Jimletta Vareene May 14‚ 2010 Abstract The paper discusses Philippine and Filipino brief history of the life and times of the Filipino people in the Philippines. The values of Filipino culture have changed through emigration and immigration‚ as well as religiosity and spirituality‚ and because of coexisting and sometimes conflicting values . Details are given outlining the global Filipino diaspora in the 21st-century
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INTRODUCTION The foreign exchange market is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock‚ with the exception of weekends. The foreign exchange market determines the relative values of different currencies. (wiki.org) The exchange rate is the price of a unit of foreign currency in terms of the domestic currency
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Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires And Eurasian Integration People: 1. Abbasids: Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty {750-1258 CE} that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid. 2. Chinggis Khan: Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3
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