1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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at Austin‚ Admiral William H. McRaven delivered his commencement speech to the class of 2014 in which he discloses the secrets of not only how to succeed in life‚ but also to make the world a better place. An alumni of the college himself‚ he begins by reminiscing his own graduation and empathizes with the soon-to-be graduates‚ figuratively coming down from his high military position to demonstrate that even he‚ a high ranked official‚ a revered American hero‚ is just like them. He fondly and comically
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Final Exam Review Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs By Cathy A. Small Study Guide Chapter one: 1. The impact is that people who migrate bring money back to the village. Along with the money they also bring new cultural ideas and myths about the places they’ve traveled. 2. Tapa making is very important for the women of Tonga‚ they have a group that meets for 14 weeks to make one cloth for one woman. Most people also farm with
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The Mutiny The start of the voyage was on September 20‚ 1519. Magellan and a crew of approximately 300 men parted from their families‚ getting ready to face the most turbulent experience ever. They faced a storm as they reached the equator in a country called Sierra Leone. To make everything worse‚ Magellan found out that 3 of the Spanish Captains were planning to kill him and King Manuel sent ships to sabotage their voyage. To avoid the ships from Portugal‚ Magellan ordered the captains to sail
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risks? This is the question that Eustace had to answer in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. After the Dawn Treader departs from the Lone Islands and lands on another island‚ the crew of the Dawn Treader gets to work‚ repairing‚ refilling‚ and washing the various items on board. Eustace decides to shirk his share of the work and take a walk. Not knowing his way around Narnia‚ he gets lost and stumbles into a valley. While in the valley‚ he discovers a dying dragon and finds a cave full of the dragon’s
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Stories From a Ming Collection is a book compiled by Fang Menglong and translated by Cyril Birch‚ of a collection of popular moral tales of oral tradition that were told by Chinese storytellers during the T’ang Dynasty in the Chinese marketplaces. The two tales that will be analyzed specifically come from The Lady who was a Beggar‚ both centering on important moral lessons involving the issues of love‚ lust‚ reputation and honor; issues that were very important of Chinese society during that time
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This section analyses the infrequent use‚ or rather the absence‚ of Irish in the cosmopolitan Dublin in Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom. First‚ up until the nineteenth century‚ the Irish language was frequently spoken in the island; however‚ it was only used in informal conversations. (see McDermott 26) Then‚ Irish slowly perished among Ireland and McDermott (26) notes that “Irish […] was no longer a language of political‚ social or economic power…”. The reason that the Irish population preferred English is
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Voyage to the Lungs Trevor Frederick HS 130 Unit #4 – Assignment Kaplan University February 26‚ 2013 Welcome aboard! So glad you are all able to witness this extraordinary endeavor into the amazing human body. What you are about to witness is a feat seldom seen by the average individual. Frantic reports coming in are alarming; a foreign bacterium has invaded the right lung of our subject and is currently causing some severe damage. Shrunken to a mere eight microns in length‚ our state-of-the-art
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The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China and ruled over the western oceans with an iron fist. Therefore‚ this dynasty had political interests of the Indian ocean’s people‚ mostly wanting to have alliances with them and in expanding their trade routes. Consequentially‚ this dynasty only gave the people of the western sea two choices‚ either you prove your loyalty to join the alliance‚ the region will have good fortune and will live long to enjoy everlasting peace or two if your hearts conceal
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Song and Ming Dynasties of Ancient China showed similar periods of decline. The two Dynasties increased the taxes for different reasons. The Song Dynasty increased their tax payments to pay the invaders. The Ming Dynasties leaders were corrupt‚ and they kept taxes for themselves. Therefore‚ they raised them to get more money for their own luxuries. The peasants couldn’t afford the high taxes and due to this both of the dynasties started to ignore the needs of the poor. The Song and Ming Dynasties
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