AP World History Traditions & Encounters Chapter 17 & 20 Ch. 17 & 20 Review Questions Chapter 17 – The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe 1. List the different Germanic kingdoms that took over Europe in the 400-500s and explain their importance. The different Germanic kingdoms were Visigoths‚ Ostrogoths‚ Byzantine empire‚ Franks‚ Lombrads‚ Angles‚ and Saxons. These Germanic kingdoms were the successor states of the Roman empire. 2. Which region did the Franks conquer
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write about are ‘City Friends Advice’ by Benjamin Zephaniah and ‘Advice to a teenage daughter’ by Isobel Thrilling. The structure of ‘City Friends Advice’ is a regular rhyme scheme which helps the rhythm of the poem however in the poem ‘Advice to a teenage daughter’ it doesn’t have a regular rhyme scheme and it is written in free verse which means it doesn’t have any rhyme scheme at all and in the poem the lines are all different lengths. The style in ‘City Friends Advice’ is that it has a simple use
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In the World of Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli Even though Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli were both advisors there was still many differences of the two’s views on how a government should be. A leader is a person who leads or commands a group‚ organization‚ or a country. It does not matter what state‚ country‚ or city someone lives in they are guaranteed to have a leader. Leaders have been around in every era. If considered to be a leader‚ people wanted to be great and admired for what they had done or were
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The electrifying opening of James Frey’s debut memoir‚ A Million Little Pieces‚ smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit‚ snot‚ urine‚ vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states‚ without ID or any money‚ his face mangled and missing four front teeth‚ Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will
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Hind sight is 20/20 vision. If we knew then what we know now‚ would we have done anything differently? Sadly we’ll never know and throwing our hands up in the air and shouting “boo” and “atrocities” or “lets punish Japanese and American commanders‚ naval officers‚ and flight lieutenants” will be of no use whatsoever. Afterall‚ what is done is done. We can’t undo it. Now all we can do is move forward carefully‚ having learned from the horrors of the past. America was the “new‚ rich kid” country‚
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LIBERTY © Liberty Fund‚ Inc. 2005 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/index.php NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI‚ THE ART OF WAR (NEVILLE TRANS.) (1675) URL of this E-Book: http://oll.libertyfund.org/EBooks/Machiavelli_0523.pdf URL of original HTML file: http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0523 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher who wrote a famous piece of advice to The Prince on how to get and keep political power. ABOUT THE BOOK A translation by Neville
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thinker/philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli‚ described two radically different views of government in his two works Prince and Discourses. In the Prince he argues that a monarchy is the ideal rule where as in Discourses he believes that a republic is the most appropriate form. They differ in argument based on how they analyze the ideal state‚ either through its ruler as the head of its people or through a realistic overall view of government‚ religion‚ the influence from the world and the fundamental
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that attempt to attack and board the Nautilus Dumont d"’"Urville- Arannax talks about this famous French explorer who was commander of the Astrolabe; Captain Nemo compares himself to this great sailor Part I Chapter 1- A Shifting Reef: Merchants‚ sailors and captains from all over the world report seeing ’"’an enormous thing‚ a long object‚ spindle shaped‚ occasionally phosphorescent‚ and infinitely larger and more rapid in
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HOW SHOULD BE A LEADER? There are a lot of intellectuals who have books and different thoughts about government and authority. One of them is Machiavelli who is reputed with his book the Prince’. This book includes some advice to leaders. Machiavelli claims in Prince’ (chapter XVI‚ XVII‚ XVIII) that a prince should be miser than liberal‚ should prefer being feared rather than being loved‚ and should not be faithful. In my opinion‚ a leader shuld not be miser and should prefer being loved
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In comparing and contrasting the governmental philosophies of the great thinkers Lao-Tzu and Machiavelli‚ I have found a pleasant mix of both of their ideas would be the best for America today. Lao-Tzu’s laisse-faire attitude towards the economy‚ as well as his small scale military is appealing to my liberal side‚ while Machiavelli’s attitude towards miserliness which causes low taxes appeals to the right wing. These great thinkers contradict the popular saying "all great thinkers think alike." They
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