KARABAR DISTANCE EDUCATION ENGLISH FACULTY Assessment Task –Preliminary Course English Standard 2014 Task no: 1 Mail Date: 14/03/2014 Topic: ‘Gladiator’ – Representations of a Hero Weighting: 25% Language modes: Viewing/ Representing/ Writing Outcomes to be assessed: 1‚3‚5‚7‚12 P1: A student demonstrates understanding of the relationships between composer‚ responder‚ text and context. P5: A student describes the ways different technologies and media of production
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Mesopotamia means “The land of rivers” in Greek. This civilization started around 6000 B.C. Mesopotamia is in the area of the Tigris and Euphrates river system and is part of modern day Iraq‚ north eastern Syria‚ Southwestern Turkey‚ and smaller parts of Southwester Iran. The two rivers Tigris and Euphrates had a massive effect on this civilization‚ the people could farm easily because of the rich soil known as the Fertile Crescent which was the cause of the two rivers. Mesopotamia is considered
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around the whole land of Havilah‚ where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris‚ which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. (Genesis 2:8-14)
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specialized labor‚ and complex institutions. However‚ it did have many set backs like uncontrollable flooding‚ which destroyed lives and crops. Regardless‚ both the success and failure of Mesopotamia was affected by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Euphrates and the Tigris rivers were on both sides of Mesopotamia‚ and the people living there used the water as an advantage to trade. The location of the rivers is an example of how geography affected Mesopotamia positively. Petroleum and red clay
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Around 5‚000 years ago early civilizations settled near rivers. Ancient China civilizations established on the Huang-He River Valley‚ while early Mesopotamian civilizations settled near the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley. While both Huang-He River Valley and Mesopotamia have similar politics they also differed in the interactions with the environment and economics. China and Mesopotamia had several ways of interacting with the environment. China`s type of farming differed from Mesopotamian`s
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Mesopotamia‚ the latter had a better understanding and control over water than Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia (3500 B.C.E. - 530 B.C.E.) was located in northeast Syria‚ which is now know today as Iraq. It was mainly surrounded by water‚ most notably the Tigris and Euphrates rivers‚ which is how it adopted its name "the land between the rivers". Luckily it was also located on the site of some of the world’s first permanent farming villages. The land and climate within these regions was not the best area
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had different believes and civilization. The Egyptian civilization settled among the Nile and the Mesopotamian civilization settled among the Euphrates and Tigris. Doing agriculture along the Nile River was much different than doing it along the Euphrates and Tigris. The Nile River was very predictable and calm‚ but the Euphrates and Tigris were very unpredictable and just wild. Due to the predictable river‚ there was regular planting and harvesting season in Egypt. On the other side‚ due to unpredictable
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Themes in U.S. & World History; Geographic and Environmental Factors An example of physical geographic factors that contributed to the development and expansion of the United States are the Appalachian Mountains and the discovery of the Cumberland Gap. The second geographical factor that significantly contributed to the development and expansion of the United States is the major rivers of the Midwest regions such as‚ “The Mississippi‚ Ohio‚ Missouri‚ Illinois‚ and other rivers knit together
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Endangered Species: Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) By Natalie Hegwein The common name for the species is Bengal Tiger and it belongs to the genus/species Panthera tigris tigris. The Bengal Tiger usually has a reddish brown coat with narrow black‚ gray‚ or brown strips going in a vertical direction accompanied by a cream or white underbelly. Although some have a mutation gene which causes the skin color to be white instead of the usual color. Since the tigers generally hunt at
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civilizations excelled at feeding and supporting large populations of people. This was done largely because both had techniques that allowed them to excel in farming and agriculture. Mesopotamia had fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Despite receiving little rainfall‚ the Tigris and Euphrates brought large volumes of fresh water to the region through irrigation. Cultivators tapped these rivers‚ built reservoirs‚ and dug canals so they could irrigate fields of barley‚ wheat‚ and peas. Similarly
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