military Thutmose still managed to have a major impact upon the internal development of Egypt‚ this included religious and buildings. The reason that Thutmose was able to have such an extensive building program was because of the large amount of tribute that was flowing in from his successful military campaigns. Some of the buildings constructed by Thutmose include two temples‚ one to Amun Re and one to Thutmose II‚ at Karnak a festival hall‚ 6th and 7th pylon‚ a temple to Ptah and rebuilding of
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Gale Believes Katniss has the potential to overcome the other tributes in The Hunger Games if she finds a bow. Gale states: “Listen‚” “Getting a knife should be pretty easy‚ but you’ve got to get your hands on a bow. That’s your best chance.”(Pg. 24). Katniss‚ being pessimistic‚ shuts out all of Gale’s positive remarks “They don’t always have bows‚” I say‚ thinking of the year there were only horrible spiked maces that the tributes had to bludgeon one another to death with.(Pg 24). Katniss Everdeen
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each district to fight to death‚ annually. The tributes chosen to compete in the games are chosen at random from a drawing filled with each of the names of young adults in the different districts. Children ages twelve to eighteen are enlisted into the drawing. The entries are cumulative though‚ so when the tribute is twelve their name is entered once‚ thirteen twice‚ and so on until they are eighteen it will be entered seven times. Also‚ the tributes can choose to add their name to the drawing more
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with foreign exotic products‚ such as gems‚ animal skins‚ and tropical bird feathers to give to the ruling elites evidence the information gathered about these soon-to-be-conquered lands. The Aztecs also used the merchants to sell the abundance of tribute given to ruling elites to distant lands. Many of these items included translucent jade‚ emeralds‚ tortoise shells‚ jaguar skins‚ parrot feathers‚ seashells‚ and game animals. In the Mongol Empire‚ they supported merchants and artisans directly more
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Katniss goes through the Departure stage just as every other Hero does‚ but Katniss knows that the chance of Call to Adventure is coming but when The Capitol comes to her district to choose the annual two tributes‚ her little sister Primrose is chosen. Katniss then offers herself to be tribute instead of Primrose. The Refusal of the Call comes when Katniss is frightened and unsteady about what is happening and the thought of having to go out and fight to the death with random kids Katniss would like
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ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST 10. THE TRAIDING ROUTE • In the last two centuries of the Middle Ages‚ the Europeans‚ while regaining the Holy Land from the Muslims‚ were able to establish commerce with the Orient through trade routes. The goods the Europeans wanted were gold‚ jewels‚ silk‚ perfumes‚ especially spices like: *pepper *onions *ginger *nutmeg *garlic is the most important items of trade from East. • Owning to the desire of the Europeans to enhance the taste of food and to preserve
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resulted to a massive destruction and economic downfall. As penitence for their uprising‚ each of the twelve districts are sent to a public “reaping” in which a male and female between ages twelve and eighteen are selected in a yearly lottery. The tributes shall be taken to the city of capitol where they are trained for a battle in a large human made arena where they fight to the death while everyone watches on television until one victor remains. The survivor of the game will receive glory‚ wealth
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capital in previous years. Children from each district aged 12-18 go into a lottery each year and the 2 unlucky names pulled out will be the tributes of their district. After strenuous training they must enter the area and fight for their survival. The last person standing will become the victor. Throughout the novel you follow the courageous struggle of the two tributes from district 12 and the fight for their survival during their experience in the hunger games. The Hunger Games presents many themes
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draw. Each District nominates one male and one female. The Capitol then sends the 24 tributes to a artificial arena where they nationally televise the gruesome scenes and murders all for entertainment. The way the people in the Capitol are shown laughing and having a good time while the tributes are in the arena murdering each other is very disturbing‚ but not surprising in such a biased society. After the last tribute is alive and wins the Capitol people go back to their normal lives like nothing
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Mongolian expansion opened trade routes. China was able to export large amounts of silk and porcelain. This made China a center of commerce‚ allowing international trade. Trade in Russia benefited only a few cities including Moscow‚ who collected tribute for the Mongols. Many of the Russians were worse off because they
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