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    The Great Depression is considered to be the most severe economic collapse in the history of the world. The Great Depression occurred in October 1929 and lasted until 1939. In October 1929‚ Wall Street’s investors were wiped out‚ which caused consumer spending and investment to decline. The next effect to the crash on Wall Street was the decline in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. The Great Depression reached its lowest when there were about 15 million Americans

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    Complex Civilizations

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    Sydney Dodds Origins of Ancient Civilizations Professor Hepp February 6‚ 2013 Drawbacks of Complex Societies Today we are convinced that modern‚ complex societies excel and surpass earlier civilizations. We believe that we live in a period of all around progress‚ a state that has a positive connotation to most people. During the transition to complex societies‚ having first arisen in southern Mesopotamia‚ humans’ relations to the environment and to other people greatly transformed. Although

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    The Mayan Civilization

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    The Mayan civilization was located in what is now known as Guatemala‚ Belize‚ Honduras‚ El Salvador and also in the area of the five southern states of Mexico‚ including Campeche‚ Chiapas‚ Quintana Roo‚ Tabasco‚ and Yucatan. The civilization was originally founded during the pre-classic period (about 2‚000 BC to 250 AD). According to the chronology of Central America‚ many of the Mayan cities reached their highest level of sophistication through the classic period (approx. 250 BC to 900 AD)‚ and

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    the 1920’s‚ the great depression hit and so made a very uneven distribution of wealth‚ the top 1 percent of all americans had the riches of the bottom 42 percent of all americans. The uneven distribution caused factories to higher their prices‚ lower the employee’s pay to try stay afloat but didn’t succeed. It wasn’t only factories though‚ mining‚ farming and textiles failed as well all leading up to the shutting down of thousands of banks. During the period that lead to the great depression uneven

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    to the streams (Document 4). Mesopotamia was also a civilization that was impacted by its geographic features. The Fertile Crescent was a main part of the Mesopotamian society. It helped with the development of the Mesopotamian society because the crops farmed in the Fertile Crescent could be traded with other countries for goods that the Mesopotamians could not provide for themselves. The Fertile Crescent was the reason that civilizations arose in Mesopotamia. This occurred because it opened

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    needs a powerful force to sustain them in life. Fitzgerald‚ the author of The Great Gatsby‚ built such a man Gatsby in this book‚ who endeavored to realize the gorgeous dream in his entire life. From the narrator Nick’s description‚ Gatsby’s life was presented clearly in front of readers. It seems that Gatsby loves Daisy deeply‚ but in fact‚ Gatsby loves the idea of Daisy‚ which was put in his inner heart and creates great Gatsby. To prove this idea‚ there are three evidences. First‚ Gatsby always

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    The Great Depression was a point of time in history where people thought everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Everyone was loosing their jobs‚ people were lining up in soup kitchens‚ and all the banks were running out of money. American was made up of immigrants‚ and those people had come to America to escape this kind of depression to have a better life. In the 1920’s people seriously believed that the stock market could go up and up forever. Also people were investing in things often

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    The Early Civilizations

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    The Early Civilizations Most people think that caveman were dumb‚ but have you ever wondered what they did to bring us here? The time of the Nomads was in the Stone Age which was in the year 3500 B.C.. The Nomads were hunters and gatherers. They made their tools and weapons for hunting from stones and sticks‚ by attaching sharp rocks to the end of sticks to make a club or an ax. Some animals that they hunted were wolves and mammoths. The gatherers collected berries‚ nuts‚ and roots to eat. The

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    Tikal Civilization

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    MWF 9:05-9:55 Dr.Moloye Tikal Civilization Civilization-societies in which large numbers of people live in cities‚ are socially stratified‚ and are governed by a ruling elite working through centrally organized political systems. Tikal meaning “at the waterhole‚” derived from the Yucatec Maya language is the modern name for the largest archaeological sites of the ancient ruined cities of the Mayan civilization. It emerged as an important site due to its relative altitude in the region. Tikal

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    In his book ’Civilization on Trial’ Toynbee deals with constitutional structure based on the British and US examples. The author states that constitutional systems are subjected to alterations as their institutional arrangements are adaptable to political changes in the country. First and foremost‚ the constitutional government implies the existence of a constitution that has control over the exercise of political power. State organs cooperate in controlling political power in such a way that

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