Without the walls‚ we would have been unable to build our once-great empire‚ let alone to have defended it in the face of Peloponnesian resistance‚ for with them we were indomitable by land‚ and the power of our navy and our commercial machine was always available. We would not have withstood the frequent Spartan sieges but would have starved‚ cut off from our port. Thus‚ it seems that in order to return to our former excellence we will need new walls. But I urge you to consider whether that excellence
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knowledge. We need standardized testing to show us if a teacher is doing his or her job in the classroom. We have many needs for these standardized tests. Standardized testing has been a around longer than you might realize. The earliest record of standardized testing was in China. (Fletcher-"Standardized Testing"). They used the method of standardized testing to examine their knowledge of philosophy and poetry whenever they went to get prospected for a job. This is most likely not the reason why most people
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The purpose of this paper is to show the beginnings of Jazz and how it transformed and developed through the decades. What I needed to research‚ was how jazz all began and how it evolved. How did it start? Who were the people that were involved in the beginning? Where did it begin? How did it evolve into what jazz is today? Jazz had its beginnings in Africa. Before the slave trade‚ tribes in Africa had there own rhythms‚ instruments‚ and dances. It was the slave trade brought by ships to South America
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Summary: In the article “Why Fraternities Need to Be Abolished.” Andrew Lohse explains why the Greek life isn’t the right choice for anyone. Lohse explains that fraternities try covering up their partying and hazing up with donations to charity or volunteering. Lohse refuses to look past what they have done to men and women over the years. Lohse points out that fraternities teach men to become the perpetrator and use women as their victims. Lohse is tired of the government just looking past what
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There is no convincing case for a written constitution in Britain. Discuss. Every country needs a constitution to know the rules in which they need to abide by and the principles that the governors govern by. Unlike America and France‚ Britain does not have a written constitution. This in turn can cause problems for both the citizens and government when a difficult situation comes about and the rules in which need to be followed cannot be referred to as they are not in one single document. An example
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allowed for the work of writers and scientists to be shared with a large amount of people‚ especially with the decreased costs. However‚ I would argue that the Printing Press is limited in its effect as while it allowed for the exchange of ideas‚ it did not contribute anything to them and thus the printing press on its own could not have contributed a great amount to the Renaissance‚ but when combined with other factors it became very
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While the Ottoman Empire was declining after putting themselves through many wars in the early 20th century‚ the new Turkish government pondered ways to revive their empire and return to an Islamic state as they were also getting themselves into World War 1. As the minority Armenian group was being accused of assisting the Russian enemy‚ an ethnic cleanse was a solution to the empire’s slump. Despite this ethnic cleanse and deportation of traitors being seen as good in the eyes of a Turk‚ their resolution
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com/magazine/2016/09/maya-empire-snake-kings-dynasty-mesoamerica/ The Mayan Empire stretched from an estimated 525 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Hundreds of research expeditions and excavation teams have been sent out into the ruins of temples and pyramids from this era‚ in search of what happened in that almost 10 century time period of the first documented history of the Mayan Empire. Throughout its time the empire had several different dynasties and rulers overseeing and conquering its lands. The lost empire of Maya refers
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The Eastern Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire Constantine Roman emperor who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (eventually became the Constantinople) in 330 A.D. Constantinople The eastern part of the Roman Empire. Located along the Bosporus shore‚ the shore that links the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. 395 A.D. When the capital of the Roman Empire was returned to Rome. Making Rome as the capital of the Western Roman Empire. 476 A.D. Fall of the Western
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failure of Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-49? Austria had a massive empire in the early 19th century‚ Italy only being a small part. The 1815 Congress of Vienna had given Austria direct control over Lombardy and Venetia‚ and had also put an Austrian family in charge of ruling smaller duchies such as Parma and Modena. As such‚ Austria had dominating control over a lot of Italy. However‚ this was not the only reason why Italian revolutionaries failed. Other factors included the fact that there
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