A. Existing trade routes including the Silk Roads‚ the Mediterranean Sea‚ the transSaharan and the Indian Ocean basins flourished and promoted the growth of powerful new trading cities. (such as—to mention just a few— Novgorod‚ Timbuktu‚ the Swahili citystates‚ Hangzhou‚ Calicut‚ Baghdad‚ Melaka‚ Venice‚ and‚ in the Americas‚ Tenochtitlan or Cahokia) Hannah Shapiro and Eliza Antonowich Prior knowledge As new trade routes developed‚ major trading ports and cities were necessary to provide a
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Aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values‚ sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.[1] More broadly‚ scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art‚ culture and nature."[2][3] Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of axiology‚ a branch of philosophy‚ and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.[4] Aesthetics studies new ways of seeing and of perceiving the world.[5] *
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Explain how African states deal with the relationship between environment and development? Contents ------------------------------------------------- 1. Abstract 3 2. Introduction 3 3. Historical Context 4 4. Current Perspectives 5 5. Malawi – Introduction 6 6. Background 7 7. Policy Action linking environment and development 8 8. Public Policy in Malawi 8 9. Policy process in Malawi 9 10
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1.01 How Did the Roman Empire Expand? Have you ever played an app in which you have to build a zoo‚ city‚ or farm? If so‚ you know that your zoo does not become full of animals overnight. You must raise capital to add animals to your zoo. The more imaginary coins you have‚ the more land and animals you can purchase. Like these imaginary civilizations‚ the Roman Empire‚ too‚ took time to build. It did not just emerge overnight. The city of Rome was founded by a group of people called the Latins
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Chapter One The Art of Benin I I. Introduction A. Cultural Encounters Between Europe and Benin from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century 1. The trade in objects in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 2. The imperial confrontations of the late nineteenth century 3. The engagement with ideas about art in the twentieth century B. European Contacts with Benin Europeans first became aware of the existence of Benin through Portuguese traders in the fifteenth century. The accounts left behind indicate
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The Spread of Islam started shortly after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 632. During his lifetime‚ the community of Muhammad‚ the ummah‚ was established in the Arabian Peninsula by means of conversion to Islam and conquering of territory. In the first centuries conversion to Islam followed the rapid growth of the Islamic world under the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphs. Muslim dynasties were soon established and subsequent empires such as those of the Abbasids‚ Almoravids‚ Seljuk Turks
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1. THE DYING SUN Q. 1: How is it that star seldom finds another star near it? Ans: A star seldom finds another star near it because there is a distance of millions of miles between the two stars. Moreover‚ space is immensely vast and each star is bound to travel in its own orbit. Q. 2: What happened when‚ according to Sir James Jeans‚ a wandering star‚ wandering through space came near the sun? Ans: When a wandering star came near the sun‚ it raised tides on the surface of the sun
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BCE= Before common era (same as BC) CE= Common Era (Same as AD) Circa = around the time of‚ approximately – not exact date( abbreviated “ca” or “c”) Chapter 1 * 4mil ya to 3500 BCE * Hominids * australopithecus 4mil ya * Homo Erectus 1.5 mil ya Homo Sapiens 200 thousand ya * Paleolithic – Hunter/Gatherer * Paleolithic – “old stone age” – first hominids to 12‚000 years ago; Hunters and Gatherers; Nomadic; No private property; Egalitarian- equal society; Gender-based
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- No solid political system - While China rose to power they did not believe in a certain god while India believed in many gods. - Male dominated society‚ women had virtually no rights Mauryan/Gupta India Political – Caste System‚ Regionalism + diversity‚ Ashoka (grandson of Chandra Gupta‚ led military‚ converted to Buddhism and the promoted peace throughout India‚ wrote on rocks all through India encouraging peace and unification throughout India) Economics – traded + merchants (lots
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HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in
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