Emma James Period 4 August 21‚ 2013 Chapter Questions-The West Before 1300 1) What was the significance of Hebrew monotheism for the future of Western civilization? Monotheism‚ the existence of one universal God‚ impacted Western civilization in various ways. The second Isaiah describes the strongest statement of Hebrew monotheism in a poem written during the Hebrew exile in Babylonia‚ 597-539 B.C.E. In this poem‚ God is described as the creator of the heavens‚ the earth‚ and life to
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Literacy has always been the key factor in human development and has helped people through tough times. In tough times people rely on the knowledge they have to get through the situation. Literacy is important in times a crisis because to know what’s going on in the world you have to be able to read news articles‚ signs‚ directions and instructions. Literacy has helped people develop in ways unimaginable. Everything started with an idea ‚ something to write with‚ and something to write on. Literacy
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AP European History THE COLD WAR in EUROPE (1945-1990) Watershed Events 4th Quarter 1. Berlin Blockade and Airlift • Who - Soviet and Western Allies • What - The soviets chose to seal the city off by closing all railroads and highways that led from Berlin to West Germany in order to drive the Western powers out of Berlin. Soviet wanted to get the Allies to give up Berlin. The Allies chose to drop off supplies via planes to support West Berlin. When - 1948/49 Where - Berlin Why - Rising tension
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Causes and Effects of the Extent of the Black Death The Bubonic Plague started in Europe in the fourteenth century. The plague had wiped out nearly one third of the population and did not single anyone out‚ regardless of age‚ gender‚ or religion. All of this occurred as a result of a single fleabite. Bubonic Plague also known as Black Death started in Asia and traveled to Europe by ships. The Bubonic Plague was an infectious disease spread by fleas living on rats which would attached themselves
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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY NOTES- Filled with silliness and inside jokes‚ enjoy at your leisure :) If something is in [] brackets‚ it is only written in there for our pleasure‚ ignore it if you are looking for actual information. • 7: The Renaissance and Reformation- 1350-1600 Key: UMSUniversal o Georgio Vasari- Rinascita=rebirth (like Renaissance) painter/architect Male Suffrage o Individualism: People sought to receive personal credit for achievements‚ unlike medieval ideal of “all glory goes to
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id=106) Essay Writing Document-based question (DBQ) “Levels of Literacy” (60 minutes‚ 1‚000 words minimum) Task: Describe the variations in the levels of literacy in Old Regime France and trace these variations over time. Analyze the factors that promoted or discouraged the spread of literacy. Analysis of fourteen documents for the DBQ “Literacy in France” essay question: Document # 1: Document # 1 was a comparison of the degree of literacy in France between the seventeenth and late eighteenth
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Grant Benick 10-16-14 AP World AP World History Free-Response Questions (DBQ) Buddhism was founded in India in the sixth century B.C.E and was brought into China by the first century C.E. Gradually winning converts‚ the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E caused a period of political instability and disunity. There is the Buddhist who support Buddhism and praised the Buddha as their god. However‚ there were some people who are against Buddhism and didn’t like it as a religion so they went against
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Brandon Hunt AP European History Timeline 4th period. European History Timeline 1.) Black Death – 1348 – 14th century disease that killed off much of the European population. The disease was contracted from fleas giving it off to black rats that passed it amongst the villages. In the times current studies‚ Boccaccio noticed that‚ black boils and spots cover the infected person leaving them a few days to live. 2.) Statue of Labourers – 1351 – This law was passed so the peasants would stop taking
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AP European History Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought Chapter Overview * The faith in science that dominated thought in the second half of the nineteenth century. * Conflict between church and state over education. * Islam and late nineteenth-century European thought. * The effect of modernism in literature and art‚ psychoanalysis‚ and the revolution of physics on intellectual life. * Racism and anti-Semitism * Feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
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Elliot Vasquez 9/28-29/13 AP European History renaissance art essay Throughout European history art has changed in many ways. During medieval European history the art style was very unrealistic. The human body proportions were all wrong. Grown men and women were sized as children or midgets. The art style was also not very elegant due to the fact it was called the dark ages. During the Italian and upper European renaissance the art styles changed along with the rest
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