Guns‚ Germs and Steel Preface * Basis: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? * Predominant focus on histories of literate Eurasia (western Eurasia) and North African societies 3 disadvantages 1. More people today are interested in understanding societies besides that of Western Europe a. Other societies encompass most of the world’s population and vast majority of the world’s ethnic‚ cultural and linguistic groups b. Other societies are already or
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITEIT VAN SURINAME Faculteit der Maatschappijwetenschappen Public Administration Term paper Case-study: The United Nations in Crisis Situations Subject: The Failure of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in 1994 Rwandan Genocide Written by: Michelle Simson Course: International Relation II Semester: B-II Educator: R.A. Franklin Place: Paramaribo Date: 18 august 2009 Foreword This term paper is part of the course International Relations
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I. The Quest for Order A. Mesopotamia: "The land between the rivers" 1. Sumer a. Sumerians migrated to Sumer‚ 5000 B.C.E.‚ built irrigation networks b. Became dominant by 3000 B.C.E. c. Other inhabitants‚ mostly Semites - Akkadian‚ Hebrew‚ Aramaic‚ Phoenician 2. Sumerian city-states a. A dozen cities dominated the area from 3200 to 2350 B.C.E. b. Internal and external pressures promoted cities to become states c. Importance of government in irrigation and self-defense 3. Sumerian
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Architecture Vijayanagara architecture is a vibrant combination of the Chalukya‚ Hoysala‚ Pandya and Chola styles‚ idioms that prospered in previous centuries. Its legacy of sculpture‚ architecture and painting influenced the development of the arts long after the empire came to an end. Its stylistic hallmark is the ornate pillared Kalyanamantapa (marriage hall)‚ Vasanthamantapa (open pillared halls) and the Rayagopura (tower). Artisans used the locally available hard granite because of its durability
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French and the Canadian Fur Trade: when: late 1500’s early 1600’s (the French established modern-day Quebec in 1603) who: the French (specifically Samuel de Champlain who established New France‚ modern-day Quebec). where: North America Overview: Indians began trading fur (especially beaver fur) to French fishermen in the 1500’s. The fur got back to Europe and became incredibly popular. The prospective wealth of fur profits in the new world attracted many Europeans to North America. Fur trading
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India (i/ˈɪndiə/)‚ officially the Republic of India (Bharat Ganrajya)[c]‚ is a country in South Asia. It is theseventh-largest country by area‚ the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people‚ and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south‚ the Arabian Sea on the south-west‚ and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east‚ it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;[d] China‚ Nepal‚ andBhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east
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Social scientists have studied it‚ lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math‚ science and engineering fields. Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal‚ academic‚ corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains‚ and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible. The
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Introduction: The aims of this paper are to access the causes of the war in Rwanda that started in 1990 and ended in 1994 and to access the causes of the genocide‚ an important part of this war. I shall access the extent to which ethnic identity and cultural identity are causes of the war and genocide. Firstly I shall present a brief summary of when the war broke out and what happened over the following 4 years. I shall and then take a look at how the history of Rwanda and especially the colonial
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EDPHOD8/101/3/2014 Tutorial letter 101/3/2014 The educator in a pastoral role EDPHOD8 Semesters 1 & 2 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Intermediate‚ Senior phase and FET specialisations CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 3 2
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