Athens and Hans China are two ancient societies that had successful‚ thriving civilizations. Each civilization invented new and useful items that influence today’s time period some examples are paper‚ a pulley‚ and a flush toilet. Although these two civilizations are six thousand miles apart Athens located in the district of Attica and China at the end of the Eurasian land mass they had three moderately similar differences: the way the citizens opinions/views impacted the running of the government
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Ottomans and Arabs Ottomans: Factors of Decline * Competition between elite * Weak rulers * Increasingly powerful Janissary corps * Increased competition from European merchants * Military challenges from the West * Ottomans vs. Russia (result: loss of Serbia‚ Greece‚ and most of Balkans) Survival * Played European rivals against each other * Selim III: reformed bureaucracy‚ new army and navy. Killed by janissaries in 1807 * Mahmud II: slaughtered Janissaries
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dominated the trade‚ especially since there were so many coastal forts of the east side of Africa. Trade then switched amongst the Muslims of the Middle East‚ China and then the various European groups. This was a change because the Swahili were native to Africa‚ and sold ivory‚ gold‚ iron‚ slaves and exotic animals for silk in Persia and porcelain in China while power shifted multiple times until Europeans steadily began dominating sea trade‚ especially with the high demand and cheap expense to sell the
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Pilgrim vs. the World The American society has many different ways of occupying a person’s life with so many different activities whether it would be sports‚ education or entertainment. Coming from the branch of entertainment‚ films are made to catch someone’s attention and bring him or her into another world. Films tend to make people feel as if they are actually inside the movie itself and over time they have evolved from the technology that has been improving the world. Scott Pilgrim vs. the
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Comparisons 8000 BCE- 2000 BCE: River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia‚ China‚ Egypt‚ and India were all river valley civilizations‚ meaning they arose in the valleys of major rivers. Mesopotamia arose on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; china on the Yellow river; Egypt on the Nile river; and India on the Indus river. Irrigation systems were built to control water for farming. All four civilizations were governed by kings who derived their authority form the gods(either they claimed
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Using China and United States as National Culture Level: PDI IDV MAS UAI LTO Power Distance Index Individualist Masculinity Uncertainty Avoidance Index Long-Term Orientation Indulgence East China 80 20 66 30 87 24 West United States 40 91 62 46 26 68 Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. For China‚ PDI is high at 80 and it means China is a society
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|POLITICAL |Ashoka. Followed the laws on the 5 pillars set up by Ashoka. They | | | |Leaders‚ Elites |had an imperial government‚ replacing previous ones based on family| | |
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Ch. 20: The Muslim Empires Introduction -Nomadic invasions wasted much of the Muslim world w/ the sacking of Baghdad in 1258 • 3 new Muslim dynasties emerged after the nomadic invasions -New flowering of Islamic civilization; Competition(political divisions+military incursions -Largest-Ottoman from N Africa to S Russia; Safavid dynasty to the E; Mughals in Delhi region of Ganges plain -3 empires combined=largest Islamic political+military power ever -All 3 depended on firearms-“gunpowder
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British Literature Examination 8 Choose a theme and explain how that theme influences the system of rules and order the boys establish when they arrive on the island‚ and what happens when the rules disintegrate. Order in the World vs. Savagery Among Men In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ the characters demonstrate what can happen when the fear of the unknown sets in. Giving up the familiarity of authoritative figures and domesticated surroundings can put some people
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revolt would be quickly crushed by the government. 3. Russia’s revolution garnered enough support to topple the Czar’s government by pointing out what people were dealing with in normal life‚ and what they did not have compared to the rest of the world. The workers fought for pay which was equal to the income their work brought. Wars that were provoked by the Czar also helped because the people were not very fond of constant war because it meant more work for the war effort on top of the 12 hour
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