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    During the 1800s‚ Europeans began to have their eyes set on the continent of Africa‚ as they went after their natural resources. As they scrambled for Africa‚ their hypocritical actions enraged some Africans while others just gave in to the Europeans since they had more technology‚ and seemed more powerful. Some African nations‚ tired of the European treatment towards them‚ decided to unite and fight them. (Doc7).Others simply stood firm and didn’t want anything from the Europeans. They didn’t want

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    Art History of African Art and New World Culture - Exam #1 Study Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: Ceremonial Robe (Chilkat Blanket)‚ 19th-20th c. Haida red cedar bentwood box Cultural Anthropology: -the study of learned behavioral systems. -Includes kinship systems‚ religion‚ economic systems‚ political systems‚ and symbolic systems Holism: Cultures make sense when the relationships

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    the major similarities and differences between two of the following systems: Caribbean slavery West African slavery Russian serfdom Answer: When you look at the Caribbean and Slavery and Russian serfdom you would probably think serfdom doesn’t seem like slavery but in a way it was. These two labor systems have their differences but they also have similarities. Slavery became popular in Caribbean and Russia; these too have similarities in how they treated their slaves/serfdom. In the Caribbean the

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    Why do I love history? Do you want to know why? This is because I think history is an interesting subject. Most students hate to study history. This is because they think they have to memorise a lot of facts. Actually‚ we don’t have to do this. If you really want to score in history subject means‚ you just have to really understand about what is exactly happening. If you do this means‚ I’m absolutely sure that you will score in history subject. Now let’s see why I really do love this subject. History

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    them declared their mission to win and hold the Holy Land‚ but in reality European knights were eager to capture any Mediterranean territory that offered land and wealth.” (Dunn and Mitchell 362) This focus on religion would also spread into the art world as artists would be commissioned to create pieces that were inspired and dedicated to religion. Europe would also trade goods and techniques with these

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    One of the many key aspects discussed while having a debate about World War I‚ asks the question‚ which country is held accountable for starting the “Great War”? Well‚ one could simply state that any country across Europe is responsible for this war‚ as there is no specific country to start this war‚ but one of its most important contributors would be Germany. In addition to involving themselves in an Austrian-Hungarian conflict‚ they also happened to lure a multitude of countries across Europe

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    A document that would show a Japanese elementary school from the 19th century to compare it to the normal school in doc. 2 would help in comparison of the documents. Also a western style elementary school from the 19th century that could show the similarities and differences from the Japanese school would help. Education was affected by the west in many ways in Japan. Documents 2‚6 show this perfectly. This supports my thought that the West played a pivotal role in their development and modernization

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    From the 1200’s BCE to 1300 AD‚ empires grew into existence and fell to destruction. They changed the systems of politics and warfare‚ shifting through different styles of warfare and uses for the armies they built. Most empires had some sort of military force used to conquer‚ expand and protect their lands from “barbarians” or certain nomadic people groups. Some empires though‚ such as the Mongols‚ Chinese‚ and those that were apart of the Islamic Empire had specific and vast changes to their military’s

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    the industrial world and traveled only slow ly‚ifat all‚ beyond it.Entire electorateswill learn things that once only a few bureaucrats knew. Small companieswill offerservicesthatpreviously onlygiantscould provide.In all theseways‚ thecom munications revolution is profoundlydemocratic and liberating‚levelingtheimbalancebetween large and small‚ richand poor." The global vision that FrancesCairncross predicted inherDeath ofDis tanceappears to be upon us.We seem to live in a world that is no longer

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    *I’m  only  putting  everything  that’s  on  the  sheet she  gave  us  yesterday (Tuesday).  If  she  adds anything in class‚ feel free to throw that in here‚ since I have no idea what she’s going  to  add‚  she told  me  I have to  find  out  through other people. Also‚ by the time you read this  it’ll probably be incomplete still‚ but I’ll try to get in as much as I can while y’all are still in  school. ­K.G.    Vocabulary    Rise of Islam Vocab:  Umma:  ​ A word used to describe the collective community of those who believe/practice in 

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