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    Cinthya Perez History 102 “Letters to King Jao of Portugal‚” was written by the king of Kongo‚ King Affonso‚ who’s real name was Nzinga Mbemba. King Affonso writes this letter directed to the king of Portugal‚ King Jao‚ to inform him about his concerns of his people. The letter is dated 1526 and takes place in the Kingdom of Kongo‚ which by during this time slave trade is going on (705). Throughout the letter of King Affonso seems to beg King Jao for help rather than being demanding‚ “again we

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    ion1-Western civilization : Contemporary Western civilization is based on deep-rooted intellectual foundations that date back as far as ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Five characteristics of Western thought were brilliantly outlined by Dr. Yussuf Al Qaradawi as follows: (Youssef Al-Qaradawi‚ Islam‚ the Civilization of the Future‚ p. 15‚ Wahba Library‚ Cairo‚ 1995.) 1- The flawed knowledge of the divinity : Western perception underlying Western civilization does not have a neat‚ clear-cut vision

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    Western Civilization from 1589 to 1914 had many specific changes that contributed to the structure of the western world before World War I. In the absolutism state sovereignty is embodied in the person of the ruler. Kings were absolute kings and were resposible to no none except god. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries absolute rulers had to respect the fundamental laws of their land. They had to control competing jurisdictions‚ institutions or groups that were interested in their territory

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    Chapter one the first civilization I. Introduction A. The Idea of Civilization The West is an idea that developed slowly during Greek and Roman civilization. Initially the Greeks referred to their homeland as the Europe—or “West.” The Romans took up the concept and applied it to the western half of their empire. Asia—or the East—was similarly a geographical innovation of the Greeks and Romans. Asia was that land that belonged to non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor‚ particularly the Persians

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    simple destruction‚ for survival‚ or for the annihilation of the enemy. All within the realm of warfare‚ we have found a way to make sticks and stones break bones‚ and everything between simple technologies to the advent of gunpowder‚ has changed civilization and the way we live. Throughout this essay we will look at the simple truths that come from an evolution in weaponry. How it affected the social connections of those times‚ and the way society was forced to wage war with each other. By the time

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    Western Civilization Jordan A. England AIU Online There are many things that had happen in the nineteenth century all the way up to the twentieth century. The expansion of the Europeans into America and the lands that they were taking over from the natives. “The confrontation of Western civilization with other peoples whose values were often dramatically opposed to the West’s…suggests that by the dawn of the twentieth century‚ the tradition and sense of centeredness that had defined indigenous

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    Civilization in the Early Middle Ages‚ 750-1000 1) Describe the contribution of the Muslims and the Vikings to Early European civilizations. Muslims: The first great wave of Muslim expansion had ended at the beginning of the eighth century. Gradually‚ the Muslims built up a series of sea bases in their occupied territories in North Africa‚ Spain‚ and Southern Gaul and began a new series of attacks in the Mediterranean in the ninth century. They raided the southern coasts of Europe‚ especially

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    HIST 100 Primary Source Analysis Part I: Paragraph Assignment—Authority & Order in the Classical West (20 points) Introduction & Purpose The first‚ and some would say principal‚ job of the historian is to discover both the meaning and the significance of historical evidence. This assignment will help you to continue to engage with a key problem facing historians of the early West: how to evaluate primary source evidence that can be both upfront and in some ways full of deceit. You will be

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    Ana Decastro Western Civilization I Professor Sarah M. Lane The crusades were religious wars promoted by the Catholic Church to regain entrance in holy places in Jerusalem in the thirteenth century. Both‚ Muslims and Jews had similar opinions about the crusades differing from the Christians who approved of them. Pope Urban‚ organizer of the papal monarchy and the Roman Curia‚ was a faithful believer of the crusades. At his speech in Clermont in 1095‚ he warned Europeans to accept the crusades

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    Western Civilization‚ defines and helps us understand the important aspects of the term civilization and how it is used. "The peoples of Mesopotamia‚ Egypt‚ the Eastern Mediterranean‚ and Greece created Western civilization by exchanging ideas‚ technologies‚ and objects through trade‚ travel‚ and war. Building on concepts from the Near East‚ Greeks originated the idea of the West as a separate region‚ identifying Europe as the West (where the sun sets) and different from the East (where the sun rises)"

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