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The Neandertals
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... as Spain,
from Gibralter to Uzbekistan.
Neandertal bones have been found in the Neander Valley and Dusseldorf
Germany, in Altamura, Italy and Vindija, Croatia. These are major sites for the
European caves the Neandertals lived in. Although the Neandertals went to the
southern tip of Italy, they never crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Africa. They
migrated from central Europe to central Asia to the Middle East and always came
back. Their main mode of moving around was on their feet, and they usually
travelled in bands of no more than 30 people.
The Neandertals had broad noses, and scientists think ...
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Exploration - Motives For
Number of Words: 813 / Number of Pages: 3
... missionaries, 44 missionary stations, and 30,000 Indian converts to Catholicism. Within a few decades, Spanish explorers became familiar with the northern coast of South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic shore of North America, the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf of Mexico and conclusively- the general outlines of the New World. Despite their knowledge, the Spanish persisted in searching for a Northwest Passage. Some individuals were attempting to escape from religious, political, economic oppression and the seemingly endless number of wars in Europe. The New World offered ownership of land and ...
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Bolshevik Power In Russia
Number of Words: 2625 / Number of Pages: 10
... all three were in favor of the Bolshevik revolutionary platform. Several of the Bolshevik party lines were directly influenced by the Parties strong belief in the proletarian class ( ). These men felt that the workers should be in direct control of production and distribution in the factories, banks and the industries that the Bolshevik party deemed necessary to organize. The Bolshevik leadership also felt the pain of the proletarian class and their struggle against the repression from the Tsarist regime. This in turn caused the Bolshevik party to end this repression, upon their victory, and ha ...
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Rainforest Proposal
Number of Words: 428 / Number of Pages: 2
... I believe that the groups
will not be happy and excited but its a fair deal on my behalf. I
think this is fair because the government had a chance to make
urbanization and it didn’t work out to good. I just don’t want
them
to ruin the rainforest We need it for air.
With this as the new land reserve, I know that the Rubber
Tappers, Enviromentalist’s, and especially the Native
Amazonians. But they will still be very angry to see the
rainforest being cut down to grow crops that don’t grow good in
the rainforest soil.
I also think that the government,Ranchers, and settl ...
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Achilles
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... takes the armor (given to him by ’) off of his dead body, and puts it on himself. Hektor is described as “riding around in all its glory”. After word of Patroklos’ death, the Achaians are intensely dejected. To show just how disheartened the Greeks are, Homer describes the men as lamenting.
“(Then sighing heavily)… my dear companion has perished, Patroklos, whom I loved beyond all other companions, as well as my own life…Thetis spoke to him, letting tears fall” (377, Iliad, 18.78).
It can be sensed that, although in deep mourning for his lost fri ...
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Monasticism
Number of Words: 1351 / Number of Pages: 5
... who are people who are persistence in living alone in order to follow a strict discipline of meditation and self-mortification. In the early centuries of Christianity, in the Egyptian deserts, there lived a group of people whose desire was to escape all the evils of the world. They were called eremites, a Greek word meaning "dwellers in the desert", thus the name for the monastic group came about, Eremitic. Other religions, such as Jainism and Hinduism, also have had hermit monks like these.As the number of Egyptian hermits increased during the 3rd and 4th centuries, they began to gather in small gr ...
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The Black Death In Europe
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... Boccaccio wrote out of Florence and described the “ravages” of the Black Death in the city (Drabble 113). The Decameron is a collection of tales that were “assembled in their definitive form” sometime between 1349 and 1351 (Drabble 260). In his “The Disease of All Diseases” James Fenton describes his assertions on Boccaccio’ s Decameron. Fenton is astonished at the knowledge that Boccaccio presents about this plague:
“What he does know, although he doesn’t quite put it like this, is that the bacterium mutated in the course of its progress…. The next source of horror was its speed – three days or ...
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Charles Dickens 2
Number of Words: 451 / Number of Pages: 2
... years of formal schooling at Wellington House Academy in Hamstead. For the most part, however, he was self-educated. In 1827, dickens took a job as a legal clerk. By 1829, he had become a free-lance reporter at Doctor’s Commons Courts. He had become a very successful shorthand reporter of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and began work as a reporter for a newspaper, in 1832. During his time as a reporter he would develop his skills to write very detailed and factual-like stories.
In 1833, Dickens published his first of a series of original descriptive sketches of daily life in London. ...
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The History Of The Olympic Games
Number of Words: 554 / Number of Pages: 3
... competed for honor, not for material goods.
The Olympics were held every four years until they were abolished by the Christian Byzantine Emporer Theodosius I. In 724 B.C., the double 200y foot race was added to the Olympics. In 720 B.C., the long distance race was added to the events. In 708 B.C., the pentathalon and wrestling were added to the Olympics. In 688 B.C., boxing was added to the Olympics. In 680 B.C., a four horse chariot race was added. in 648 B.C., a horse race was added. In 648 B.C., a pankration was added to the events. A pankration is a Greek athletic event which combined boxing and wr ...
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A Comparison Of Early Civiliza
Number of Words: 1170 / Number of Pages: 5
... Creator and the Forefathers planned and created the " growth of the trees and thickets and the birth of life in the darkness, (The Popul Vuh, Chapter 1, Pg. 3).
The Mesopotamians believed their world was created after the Gods sent Marduk, the Warrior God to defeat the oldest of the Gods, Tiamet, the patron of Primeval Chaos. Tiamet created terrible dragons, serpents, Hurricanes, tempests and just about anything she could in order to prevent the Gods from creating someone to worship them, (The Creation Epic, Tablet 1, pg. 7). Marduk was summoned to kill Tiamet, which he did and created Man out of h ...
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