Elise Dixon Mrs. Legnini AP World History January 16‚ 2013 Chapter 18‚ 21‚ 22 Vocabulary Catherine the Great Who: Russian What: ruler of Russia When: 18th Century Where: Russia Why significance: added new lands to Russia‚ encouraged science‚ art‚ literature‚ Russia became one of Europe’s most powerful nations. Third Rome Who: Russians What: Russian claim to be successor state to Roman and Byzantine empires When: 15th century Where: Russia Why significance: Moscow became the Religious center for
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The rise of the West from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries involved distant explorations and conquests resulting in a heightening and redefining of relationships among world societies. During the classical era‚ larger regional economies and culture zones had developed‚ as in the Chinese Middle Kingdom and the Mediterranean basin‚ but international exchanges were not of fundamental importance to the societies involved. During the postclassical period‚ contacts increased and were more significant
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IN AN ANTIQUE LAND BY AMITAV GHOSH In An Antique Land is a very capturing and an educative chronicle of a traveler‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ who perfectly weaves Indian and Egyptian history into one single story spread across various time periods. As the contents of the book suggests‚ the novel is divided into six parts namely‚ the Prologue‚ Lataifa‚ Nashawy‚ Mangalore‚ Going Back and Epilogue. The story begins with the Prologue where Ghosh reads a “short article by the scholar E. Strauss‚ in the 1942 issue
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National University of Singapore Economics 2373: Global Economic Dimensions of Singapore Individual Term Paper Adopting and Improving: The Influence and Legacy of Western Civilization in the Development of Modern Singapore Based on the Question: “It was the Western trader and the Western administrator who introduced modern ideas‚ modern systems of government‚ modern education and modern techniques of communications and production into traditional Asia.” (Goh Keng Swee) Discuss the
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Introduction: It is difficult to date or define the Renaissance. Etymologically the term‚ which was first used in England only as late as the nineteenth century‚ means’ "re-birth". Broadly speaking‚ the Renaissance implies that re-awakening of learning which came to Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renaissance was not only an English but a European phenomenon; and basically considered‚ it signalised a thorough substitution of the medieval habits of thought by new attitudes
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Kerala Introduction Better known as God’s Own Country‚ Kerala is a heavenly portrait splashed with myriad of enchanting hues. Situated in the southern tip of India‚ Kerala is caressed by the Arabian Sea in the western coast of India. It is a green Venice‚ but unlike Venice‚ where man has created most of the glory‚ in Kerala nature rules. This beautiful coastal state of India is the country’s ambassador to the world of travel and tourism. From the lagoons & backwaters that meander through the
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Europe expansion to India began in 18th century had great changes in various field such as economics politic‚ society‚ culture and so on. Especially‚ after British imperialism which became a ruler of India had great effect on India. As a result‚ there are many essential changes in language and customs in India and even thought they gained independence from British rule 200 years ago‚ the influence on the British colonial era has still remained in many ways. One of the most factors that the British
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The first Europeans to establish roots in India since the fall of the Roman Empire were the Protuguese. Led by Vasco da Gama’s landing at Calicut in 1498‚ they established themselves along the Malabar Coast‚ trading with the rest of the subcontinent from there. (The Portuguese maintained some holdings in India as late as 1961.) In 1600‚ the British East India Company was given the right to a monopoly to trade with India. While the company’s primary objective was to get spices from Indonesia (East
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half a century of the Portuguese tentative to find a sea route to India was finally crowned with success. The man behind the quest was Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) – a devout Roman Catholic whose nightlong vigil in a Lisbon chapel before commending himself to the unsure waters had finally paid off. and if ‘Christians and spices’ were his twin pretext at the outset‚ da Gama’s successive visits to India‚ first in 1500 to set up a ‘factory’ or a trading base‚ then in 1502 to wreak havoc on the port and
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NOTES ON SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT 1) colonialism in "Shooting an Elephant." * George Orwell wrote this essay when England ruled Burma as a colony---much like it had ruled America during the colonial period. Colonialism occurred when many European nations simply took over countries because they believed their culture was superior to the native culture. The ideas of social darwinism‚ or survival of the strongest nations and/or people‚ played a large role in the domination and subjection of countries
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