Chapter 3: South Asia – Around the time when alexander the great is now known for his conquest. He invades almost every nation including the southwest corner of Asia like India, Pakistan, and modern-day Afghanistan. while the greeks and later the roman empire set to establish outpost, they had start building upon a much older network of land and sea route around their territorial expansion that create a linking to the Mediterranean Sea and western Europe, which is part of the east. Transmitting cultural
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The true restoration of kingdom of God consists of the restoration of the kingdom of Israel. 9. The central theme of Jesus’ preaching is eternal life, love, and the kingdom of God. 10. The kingdom of heaven is the state of communion between human and God. 11. Jesus entrusts the kingdom of his church to the Apostles at the Last Supper. 12. The two images used to describe Christ’s sacrifice on the cross are: the Lamb of God and the Good Shepard. 13. St. John meant by his quote that God loves
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Chapter 1 Who were the first known humans and which time periods/territories did they cover? The earliest human-like creatures were known as hominids and lived in Africa about three or four million years ago. They were known as “southern ape-men”, having flourished in eastern and southern Africa. The Australopithecines were the first hominids that made simple stone tools to hunt or defend themselves, existing about two to four million years ago. These early human-like creatures were bipedal, meaning
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In general, Chapter 11 is about coasts, beaches and shores i.e. the land that meets ocean waters. The difference between a shore and a coast is that the coast is a larger zone than a shore. A sandy beach is a shore, however, the coast includes marshes, sand dunes and cliffs inland of the beach. Coasts also have sandbars and troughs right of the shore. Coast, shores and beaches are active zones that are eroded by waves, winds and tectonic plate movement. Coasts are active places and the location of
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Chapter 13 Key Terms 1. Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim scholar, is recognized for his written archives of his travels from the Islamic lands of China to Spain and western Sudan. 2. A biome located on Earth’s surface known as the tropics is the part in the middle of the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. These lands usually experience a wide assortment of weather and monsoons. 3. A monsoon is a time period that consists of rainy and dry seasons which is caused by a recurrent wind. 4. A Muslim
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Asthenosphere: a layer of ‘plastic’ semi-solid rock in the lower mantle. Continental drift: the separating of continents by drifting across the oceans. Magnetic striping: patterns of magnetism trapped in rocks on each side of plate boundaries. Ocean trench: a deep trench in the ocean floor that is much deeper than the rest of the ocean floor. Plate tectonics: the theory that the Earth’s crust is cracked into many large pieces that move on the asthenosphere. Rifting: the process of continents breaking
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What does globalization mean to me, my family, and my country? Globalization, the word that we can almost find on everyday’s newspaper, is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Every country is going globalization. A lot of companies want to join the globalization. People are overwhelmed with information from all over the world every day. What exactly can globalization bring to us? To me, globalization means a mixture of multi-culture and multi-background. When Internet began to rise in our country
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What I Think of Globalization Have you ever imagine the time when the world was divided into parts and every part was closed? I believe the answer is no. Nowadays our life is more convenient as we can communicate with people outside our countries, go abroad easily and even buy things from most places around the world at home through Internet. If you think you are one of those people who have benefit from all these changes, then you should thank for the globalization. It brings us a lot of changes
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CEO’s and unemployment due to outsourcing. Globalization damages developing countries because many young people work in sweatshops, which damages their health and development. These young boys and girls have little opportunity to develop into better human beings. They are subject to work during their development stages, instead of education. Ha-Joon Chang, a former consultant to the World Bank wrote a book on the myth of free trade and describes a situation involving his son who is six years old. “If
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Developing countries and developed countries differ greatly when it comes to the role that women play in the society, politics and economics. In fact, what seems to distinguish developing countries most from developed ones is the education level, responsibilities, quality of life, legal rights, economic status and occupation,(if any) of the women in that country. For example, in the developing country of India, women are very low on the totem pole of society, while in a more developed country
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