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Gilgamesh |
1. The tale revolves around a legendary hero named Gilgamesh (Bilgames in Sumerian), who was said to be the king of the Sumerian city of Uruk. 2. It is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur, it is often regarded as the first great work of literature |
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Hudson Valley paintings |
1. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and the White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America. 2. The artist Thomas Cole is generally acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School |
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Description of Greece |
* This place exists before Greece (early hellenistic settlement) * The early gods in Greek mythology were females * The Roman civilization shows more masculine gods * Super oriented towards the landscape. It’s located in a place that has the best view* The city is adjusting itself to the nature that it finds |
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Law ordinance of 1785 |
1. Law passed by Congress that allowed for sales of land in the Northwest Territory and set up standards for land sale that became precedents. Among them was the idea of selling mile-square sections of land. 2. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream. The Ordinance set up a survey system that eventually covered over three-fourths of the area of the continental United States. 3. The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862. The Land Ordinance established the basis for the Public Land Survey System. |
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Homestead Act |
1. A goal to get to people to settle in the west. (Kick off the indians)-1860s 2. 1 acre=0.4 hectare 3. The grid was intended to turn the U.S. into a nation of farmers 4. An act passed by Congress in 1862 enabling persons who settled on undeveloped 160-acre tracts of land to gain title after meeting certain criteria, such as residing on and cultivating the land for five years after the initial claim. |
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Law of the Indies |
1. The Laws of the Indies (Spanish: Leyes de Indias) are the entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the American and Philippine possessions of its empire. They regulated social, political and economic life in these areas. The laws are composed of myriad decrees issued over the centuries and the important laws of the 16th century, which attempted to regulate the interactions between the settlers and natives, such as the Laws of Burgos (1512) and the New Laws (1542). 2. They [Colonists] shall try as far as possible to have the buildings all of one type for the sake of the beauty of the town. 3. Within the town, a commons shall be delimited, large enough that although the population may experience a rapid expansion, there will always be sufficient space where the people may go to for recreation and take their cattle to pasture without them making any damage. 4. Also, constructions with plazas in the middle |
