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    The Byzantine Empire played a critical role in preserving and transmitting the ancient Greco-Roman civilization. With laws, culture, language, worldview, and a special relationship with Russia, the Byzantine Empire is an important topic in world history. Laws played a huge role in preserving the Greco-Roman civilization. The Byzantine Empire had an absolute ruler named Justinian. During his reign, Justinian developed a law code derived from Roman laws. Three men were appointed to review,…

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    Throughout of Animism and The Alphabet, David Abram has mentioned about the alphabet’s partial fault of disconnection from the natural world. He has a suggestion as alphabet has been shaped by natural influences around it. For instance; he has talked about our own tracks, our footprints, our handprints in mud or ash pressed upon the rock. These are the early marks that people used to copy these distinctive prints and scratches made by other animals to follow an animal to hunt or follow their own…

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    Linear B Research Paper

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    Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest confirmed form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1450 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language. It is also the only one of the three "Linears" to be deciphered, by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris. The script was discovered by…

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    Chechen Language

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    1. What is the demography of the language? The Chechen language, or Tsjetsjeens, is a branch of Vainakh of the Northeast Caucasian language family (Nakh-Daghestanian) and has an approximate number of 1.2 – 1.5 million speakers. According to Thompson (2013), the language can be found in the Republic of Chechnya (Russia), Dagestan, Georgia, and can also be found in Central Asian countries like Turkey and Jordan as a result of the Chechen diaspora. 2. What historical events led to the physical…

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    Ancient Greece; a land of wonders. In this presentation, I will explain the social, political, religious, intellectual, technological, and economical aspects of Ancient Greece. You will learn how the Greeks lived, and what the Greeks did. Learn some of the inventions, philosophers, writers, and historians from Ancient Greece. There is also information about Greek social structure, government, wars, and trade. There is so much to learn about Greece! There were different…

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    they had ever known (a.k.a. the Great Depression). In his first 100 days of office, he passed more laws and got more done than Hoover had in his whole 4 years. One of the programs he passed was NRA. This was a part of something people called FDR’s Alphabet Programs. Each program was an acronyms such as CCC, WPA, TVA, etc. Some of these programs provided relief to the unemployed, others were made to watch the stock market. Although, the major goal of these programs was to improve the situation in…

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    Phonemic awareness skills transfer more easily if the languages have similar alphabets, roots, orthography, and phonemes (Moughamian, Rivera & Francis, 2009). Moreover, Spanish language reading comprehension skills tend to enhance English reading skills because students use comprehension strategies they already know from their native language. The same alphabet is used in both languages, with Spanish having only one extra letter (ñ), and accents marks. Teachers can…

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    Speaking is one of the first things we learn in life. As a child, we start acquiring the words automatically and as we grow up and go to school, we develop our speaking ability by expanding our knowledge of the language and we learn writing as well. Both Speaking and writing are essential to communicate with others, and, in any language, there are different registers used by its speakers. These registers vary based on our age, proficiency of the language and the environment. The way we speak and…

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    Greek Achievements

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    Greeks achievement in Art, this paper looks at: what was considered Art in Ancient Greece, Famous Greek art pieces, different forms of Art like: Pottery, Sculpture, The Human Body and Architectural structures. For Greek literature, we will examine the alphabet, Greek writers like Homer, Greek Tragedies and Comedies, poetry and the theatre. In respect to scientific achievements, accomplishments in Medicine, Physics, Biology, and zoology are discussed. Details about the renowned discoverers and…

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    Explain how the Greek Underworld helped to shape and dictate the behaviours of the Greeks. The Underworld played an important role in the lives of the Ancient Greeks and was a constant influence on their behaviours. The Underworld was the centre of Ancient Greek beliefs concerning the afterlife, and was thought to be ruled by the god, Hades and his wife, Persephone. The belief of the Ancient Greeks was that when someone died their psyche, the Greek word for soul, left their body and was…

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