Marco Polo

Criterion A: Investigating My goal was to create a family tree in my extended family for as far as my grandparents remembered. But once I realized that the tree wasn 't going to turn out as big as I thought it would be I decided to change my topic to something that I loved-food! I changed my topic to the history of pasta. This opened up doors that lead to new things that I could research and a much more vast ground for me to start my project on. I researched things like all the different types…

Interchangeability is the idea of being able to communicate back and forth, like Marco, polo. Cultural transmission is when a language is learned by being surrounded by other fluent users of the language. Arbitrariness is when a signal has no logic or relationship to the meaning, or a word that means something else in another language.…

the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road was not only a route for trading goods and religions; it was an open door for disease to spread rapidly across a large area. There were many items that were available from many different merchants. As told by Marco Polo, the merchants were very…

Throughout the course of human history there have been accounts of a beast faster than a deer, brave enough to come out the victor in a battle with a lion, hardly seen by mankind, and armed with a single horn growing out of its forehead. Without a fossil record to either confirm or dissipate these accounts. Could it be possible that the animal in question is merely a figure of our imagination? Should these accounts be put upon the shelves of mythology with the tales of Zeus and Odin? This topic…

In document 9, a map is shown that describes the Muslim sea and land trade routes. It shows extensive trade networks the spread all across Europe, Africa, and Asia. It shows the area of influence that is offered through trade. In document 6, Marco Polo, an italian merchant, describes the situation of trade in the city of Tabriz. He stated that Tabriz very noble one and that since it was quite appropriately situated for trade, merchants from numerous parts of Europe traveled there to purchase…

We played tag, Marco Polo, and pretended we were mermaids. My younger sister Lauren was off playing with her little friend. She was in the shallow section because she didn’t know how to swim yet. Meanwhile, I was with my older sister Rachel and my friends in the deep…

Posting stations used for the great Khan’s in the empire. The government had to be advanced to have been able to create communication systems(yarn system) like this. The information from this document is most likely accurate because it was written by Marco Polo, who was exploring for Europe, which meant when he reported back to the Europe with his finds, he had to be truthful. (Doc 8) The Mongols showed religious tolerance and believed that men…

1939; the Germans planned an unprovoked attack on Poland, then Britain and France got involved after Adolf Hitler – the German leader of the Nazis – refused to abort his attack on Poland which developed the warfare of Europe. Another reason was the Marco Polo bridge incident, which lead to warfare between China and Japan. A small Japanese force searched for a lost soldier, but when they arrived, they discovered that the town was being occupied by a Chinese garrison, who denied the Japanese…

a 5 paragraph-long essay that examines how and why the Europeans impacted(greatly) the world! There were many audacious European explorers, who took lengthy and harsh voyages around the world. Some examples of these people are: Vasco de Gama, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, John Cabot, and Bartolomeo Diaz. Each are known for one or more major discoveries that impact heavily today’s time. For example, Christopher Columbus “discovered” the New World,…

“Die Welle” is written by Ron Jones,Dennis Gansel and Peter Thorwarth and directed by Dennis Gansel. The movie is about a high school teacher,Rainer (Jürgen Vogel), who is giving autocracy lectures instead of anarchy which he has assigned to give. The ordinary story turns out be a very deep critique of autocracy with his extraordinary teaching method, which I will explain when I go deep into it’s relation with elements of fascism. Students who are sure about Nazi regime could never happen…