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Turks moved from Central Asia to Middle West in the eleventh CE century. One of the tribes called the Seljuk Turks, occupied Persia and then moved west slowly. Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE is where the Seljuk Turks met Byzantine emperor and his army. The Byzantine emperor was killed, and army was destroyed. After taken over Byzantine the Seljuk Turks moved into Anatolia. Moving south again the were able to occupy the Holy Land. Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or…

Qingming Festival is the masterpiece of Zhang Zeduan who is a painting artist in the Song Dynasty. The painting vividly captures the thriving life of people from Bianjing (Kaifeng), capital of the Song Dynasty. The entire painting was painted in hand scroll format, deployed the method of scatter perspective mapping, and bringing in varied landscape and numerous human characters all dressed differently. Moreover, with the development of a population of more than one million, it was really a…

Sam Madrid Mrs. Kaminski English 10 3 3 June 2016 Dope Report Book Report A Summer of Silk Moths was Written by Margaret Willey with 246 pages. This book was a fiction type. Pete, Nore, and Abe were the main three characters in this book. Pete is a 17 year old boy. Pete’s summer is dedicated to helping build a nature preserve for Paul. Pete is clueless at first that Nora is Paul’s daughter. Nora is very torn and upset, she is also known as the grumpy character in this book. She doesn't…

In the two stories “A Pair of Silk Stocking” by Kate Chopin and “A&P” by John Updike, there seems to be a common theme among both of them. In the two stories both the main characters seem to struggle between individual impulse and responsibility. We can see both Mrs. Sommers from “A Pair of Silk Stockings” and Sammy from “A&P” struggling with it throughout the story, this is present to the reader through their actions. In the stories, we know that both of the characters share a common class.…

lasting on the Silk Road with their history, geography and trade. There were more differences than similarities between the two. Things such as geography are obviously different but there is more to it like history and trading. The Silk Road started at 200 bc while Mali was founded before 1000 ad. The Silk Road traded slaves, spices, cloth, and other goods. Mali traded gold mainly but other goods as well. A clear difference is, the history of both the Silk Road and Mali. The Silk Road started…

Observation 3 Often, a college preparation process can mean acquiring many material things. Generally, how you go about preparing depends on whether a student plan to attend a technical school, community college or a four year university. The supplies needed may change depending on what higher education institution one pursues. When leaving for college, students want any and everything that they can get for their dorm or apartment. Most students don’t look at what is a needed, but more about…

way they speak to each other. During the middle ages in England it was a dangerous place. At first it was a very isolated place until later it became more connected to the established global trade along the Silk Roads. The increase in trade connected Europe to places along the Silk Roads. This was initiated by non-Christian merchants. These non-Christian merchants were known as Jews and Muslims who lived in the Middle East at this time. Jewish merchants were very well known at this time…

Chinese to be kind and love one another. They created the most elegant and elaborate potteries and carvings. Chinese invented paper and had an advance and standardized system of writing. Most of their contributions are still used today like gunpowder, silk and paper. Both of these cultures were devoted to religion, philosophy and their family. The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions show cases their collections in a way that one can perceive their value for religion and the…

What helped the Qin Dynasty reunify China after the Era of the Warring States? After the era of the Warring States the Qin ruler managed to reunify the country by a combination of military force and administrative reorganization (pg176.) China became a unified empire after the six largest states surrendered or fell to Qin armies. `Shih Huang-di administrative gifts were tremendous and his personality defects were huge. The administration was unified on Legalist principles by the emperor who…

birth of economics, and Venetian trade. As well as how important Cyprus is and how Shakespeare used it to demonstrate the effect of having emotions rather than logic take control of Othello's actions. Venice became such an important trade route on the silk road, and influenced the history of economics. Venice became a leading international exporter because it was in between western Europe and Constantinople. Which was a perfect geographical spot since everyone had to go through Venice to get to…