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Hydroponic culture has been around for centuries. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Floating Gardens of China are two of the earliest hydroponics systems. Another example is the floating gardens of the Aztecs. When the Europeans came to the Americas, they were shocked to see trees floating in the middle of a lake. The Aztecs had found a way to create floating beds that could support the trees and suspend the roots in the water. The famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon are thought to have used…

Buddhism: (1 - 1750) Buddhism originated in N. India, and is traced back to Siddhartha Guatama’s search for an antidote to end suffering in the 5th century BCE. Early Buddhism was spread slowly along the trade routes by Buddhist merchants and monks. In the 3rd century CE, Ashoka, a ruler of the Mauryan Empire, converted to Buddhism. He did not forcefully convert his people, but he sent missionaries to East Asia and left edicts throughout the empire. Buddhism eventually made it’s way into places…

Southeast Asia was a vibrant region even before the arrival of Western influences. Its inhabitants had a healthy existence based mostly on trade relations with other established civilizations such as China, India, and other merchants that travel the straits. Even after the arrival of the Western states, influences were centered more on maintaining the exchange of resources from Southeast Asian countries to their mother states. Meanwhile, the race for territorial expansion by the West was a…

ssie Sisavat Professor Duarte Hist 51 October 12 2015 Vermeer’s Hat The book informs us that the Vermeer’s pictures capture how the world was based on global trade. It depicts how the Dutch trading company was a major part of the trade. The picture that Vermeer display shows for instance a European explorers receive from the Indigenous people and ships sailing to China to build a strong trading connection between the European and Asian empire. The world that Vermeer’s was living in was an…

The Indian Ocean trade was system that allowed the countries in the Indian Ocean to participate in a symbiotic relationship. The trade of many extravagant goods encouraged the surrounding countries to develop relationships between each other which lead to sharing discoveries and goods. Then, when the Portuguese arrived in the Indian Ocean there was an introduction of a power arrangement. Ultimately, the Portuguese disrupted a harmonious system of advancements and ruined the dynamics of the…

From 1450 to 1750, the Indian Ocean trade network had many changes and continuities. One continuity is that the Indian Ocean trade network remained spreading goods from one place to another. However, the methods that were used to trade these goods along the trade route had a significant change. The analysis of the changes and continuities over the time period 1450 to 1750 can explain how the trade was affected politically, economically, and culturally. The Indian Ocean trade network had changes…

office buildings. The streets are filled with people rushing to get to stores for their over-the-top sales. Women are strolling along the streets with a child or two with them, while holding shopping bags, from the finest stores in the city. Elegant Silks is one of the top stores in the city, also one of the most expensive. The store takes up four floors, all covered with sheer glass windows. The letters are in gold cursive and take up the entire width of the entrance over the glass doors. We…

In the article “Silk Parachute”, the author John MacPhee states about his recall of his memory with his mother when he was young. MacPhee is a writer who publishes a book every year. He is one of the successful writers in America. Macphee mentions that he had lots of beautiful memories of him with his mother when he was a child. In the article, he also points out that the significant recall about his birthday when he was eleven years old. His mother took him to the observation deck to see…

In the stories “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “The Story of an Hour”, and “Silk Stockings” it was all about women who wanted something. What they truly wanted more than anything was freedom. They wanted freedom from their home, freedom to do what they wanted, and most importantly freedom from their husbands. Each women felt trapped and they wanted to get away from the life they had now. To receive freedom was impossible for women before the 1900s. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman who just had a baby…

Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta are two very famous explores who are known for traveling great distances during a time when such a thing was unheard of, and who kept detailed logs of their journeys. Ibn Battuta’s journey was based off of his religion, and his desire to visit all of the major religious sites and meet important religious leaders. He traveled a total of 75,000 miles over the course of 29 years. Marco Polo was an Italian traveler who claims to have met and become close to Kublai Khan,…