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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters display the classic romantic relationship that is often portrayed as what a couple should strive for. Thus, many of the ideas presented in the tragedy about “true love” are romanticized in modern society, leading to an idealized toxicity in which the participants are extremely codependent and fail to take notice of their own personal well being. Juliet’s toxic love for Romeo manifests in her desire to always have him by her side in a way…

afterlife. The ancient Egyptians also had pottery, surgeries, and calendars. Ancient China had a different way of thinking. The ancient Chinese built the silk road, the silk road was a trade route that went through India, then Persia, and it ended up in eastern Europe. It was called the silk road because most the things the ancient China traded and sold was silk. Ancient China also had many inventions, some are the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing. Mesopotamia also had some…

When these two rivers merge they create a farmers paradise. The easy access to water makes irrigation easy as well as fertilization. Another contributor to China’s economy was the invention of silk. Silk was a highly valuable material that China used for trade. Because silk was so popular, this lead to the Silk Road; a trading rout between China and other civilizations. As a result, this trading caused cultural immersion, making Chinese culture more diverse and bringing in new…

In the early years of the earth, the people who lived here were called hunters and gatherers. The only way for this group of people to survive was to hunt and gather their food. They relied heavily on the animals and plants that provided them with a source of food. The only downfall to this life, was that they could not settle in one place for very long. The changes in the weather would cause the animals that these people hunted to migrate, which meant that the people had to follow, or else they…

due to the population decrease; socially there was a strong social hierarchy before and after those two major events. Economic changes were numerous. An increase in commerce began as the Crusaders came across a variety of unfamiliar luxury goods (silk, sugar, spices, etc.). After the Crusades, Europe was in demand for more of those items ,sand, therefore…

the weakness of the Western Europeans and the Islamic East, The Ottoman Empire took advantage of the conflicts they had, and used that opportunity to expand in the empire. They also took control of Silk Road, a network of trade router from Far East to Europe and Africa that helped in the trade of tea, silk, spices, coffee, cotton. Therefore, Europe had to circumnavigate the Ottoman Empire to found a way to take control again. Christopher Columbus and his generation wanted to explore the…

What steps were taken for the Roman empire to come to power? The development of the roman empire went through different stages and conflicts. The discoveries and new implementations that were founded allowed the progress of a civilization for their economic, philosophical and political standings that would be adapted into cultures from there onward. The beginning of the roman empire began with the establishment of the city of Rome by Romulus in 753 BCE where it started as a modest city into a…

Merchants in the village sold their goods every day. They traded gems, silks, and other luxuries from Genoa and Venice, that came from the ports of Italy. Italy traded with the east merchants. They quickly learned how to get things cheaper and sold them for more. Later on kings made merchants pay money to them. This was…

Madeleine Bell Per. 3 3.1 Unlike the Classical Era, trade networks in the post-Classical Era expanded in geographical range. They expanded due to the growth of trade in luxury goods such as silk and cotton textiles, the innovations in transportation and commercial technologies such as caravan organization, the use of a compass, larger ship designs,new forms of credit, and commercial infrastructures like the Grand Canal in China. 3.1.0.1 New technologies that accompanied these…

Laura Esquivel’s film adaptation of Like Water for Chocolate and Kate Chopin’s stories, A Pair of Silk Stockings and The Storm, share a similar theme. They all focus on the complexity of women’s struggles to discover their freedom and individuality against social norms and traditions. At first they all place their desires aside because they feel a sense of duty whether they are forced or self imposed. Eventually, each woman takes a step to fulfill their desires if only for one brief time. In…