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- 461: Why Is The World So Diverse Wh
- ... contain immense dissimilarities with it (World Book Encyclopedia 64). Other reasons for language change might have been initial migration, climate, and elite dominance. The initial migration is really a name for movement of people from Africa 100,000 years ago. Surviving traces of this migration include Basque, Caucasian, Khosian, ans Australian languages. Climate, too, is a possible cause of language dispersal. Global warming several thousand years ago opened regions north of ... and government. One country like that is India, where, even though 15 languages are constitutionally recognized, English serves as third party language. Other examples include Mandarin Chinese and Swahili, a Bantu language spoken throughout East Africa (Lingua Franca 1). Creole languages are trully phenomenons, when it comes to linguistics. They are fully formed languages that develop from pidgin (trade) language and gradually become the primary language of a linguistic community. Basically ...
- 462: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- ... He was crowned emperor in 800. After the defeat of the Lombards, there were constant conflict between the Franks and the Byzantines. The main group involved was the Saracens, who had newly arrived from North Africa. They had come to assist the rebels fight the Byzantine Empire. They had conquered Sicily and had also attacked Rome itself. Byzantine fell under the Macedonian dynasty at the same time that the Carolingian empire ... able to keep the church and state separate. In the 7th century, Arabs spread their Islamic religion as they conquered lands. United by the message of Muhammad, they banded together, and conquered all of North Africa by 700s. Only in 733, the Franks were able to stop them and drive them back over the Pyrenees, resulting in a division between the Mediterranean, the Muslim civilization from the Byzantine rival and Germanic ...
- 463: Indentured Servants and Slaves
- ... that of the indentured servant. The African slaves were first kidnapped, separating them from their family, and brought aboard a slave vessel. The infamous “middle passage” would then begin. This was the horrid passage from Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas, in which many slaves were driven to suicide. The slaves were chained into smaller spaces than that of the indentured servants. They were beaten and often had to spend ... endured harsh physical labor and hardships, but at the end of the term they were free to do what ever they wanted. Slaves on the other hand were unwillingly torn away from their lives in Africa, brought over to the New World, and forced to work until they died. The indentured servant in the 17th century and African slave in the 18th shared a similar life. They both had were forced ...
- 464: Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
- ... were only thirteen years old. Their parents arranged the marriage, and they had four children. Gandhi was extremely intelligent and studied law in London. In 1893 Gandhi was required to do legal work in South Africa which was under British control. Because he claimed his rights as a British subject, he was constantly discriminated against due to his Indian race. He witnessed malicious discrimination toward people of the Indian race by the British. As a result of being outraged by this hateful discrimination, Gandhi decided to stay in South Africa. His one-year term of legal work turned into twenty-one years to proclaim and work for Indian rights. He first started a newspaper called “Indian Opinion”, and he also led campaigns boosting Indian Rights ...
- 465: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... hasn't been a witch and hardly a halter in our family from that day to this, and that is one hundred and eighty-nine years. The first slave brought into New England out of Africa by your progenitors was an ancestor of mine- for I am of a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel. I'm not one of your sham meerschaums that you can color in a ... laid under tribute to furnish her forth. Her linen is from Belfast, her robe is from Paris, her lace is from Venice, or Spain, or France, her feathers are from the remote regions of Southern Africa, her furs from the remoter region of the iceberg and the aurora, her fan from Japan, her diamonds from Brazil, her bracelets from California, her pearls from Ceylon, her cameos from Rome. She has gems ...
- 466: General Denis Sassou Nguesso and The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
- ... in neighbouring states and moved from an essentially-national power struggle to a wider regional conflict. This process was largely assisted by the legacy of recent military struggles in the Great Lakes area of central Africa. Battling alongside Lissouba and Sassou Nguesso were allegedly remnants of the defeated former Forces Armees du Zaire (FAZ), Forces Armees du Rwanda (FAR) and the Hutu Interahamwe militia. Analysts say the existence of these groups ... Lissouba's purchase of four Russian-made helicopter gunships was matched in the last stages of the war by the appearance of MiG-21s in the service of Sassou's militia. Congo's position as Africa's fourth-largest oil producer, with vast untapped reserves, means French and US oil companies also took a keen interest in developments, regional observers say. The mediation effort Reluctant to become involved, but anxious to ...
- 467: Atlantis
- ... resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa. This was the island of Atlantis. Atlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a ... resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa. This was the island of Atlantis. Atlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a ...
- 468: Ebonics
- ... Africans began to speak better English but there were still word that were never spoken correctly or said in proper form. In Georgia and other southern states there were blacks who were not brought from Africa and quite a few knew how to speak standard English. Around 1858 over 400 slave from Africa were brought straight to Georgia and none of them knew a word of English.(Smitherman) Being that these two groups merged together they adapted each others language whether it was correct or incorrect On the ...
- 469: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change The purpose of Cry, the Beloved Country, is to awaken the population of South Africa to the racism that is slowly disintegrating the society and its people. Alan Paton designs his work to express his views on the injustices and racial hatred that plague South Africa, in an attempt to bring about change and understanding. The characters that he incorporates within his story, help to establish a sense of the conditions and hardships that the country is experiencing, and the presence ...
- 470: Ancient Rome
- ... senate outlawed the dictatorship. After Caesar's death, his adopted grandson, Octavian, formed the second triumvirate with Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Antony ruled the east, Octavian the west and Italy, and Lepidus ruled Africa. The second triumvirate was constituted by an act of state to reconstitute the state. They were given five years, but this was later extended. The three crushed all of their opponents, including Brutus, Cassius, and ... of Rome, where, in the fifth century, sacked it. The Empire continued to fall to barbarians. The east and west sides of the Empire were in a virtual state of war. In 429, Vandals conquered Africa. In 410, Britain fell. In 451, the Huns took most of Europe. When Atilla the Hun came to Rome, Pope Leo was able to convince him to spare the city. In 455, Vandals came and ...
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