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Chapter 1 Page 2 - 2 views

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Because these privileges were passed on primarily through inheritance, they tended to constrain social mobility—although without preventing it, since they could also be bought or sold. Thus individuals and groups
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This source reveals a multitude of social, economic, political causes and effects of the French Revolution. The source describes the harsh daily lives of both rural and urban people and how they were affected by the government and the economy in everyday life, as well as the difficult strict "caste system". It also gives a perspective on the "social unrest" and the political responses of the government to those small revolts. It shows the mistrustful relationship between the government and the common people and the means for the government attempting to maintain the satisifaction of the people.

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Facts On File History Online - 0 views

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This source reveals internal apsects of Africa's trade that includes salt and sugar production, gold exports, and the slave trade. It describes the trade within regions of Africa and why Africa must rely on trade; as well as the trade with European and the network systems they developed. The source also compares and contrasts European and African trade from the efficieny and the amont of products to the specific topic of slave trade.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This source reveals internal apsects of Africa's trade that includes salt and sugar production, gold exports, and the slave trade. It describes the trade within regions of Africa and why Africa must rely on trade; as well as the trade with European and the network systems they developed. The source also compares and contrasts European and African trade from the efficieny and the amont of products to the specific topic of slave trade.</div>

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Office of Tibet New York > www.tibetoffice.org/en - 0 views

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Inner Mongolia is notching up faster economic growth than any other region of China
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Genghis Khan theme park is run by the Donglian Group, a privately owned conglomerate of construction, property and education businesses based in Ordos City
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Local Darkhats complain they have been ill-compensated for the loss of their land. They are particularly incensed by tourists being diverted to the theme park, which obscures the mausoleum in a separate enclosure behind it
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road built by the Donglian Group linking up the two sites has covered a sacred spot where the mausoleum once stood before the communist government built a much grander one on the present site in 1956.
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to fear that Mongolia might eventually go the way of Inner Mongolia, the only difference being that instead of swallowing Mongolia, China will in effect rule it by controlling its economy.  
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symbol of stirring nationalism in Mongolia is Genghis Khan
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He is glorified for uniting China, but his armies' forays as far as the Rhine and his butchery of Muslims are never mentioned.
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Zhang Qian's Western Expedition - 0 views

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The Xiongnu detained Zhang Qian for over ten years and gave him a wife from their own people, by whom he had a son
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  adaptation of cultures?
  
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Indian History Sourcebook: Ashoka, King of Behar: The Rock Edicts, c. 257 BCE - 1 views

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became a convert to Buddhism about 257 B.C
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pillars
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Nor is this to be attained by a great man only, because even by the small man who chooses to exert himself immense heavenly bliss may be won.
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My neighbors too should learn this lesson
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his purpose must be written on the rocks, both afar off and here
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virtues of the Law of Piety which must be practiced
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  virtues and laws typically in Legalist's aspects overrule each other
  
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command of His Sacred and Gracious Majesty the King
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  purpose of edict and original "author"
  
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I am ready to do the people's business in all places
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I never feel full satisfaction in my efforts and dispatch of business
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  relation back to Buddhism-the object is to end desire to obtain nirvana
  
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I make some happy here, they may in the next world gain heaven
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  Rebirth-nirvana
  
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free of religious cesses and declared entitled to the eighth share of the produce claimed by the Crown.
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Aristotelian philosophy: ethics and ... - Google Books - 0 views

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  His resources of primary sources
  
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  Marx agrees with Aristotle's view of a good lifestyle similar to that of Xunzi of China in 250 b.c that "human goodness" can be obtained throught progress and freedom
  
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British Museum - The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III - 3 views

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military campaigns
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Tiglathpileser I - 2 views

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beginning of my government
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1115-1077 BC
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Ashur and the great gods who have enlarged my kingdom, who have given me strength and power as my portion, commanded me to extend the territory of their (the gods') country, putting into my hand their powerful weapons, the cyclone of battle.
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Assyria I added more land, to its people I added more people, enlarging the boundaries of my land and conquering all (neighboring?) territories.
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army of twenty thousand men
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I conquered Qummuh to its whole extent, and carried off their booty, their goods, and their property; I burned their cities with fire, destroyed, and devastated.
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t traversed Kashiari, an almost impassable region
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aged battle in Qummuh with these five kings and their twenty thousand soldiers and accomplished their defea
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I took away as prisoners and added to the people of my country.
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conquered the land of Qummuh
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account of King Til. about the conquering and expansion

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ABC-CLIO: World History: Ancient: Entry Display - 0 views

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main catalysts that enabled the Hyksos to conquer the Nile Delta were the internal dissent among the Egyptians themselves, a counterrevolt of the nobility, and a weakening of the power of the pharaohs.
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  structural problems of the state
  
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The instability of pharohs' power and instability of evironment and population lead to the cultural exchange between conquerors and the conquered of the Egyptians

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