Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province in East China, running through the city are lower reaches of the Yangtze River whose estuary is not far away. Nanjing enjoys a civilization of over 6000 years and the city itself was founded 2500 years ago. Enclosed by mountains and rivers, and loc...
Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius – (a snippet of the excerpt from Goodreads) Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave countries where they had been settled for thousa...
“Distillation is a really recent development—at least in the context of our relationship to alcohol,” says Edward Slingerland, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia and the author of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization. “We've known ...
Two-hundred years ago, domestic product per capita in Western Europe, the world's most developed region, was three times higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa, the most deprived region. Today this gap has grown to 50 times higher, a "civilization bang," as Galor puts it. “Most of the...
What were the strategies used in the crusades? Define ethnic and civic nationalism and how they effect a civilization. How did the role of Pol Pot lead to the rise of Khmer Rouge? How do the IMF and World Bank promote good governance? Analyze the extent to which the First and Second Wor...
"We conducted inspections and made suggestions in developing a high-quality education system, a national public health protection network, and explore and protect traditional Chinese medicine resources," Wang said. He also noted that the CPPCC organized consultations in promoting ecological civilization...
It took us about 45 minutes to get out of the major city area, though we never really left civilization. All along the roads there were buildings or huts of some sort. People living in some way most of the way. About 30 mins out of Hanoi we stopped in some shade to get water. We...
39.Inanna.An ancient name that most likely means “lady of the heavens” in Sumerian. Inanna was also the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war. It’s a unique and beautiful name that goes back to the dawn of civilization.
Hellenism and the Near East: The term "Hellenism" refers to Greek cultural influence in the Ancient Near East and the fusion of Greek culture with a variety of cultures in that region. Hellenism created cross-cultural connections and facilitated trade and commerce throughout the Near East. ...