.... Europe, Asia and Africa. They converted to their religion wherever they went. About A.D. 700 the Islam reached North Africa and most of Southeast Asia. Centuries later it came to Southern and Eastern Europe, West and East Africa, South Asia and it reached even China about A.D. 1000. This spreading religion is a perfect example of diffusion processes, particularly spatial diffusion. The first center was at Medina in Arabia, but it was moved to Damascus and finally to Baghdad. The Islam was carried by any man of this religion, no matter if he was a child, soldier, teacher or even the sultan. Not only the Islam fit in the definiti .....

.... of art, predominantly paintings augmented by small holdings in sculpture and embellished art objects. The works consist of three distinct collections: European Masters, Russian Icons and American Artists. Each collection boasts unique and priceless representations of the specific genre. In the European Masters collection, Rembrandt’s Saint Bartholomew is the only painting by that Dutch artist on display at any museum in San Diego! First, let us take a look at the famous painting, Our Lady Of Jerusalem. It is a seventeenth century panel painting of tempera and gold on wood. The colors are of dark shades and very little backgrou .....

.... power ,with veto over laws passed by state legislatures .The President and cabinet would be elected by legislature. The national judiciary would be elected by legislature , and their would be a "Council of Revision" with power to veto laws of Congress. Delegates from New Jersey , New York and Delaware did not agree to the Virginia Plan due to the great power delegated to the national government . William Paterson of New Jersey submitted a counterproposal .The New Jersey Plan proposed a one-house legislature, with equal state representation regardless of population. Congress had some legislative power, including levying som .....

.... the Southern people still remembered how they were treated by the northern people. In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal Government, centered in Washington D.C., was changing. The Northern and Mid-Western States were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. The Southern States were losing political power. Just as the original thirteen colonies fought for their independence almost 100 years earlier, the Southern States felt a growing need for freedom from the central Federal authority in Washington D.C. They felt that each State should make its own laws. This issue was called "St .....

.... was called that because of a massive drought that hit during the Great Depression years. Winds carried all of the top soil away and blocked roads. Some people were stranded inside their houses for a few hours until the wind carried the sand away from the doors. Neighbors threw parties to help friends out. The parties were a way to get food and a smile. People waited in huge lines out side of shelters waiting for a table. There was lots of hunger in the depression A few people profited from the Depression but most were left with little money. Every life was touched. People dated their life around it. Even kids went to work as n .....

.... and judicial branches, The Articles created an inefficient committee system branching out of Congress. Most importantly, any amendment to the required the ratification by all the states, a measure that virtually eliminated any chance of change. The negatives of The Articles gradually magnified. The British refused to evacuate from forts in the American Old Northwest. Finally, Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts symbolized the feebleness of the nation, and inadequacy of the . Although, some states opposed a radical change in governmental form , it was inevitable by 1787. The provided effective management of expansion fo .....

.... 115).” The soldier would march threw battlefields where dead men, horses, and smashed artillery were scattered about in utter confusion; the Blue and the Gray mixed-their bodies so bloated, distorted, and discolored from decomposition, that they were basically unrecognizable(Mohr, 326). There was also the duties of the officers. “Often when a detachment was on scout, there were no men left in camp to release the pickets, and they had to remain on post for seventy-two hours at a stretch(History of the Service, 129).” Marching, shooting, charging, scouting; they were all hard assignments, but they were important to the w .....

.... unless the Roosevelt administration takes measures to ensure black employment in defense industries; Roosevelt agrees to establish Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). 1942: The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is organized in Chicago. 1943: Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause black leaders to ask their followers to be less demanding in asserting their commitment to ; A. Philip Randolph breaks ranks to call for civil disobedience against Jim Crow schools and railroads. 1946: The Supreme Court, in Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia, rules that state laws requiring racial segregation on buses violates the Con .....

.... to the myriad of Nine of ten published texts are private letters or documents of every conceivable documents and other communications of daily life. they reflect the quotidian affairs of government, commerce, and personal life in much the same way that modern records do. From the papyri, moreover, have come abundant new works of religious literature not only for Judaism and Christianity but also for traditional Greek and Roman cults, for Manicheism, and for the early history of Islam. The papyri are also our most important source for the actual working of law in ancient societies. . In addition to the papyri, the Michig .....

.... several ways. The 19th and 20th centuries displayed a great amount of expansion and the countries of the West were heavily responsible for this experience. Japan, however, played a key role in the history of imperialism as they joined in the fight for world power. First of all, Japan’s experience is different from the West’s in that it was more of a reactionary decision to expand, while the West had strong, rational motives to do so. Secondly, Japan’s choices in altering Korea’s society by such drastic measures are more powerful than how most of the West approached controlling their many colonies. Thirdly, the West did .....