Cloth of gold

Mrs. Johnson must have biased Dee than Maggie. As the mother, she is willing to forgive and welcome her daughter even she didn’t return home such a long time. She talks about her daughter with all her proud. She imagines that one day by Dee’s succeed, they will appear in a TV show, and she will receive gratefulness from Dee. In her eyes, “Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure” (418). Dee is characterized by good looks, ambition, and education, representing young generation

Have you ever wanted to know how Ancient Ghana became so wealthy? The trick is trade. Salt and gold were the key ingredients so the civilization could prosper, and also how ancient Ghana became one of the richest civilizations in 300 CE -1240 CE. Ancient Ghana was believed to be founded in 200- 300 although we still aren’t sure exactly when the empire was established. A tribe of people called the Soninke formed to create a union and an outsider from a far away land became the king. The government

Formal Analysis of The Annuciation The painting The Annunciation (Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland) was made in Netherlands, or possibly France, in the 1380s, using tempera and oil with gold on wood panel. A vertical composition of about 31.43 × 40.32 cm, the sacred iconography depicts the biblical scene of the Archangel Gabriel, sent by God, announcing to the Virgin that she would soon give birth to Christ. The artist, who was commissioned to draw this piece, is unknown. The patron probably commissioned

Existing from 16th to the 19th centuries. The atlantic slave trade also known as the Transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved african people, mainly from africa to the americas,and then their sale there. The slave trade used mainly the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. existed from 16th to the 19th centuries.The development of colonies created by European countries is one of the main causes of the trade. There was a demand for many labourers

heart. The heart is told to hold the soul, so they couldn’t remove it. After this, they stuff the body with cloth and sew the skin up. They put chemicals on the body to dry it out, and set for 40 days. The body was then covered in oils, precious stones, and amulets and bound with longs strips of cloth over and over again. A highly decorated mask was set on the face and wrapped again in cloth. This whole process took about 70

During the eighth century throughout the late sixteenth century, one trade route entranced everyone involved from the Mediterranean to the Africa’s. The Trans – Saharan Trade was an important trade route that ran across the Sahara between the Mediterranean countries and West Africa. In the beginning stages of the Trans- Saharan trade many small trade routes were being used throughout the period. this is because travelling across the Sahara before the domestication of the camel was difficult. The

Religion in many cultures dictates the way you live, think, and write. The Puritans base every part of their daily life on a stringent plan dictated by their beliefs in God. Most Puritan writers write in a very similar style; plain poetry style, metaphorical comparing, and a very “God driven” writing style. However there are two writers of this culture that stand out , the first one is Edward Taylor and his poem “Housewifery” and the second is Anne Bradstreet and her poem “ To My Dear and Loving

Slavery became associated with people from Africa because Europeans could obtain skilled slaves from an already established system to increase their profits. Europeans began to create agriculture plantations and had gold mines. They needed people who could work these highly important possessions. Europeans had a high demand in products that would give them a lot of money such as sugar and cotton among other crops. The labor of the plantations and the mines was a heavy job so Europeans

Ivory, gold, silver, kola nuts, cloth and enslaved people were wanted from the rest of the world from Africa. Swahili City States and Kongo were two African civilizations that had changed through cultural diffusion due to trade. Swahili City states were located on the East coast of Africa, where they traded many fascinating goods and products through the Indian Ocean. During the MIddle Ages, they traded with Persia, India, Arabia and other inland African countries. In the Great Zimbabwe, there

to the silver coin, but since the government needs the silver to pay for their taxes, many of the tillers in the soil are lowered, and less land is put into cultivation. In document 5, a writer, Xu Dunqiu Ming, says that every time that you dye a cloth with rice, wheat, chickens, or other fowl, you must pay with silver from a moneylender. And lastly, in document 6, a spanish priest is emotional about the fact that the more than 3,000 Indians are put to work when there is 326 million coins that have