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    very useful in the conquering of China. You could only imagine the amount of damage these horses made during the time of warfare. With all of this said, the Yuan dynasty was very successful due to the invention of the composite bow and riding horses. The Mongols did have much success in conquering the land, but there was one piece of land that they couldn’t conquer. Many people would will say that the Mongols were like the Achilles heel of dynasties due to them not conquering Japan twice after

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    because it allowed a way for Northern Africa to trade with India without having to trade over land. The sea routes were much more extensive then the land routes, which made trading with India much easier over water than land. Wealthiness due to conquering and gaining land also was a very important achievement from Africans, as explained in Document 2. In Document 2, a

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    tribe is conquered, and all its inhabitants are annihilated” or “The tribe is conquered, and its surviving inhabitants are obliged to subordinate their wills to the will of the Conquering tribe” or “The tribe fled to an inaccessible or inhospitable region, abandoning its territory, which is appropriate by the conquering tribe” or “The tribe resists conquest and defeated its conqueror”. (Schmooker,

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    “When in Rome…………” This is something heard often. This refers to the massive power the Roman empire had for almost 2 centuries. During that time, Rome went through successive leadership within the Caesar family. These leaders were in a position to gain extremely important war victories. These victories significantly impacted Rome and Rome’s surrounding countries economically, socially, and politically for many years to come. The Punic Wars were the most significant wars that Rome fought during

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    ANSWER Q 1 1. Explain Kojeve’s metaphor of ‘overcoming the Slavish mentality’ of ‘given being’ as compared to the master’s ‘being for itself. ‘ Select a passage from Kojeve’s text and from Coates text and explain how the two passages relate to each other by demonstrating this ‘overcoming’ as metaphor and the ‘over coming.’ Coats passage an example of the overcoming process that Kojeve writes about in In Place Of Introduction. The my reading of Kojeve’s text “IN PLACE OF INTRODUCTION”, I noticed

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    this was the case, the Mongolians were far from being easygoing when conquering lands. One man named Temujin, or better known as Genghis Khan, unified the Mongolian tribes into a ferocious and violent force, which eventually resulted in the robust Mongolian Empire in 1206. His empire included many special trained soldiers that particularized in strategies such as stuffing ditches with sandbags for better attacks when conquering enemy territory. With Genghis’s help the Mongolians conquered many

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    Alexander the Great had many success in battle. He conquered many countries and places. He conquered Persia, Thebes, and India. There were some countries that put up a fight, but they were no match for Alexander the Great and his army. When he was conquering Thebes, he had them surrounded. The Thebans were stuck in their cities. He waited

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    Tangerine, Florida a small town in the middle of nowhere. Paul is a middle school boy who wears glasses that are described as coke-bottle glasses. He is known to be caring and secretive. In the novel, Tangerine, the author interprets irony and conquering fear to convey the theme of recollection and knowledge to the readers.

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    “Othering” is simply treating the a different group of people as not human or completely different, therefore not identifying[a] with them. In order for an empire to conquer another territory, they must first dehumanize or “other” the group they are conquering. Empires did this as an attempt to justify the cruel or unjust acts the would undertak[b]e on these people. Some influential empires that “othered” in order to allow for mass conquest were the Romans, Portuguese, Aztecs, and Spanish. In order for

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    strives to live as a normal without an IEP, incidents begin to occur around him that are too perfect for his brother’s life to be just accidents. In Tangerine, Edward Bloor exquisitely uses foreshadowing and motif to convey the theme of identity and conquering fear. To begin with, Bloor uses foreshadowing

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