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    Suleiman the Magnificent

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    to internal attacks. Interaction with other sectors was not too often which helps people be in an environment where everyone follows the same religion. There is also almost no interference from the government on how the leader chooses to run the Millets. Things like taxes and sometimes even laws aren’t checked by the government because there aren’t any rules against having different styles of living. Travelers from different religious backgrounds can now enter a land where they don’t have to be feared

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    Rise Of The Ottoman Empire

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    generous. The religious tolerance was nonetheless still imperfect, it was essentially a system to maintain the minorities calm and reduce the cost of local utilities. Tolerance was not without purpose and it was only for the people of the book. The millet system allowed for similar religions to rule areas under their own law. Similar religions being Christianity and Judaism for the

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    Sinai Trejo At the end of World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided into two separate countries along the 38th parallel, Russia occupied the north and the United States occupied the south. (Korean War) Five years after the end of the Second World War, after multiple border skirmishes that left about 10,000 Koreans dead, a new war begins on an East Asian peninsula. (Korean War) The Korean War illustrates the idea of Western power or democracy, versus communism in a war that was fought in a country

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    Archaeologists often associate regions such as the Near East and Egypt, the Neolithic period and the formation of states often pose a pivotal point for many civilizations. At a high-level, the Neolithic period represents an era where humans began utilizing relatively contemporary hand tools. Examples include, but are not limited to, weaponry and chisels. The Neolithic era started approximately in 10,000 BC, and ended as late as 2500 BC (Department of Asian Art 2000). The concept of a state and

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    of the central values that contributed to both empire’s success was religion: Islam specifically. Religion was key to their successes because it not only united people of all different religious backgrounds, but it also played a central role in the millet system, which was implemented by Suleyman the magnificent. Islam is a monotheistic faith founded by the prophet Mohammad. His followers, called Muslims, spread the religion throughout the Middle East, Asia and parts of Europe and Africa. The religion

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    The process of expansion is an important part of any empire and with it comes many byproducts. One such byproduct is. how to govern over the diverse people, who have just been conquered? Two such Empires that had to deal with such a question were the Ottoman and Spanish Empires. The Ottoman Empire, replaced the Byzantine Empire as the major power in the middle east. As in expanded it had to deal with the diverse populations from europe, to asia, to northern africa. The Spanish Empire, rooted in the

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    Eating behaviours expand throughout an individual’s life. Children acquire what, when, and how much to eat through direct experiences with food and by perceiving the eating behaviours of youth. In consideration of the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in the world among all age groups, including very young children, an understanding of the factors that influence eating behaviours during childhood is needed to improve the dietary patterns and health status of this age groups. Socioeconomic

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    The Realism movement flourished in the mid-19th Century, beginning after the Revolution of 1848 in France and continuing with the struggle to implement a more democratic system of government. It was an attempt to reject the idealization of reality in art, instead its aim was to ‘give a truthful, objective and impartial representation of the real world, based on meticulous observation of contemporary life’ . One of the leading figures of the movement, Courbet, stunned his audience with his Realist

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    Realism is a historical movement in figurative arts and literature from 1840-1870-80. The objective was aimed at giving a truthful and impartial representation of the world. People were also expected to give up ideas of constitutions and their mechanisms. Realism was a wide spread movement involving painting, literature, and drama in several European countries. Some French realist painters were going to look at are Daumier, Courbet and Millet.The radical shift was by artist portraying ordinary people

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    because it required an extra step of being crushed, while millet and thistle were used because of their different shape and sizes to bring variation to the study. The control set-up consisted of 100 of each seed type that were mixed together, and dispersed out on a 24” x 24” carpet representing the Finches’ natural habitat. The experimental set up for drought was constructed by doubling the amount of Sunflower seeds to 200, and cutting Millet and Thistle to 50 seeds per type, while maintaining everything

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