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…the military action to capture the port As armed as an East Indiaman was the Company still required true warships. The Company Marine was created early on in the HEICs history to fight off the Portuguese. The threat must have been considerable as unlike…

…of the world affected by our careless habits is our coastlines and the marine habitats that vast amounts of species rely on. These particular areas of the world are being destroyed because humans don’t seem to care as long as they make a couple of dollars…

…THE ENVIRONMENT OF ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS The environment is an extremely important factor in determaing the developement of a civilization. It can help advance a civilization or impede it. In ancient Africa, the environment affected…

…that that one came from Greece." Yes, surprising. As a matter of fact, many things which are considered to have originated in Greece and are now known as "Western" culture, art, and architecture, actually originated in the Middle East, or more precisely, in ancient…

…Attributes That Have Influenced Western Civilization There have been major influences from ancient civilizations that have helped the development of our Western Civilization today. Two major civilizations that have maybe contributed the most to our…

…Ancient passages provide the world today with a description and a sense of feeling of what the world looked like at the time. From descriptions of the land, events taking place such as wars, to the epic tales of some of the heroes of the day…

…) At this time, all learned people read and even spoke Latin. This was the Latin of the church, and the Universities and Scholasticism--not the Latin of the ancient Romans. Petrarch loved the language of the ancients however, and he spent a great deal of time…

…Comments on Matthew Arnold’s “Philistinism in England and America” In his essay, “Philistinism in England and America,” Matthew Arnold examines the ancient ideas of Plato in the context of a twentieth century, capitalist society. As he agrees…

…Executive Order 13158 on Marine Protected Areas 27. 2000-05-23 Executive Order 13157 on Woman-Owned Small Businesses 28. 2000-05-17 Executive Order 13156 on Amendment on Executive Order 12871 29. 2000-05-10 Executive Order 13155 on Access to HIV-AIDS…

…was the statue of Ramesses II (?). This statue was found at the Heracleopolis, Temple of Harsaphes, in Egypt. This sculpture was made somewhere between 1897 and 1834, during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. The artist was probably an ancient Egyptian who was patroned…