Your answer should include some of these points:
<span>-Doyle sets the contest in Olympia, the site of the Olympic Games in classical times.
</span><span>-He compares Policles to Adonis, the Greek god of beauty. At the end of the story, Platus tells Nero that his opponent at the contest was Pan, the Greek god of nature, mountains, flocks, and rustic music.
</span><span>-Doyle stresses the cultural importance of music in ancient Greece. Through Policles's thoughts, he implies the Greeks took a keen interest in musical contests and were used to high standards in music. It wasn’t unusual for audiences to jeer poor performers off the stage.</span>
Which major religion was born during a time when the Roman Empire was near its height? CHRISTIANITY
<span>D. Rose was a Confederate spy. Unfortunately for her, she got caught. Not long after being forced to leave Union territory, she went to England to try to gain their support for the Confederacy. She received about 35 pounds of gold coin, and on the return voyage tied it into a belt. Her ship was spotted by a Union warship, and to avoid capture, she tied the belt around her waist and demanded to be rowed ashore. The rowboat capsized and she drowned, dragged down by the gold.</span>
<span>B. Japan was eager to learn new technology in 1900.
Contacts with the West encouraged Japan to modernize and mimic Western methods.
Under Meiji leadership, Japan began to westernize to protect themselves against Western imperial powers. They studied the industrial methods of Great Britain and the US bringing factories to Japan especially a steel industry. The country also adopted baseball and golf as common forms of leisure and national entertainment. Japan would also mimic imperial moves eventually making moves in iron rich Manchuria to gain natural resources needed for their growing steel industry. </span>
Both sides fully beleived that their soldiers were better than the others and did not even pause to think they might be evenly matched, or outmatched in some cases. The military leaders also overlooked key military and technological innovations by both sides that prolonged the war. Also, the Northern abolishionists beleived they were doing right in the eyes of God and that he would end the war quickly while some Southerners beleived they were naturally supierior to people in the North and would easily beat them. In short, everyone was wrong.
