D. The reason for the fall of the Maya civilization is still unknown. There are many different theories attempting to explain the cause of the Classic Maya collapse and the abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries: climate change, drought, deforestation, etc. but although the drought is the leading theory at the moment the truth is yet unknown.
I n t r o d u c t i o nHan Fei (d. 233 BCE) was a student of the philosopher Xunzi (c. 310-c. 219 BCE), but abandoned Confucian philosophy in favor of the more pragmatic and hardheaded approach of men like Lord Shang (Shang Yang or Gongsun Yang, d. 338 BCE), whom we collectively label as “Legalists.” Han Fei worked as an official for the state of Qin until he was executed in 233 BCE, allegedly on charges manipulated by a fellow official, Li Si (d. 208 BCE), who was also formerly a fellow student under Xunzi. Han Fei is most famous, however, for having developed a thorough and systematic synthesis of Legalist and Daoist philosophy, which we see in the book which bears his name--a book of which he is possibly the real author, but which at any rate is accepted as a reasonably accurate representation of his thinking.D o c u me n t E x c e r p t s wi t h Q u e s t i o n s (Longer selection follows this section)From Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 199-203. © 1999 Columbia University Press. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.Selectionsfromthe Han Feizi:Chapter 49, “The Five Vermin
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The poorer areas of the cities were characterised by overcrowded, badly built, unsanitary living accommodation, and filthy streets. Cholera, carried by dirty water, killed 16,000 Londoners in 1849 alone, and smallpox, scarlet fever, typhus, scurvy and rickets were rife.
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German American lives were hard and uncomfortable. they worked in the undesirable jobs and worked for minimum wage. most lived in the tenements or overcrowded apartments with poor ventilation and almost no plumbing.
