The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The most significant changes and continuities in Western and Central Asia from 1400 to 1700 were the following.
In the 1400s, the Timurid Empire had control over this region. Timur was the leader of the Empire. The members of this dynasty ordered the rebuilding of the Citadel, the Bazaar, and new buildings are constructed. They establish a new capital, Herat; that became an important center for the Muslims.
The wife of Emperor Shah Rukh ordered the construction of mosques to teach women about the importance of Islam.
The arrival of Husain Baqara as the new emperor in 1470 meant important support to the art and culture of West and Central Asia. Painters, poets, and calligraphers received support to do their jobs.
Dayan Khan became emperor in 1491, but he fell short of expectations and his period represents the decline of the Timurid Empire. In 1507, Babur, from the same family founds the Mughal Empire in India.
In 1543, Altan Khan coverts into Buddhism and became a Lama in Tibet.
First, because interest groups have stronger and more realistic opinions about public policies (advantageous or not). Second, they are reference of economic, political and religious positions that also involve or interfere in numerous public policies. And third, interest groups are able to pressure congressmen (legislators) on some issues considered as urgent by them.
<em>All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.</em>
Answer:
because large amounts of labor needed to be down when the colonies were just starting to form, which the settlers were over welmed or to lazy to do (which John Smith states.)
Explanation:
Farming the Field
Limited Natural Resources
Because of flooding and the hot weather, Mesopotamia lacked natural resources such as stone, wood and metal.
Who Rules
The Sumerian world is split into several large city-states which had control over the surrounding area, acting independently like countries today.
Religion
The Sumerians were polytheistic, believing in many gods. Each of their gods had power over a different force of nature or parts of their lives.
Protection
Religion
<span>Literature </span>
Architecture
Inventions
Fertile Crescent is located on an arc of rich land in Southwest Asia. This becomes a civilization known as Mesopotamia - Sumerians
Located between the Tigris and euphrates
<span>Goal: The area floods int he spring, leaving behind a rich mud called silt. Makes it easy to grow wheat and barley. </span>
<span>Problems: </span>
Floods were not regular
<span>Solution: </span>
<span>Construct irrigation systems </span>
<span>to carry river water to fields. </span>
The Sumerians were lacking natural barriers which acted as protection.
Problem:
With no natural barriers the villagers could not protect themselves from other civilizations, animals and natural disasters.
Solution:
<span>People build walls of baked mud around their villages as a form of defense. </span>
Problem:
<span>With such a limited amount of natural resources, how would the Sumerians get the materials for tools and buildings? </span>
<span>Solution: </span>
<span>Trade!! - Because the Sumerians could always grow more food than was needed, they traded the extra for stone, metal and wood from other lands. </span>
Problem:
Who would rule these Sumerian City-States?
Solution:
Military leaders begin to gain power and permanent control of standing army's. They rise to power in the city-state and then their children after them, establishing dynasties.
Role of People - Servants of God
Problem:
How to please the gods?
Solution:
<span>Build ziggurats and offer sacrificed animals as well as food and wine to the gods. </span>
Believed the souls of the dead went to a joyless place under the earth's crust.
These views and ideas spread, through cultural diffusion, to other areas, helping shape ideas and thought in other civilizations.
''Land of No Return''
<span>The Sumerians wrote their myths and beliefs with the use of epics and poems. </span>
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Sumerians used different structures and achievements which impacted their civilization.
<span>Examples: Arches, columns, ramps, pyramid shaped design of the Ziggurat. </span>
The Sumerians develop new technologies and inventions which make life and survival easier
The sail, wheel and the plow
First to use bronze
Developed writing systems on clay tablets
<span>They also developed arithmetic and geometry</span>
Answer:
gandhian concept was truth, he used non violence as a weapon to gain freedom from the britishian roles
