Answer: A
Explanation:
Wheatley was captured by slave traders and brought to America in 1761. Upon arrival, she was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first name Phillis was derived from the ship that brought her to America, “the Phillis.”
In his 2008 article for the New York Times, James Gleick talks about "the gloom that has fallen over the book-publishing industry" to describe the the negative impact of digitalizing books in the book-publishing industry.
In this article he describes the already decline in paper-books sales due to the rise of digital platforms such as Kindle, epub, etc, and how the future of book-publishers looked grimer because of an agreement between authors, publishers and Google to allow the scanning and digitalizing of books to make them accesible in website and digital platforms.
This agreement would be dramatic for the sectors of the book-publishing industry dealing with marketing, archiving and distributing physical paper books.
Answer:
Conquered peoples being drawn into their conquerors' economic and cultural orbits, as illustrated by Turkic peoples converting to Islam and integrating into Muslim societies
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Explanation:
Few nomadic empires were solidified by placing a capital town inside a captured land and then they abused the business sources of that non-nomadic civilization. In that situation, the formerly nomadic regime may become culturally acclimated to the culture of the conquered country before it is eventually overthrew. The improvements were in the 13th century between 1330 and 1406.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
The passage is unclear for the following reasons.
1. Slavery was still allowed even though all men were supposedly created equal.
2. At the time, only property owners could vote.
3. The passage says nothing about women's rights, which would start a century long process of desegregation amongst gender.
Answer: At that time the artists of Egypt had no intention of being famous with their temples, the creations had ideological purpose, to show the power of society.
In both Egypt and Mesopotamia, the creations were grand, meant to show the power of the elite of both nations.
Rich architectures with palaces and temples, in Egypt, with tombs. Most pyramids were built like tombs of Pharaohs.
The main manifestations of Mesopotamian architecture were the palaces, usually very grand; As there was little stone, the walls had to be thick as they were made of bricks. The temples had complete facilities, with rooms for priests and other compartments. A characteristic feature of this architecture was the “Ziggurat”, a seven story tower tower, on which was a chapel used to observe the sky.
