When Athens began to emerge as a Greek city state in the ninth century, it was a poor city, built on and surrounded by undesirable land, which could support only a few poor crops and olive trees. As it grew it was forced to import much of its food, and while it was near the centre of the Greek world, it was far from being a vital trading juncture like Corinth. Its army was, by the standards of cities such as Sparta, weak. Yet somehow it became the most prominent of the Greek city states, the one remembered while contemporaries such as Sparta are often forgotten. It was the world's first democracy of a substantial size (and, in some ways, though certainly not others, one of the few true democracies the world has ever seen), producing art and fine architecture in unprecedented amounts. It became a centre of thinking and literature, producing philosophers and playwrights like Socrates and Aristophanes. But most strikingly of all, it was the one Greek city that managed to control an empire spanning the Aegean sea. During the course of this essay I will attempt to explain how tiny Athens managed to acquire this formidable empire, and why she became Greece's most prominent city state, rather than cities which seemed to have more going for them like Sparta or Corinth.
B. <em>1998</em>. It was in this year that Osama bin Laden co-signed a <em>fatwa</em> (a non-binding legal pronunciation made by a religious authority) with Ayman al-Zawahiri, stating that the killing of North American and their allies was an "individual duty for every Muslim", to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and Mecca from their grip". In the same year a series of U.S. embassies bombings (by terrorist cells linked or incited by al-Qaeda), thorough East African countries killed hundreds of people.
<u>From the given choices, UN Millennium Development goals are as follows:</u>
- to empower women
- to reduce child mortality
- to promote gender equality
- to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger
Answer: Option A, D, G, and F
<u>Explanation:</u>
There are eight goals that the UN has set to solve various problems of the world. These goals are known as UN Millennium Development Goals or MDG's. By setting these goals, the UN has targeted to find solutions for various problems that are prevailing across the globe.
<u>The eight goals for millennium development are:-
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- Eradicate Poverty and Hunger present at extreme levels.
- Achieve universal primary education so no one is left illiterate.
- Gender Equality and Women Empowerment.
- Deduce child mortality
- Develop Maternal Health
- Combat AIDS and other deadly diseases.
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Global partnership for development.
When Cuba and the Soviet Union started to trade nuclear weapons.
Answer:
A central idea in the Bill of Rights is that the monarch could only exercise power as stated in the law.
Explanation:
The Bill of Rights is a document drafted in England in 1689, which imposed the English Parliament on Prince William of Orange to succeed King James II.
The main purpose of this text was to recover and strengthen certain parliamentary powers already disappeared or notoriously diminished during the absolutist reign of the Stuarts (Charles II and James II), in order to put a limit to the absolute power of the English kings.
