Erin Peluso Throughout history, Western civilization has remained a super power superior to all other nation because of its ability to overcome adversity. Western influence is viewed as a topic in which many people disagree on because over time it has had so many debatable issues arise. Christopher Columbus and his voyage and discovery of the New World are one of the most popular debates. While some believe that Columbus’s discovery was astounding and had a positive impact on the world forever, others believe that the discovery was nothing more than an act of slavery, and genocide, as well as a waste of natural resources in a new land. In some cases, historians even believe that the discovery should not be credited to Christopher Columbus.
This would also help with stability. The LOA is 34 feet. The weight of my boat is 8000 pounds. It is also a monohull. My boat is influenced by the Mari-Cha IV sailboat.
There are many different types of boats for different kinds of jobs and activities. Mainly there are four popular types of boats which include the flat bottom hull, vee bottom hull, round bottom hull, and the multi-hull. Each boat has pros and cons about it, and has many different traits. The first kind of boat is the flat bottom hull. There are 4 types of flat bottom hull boats which include a barge, bateau, flatboat, and the gondola.
They inhabited every large river and concentration of lakes within North America. They nested in forty-five of the lower forty-eight states. One researcher estimated an eagle nest for every mile of shore along Chesapeake Bay. They congregated on the lower Hudson, and were extremely abundant along the coast
Franco Custodio HIS233 Jason Treter 25Sep10 The Vikings In 793 AD, a peaceful monastery in the northeastern England called Lindisfarne was savagely attacked by strange new invaders (“The Viking,” 2000 ). These warriors were described as blue eyed barbarians in horned helmet and believed to have been Norwegians who came from the North Sea. The attack was marked the beginning of the Viking Age. Just who and what are these Vikings? What is their main intention of attacking the monastery of Lindisfarne?
To get there they had to think of ways to help them in their conquest of lands whether it is swords or other technologies. There political and environmental characteristics were pretty impressive, but who know which one was better. Rome was an empire known for its tough army and its vast line of rulers who conquered and crushed anyone who got in there way. The Maurya too was powerful with its rulers,
The Vikings boats in realty was well built for the time and the Vikings not cram all those soldiers on the boats. Diamond also makes a point about the Vikings because the primary source in the “Discovering the Global Past” shows that the boats were not sturdy and the Vikings crammed many men in one boat. But Diamond shows in his book that the Vikings traveled to many parts to the globe and setup many new territories and in-order to accomplish this; they Vikings must have had very well built ships. Evidence that can cloud the way we see the Vikings today is that
Archaeologists would argue that the Titanic is one of the great discoveries for archaeology because of its classification as nautical/maritime archaeology. The preparations, limitations, and rules for recovery when it comes to the Titanic are all very different compared to a discovery made on land or
In this century people recreate the myths in movies and books. The Greek and Norse mythologies were quite different but the basic idea and the structures were sort of similar. Firstly the Greek and Norse were from totally different sides of the world and had completely different cultures. On the Norse side you have all the Northern countries that ranged from a lot of different backgrounds, In contrast the Greek were once considered the world's greatest country. The Norse had a difficult time, due to the climate.
His book was largely one-sided and biased, and was used more for propaganda and justification for the three million deaths the nine-year war caused than for a light read or entertainment. In the book he tried to paint a picture of barbarian tribes who needed to be forcefully civilized, and he took this route to further his political career. "The Conquest of Gaul" by Julius Caesar was a great literary work of its time and had a large impact on ancient culture, although it was a very biased view of the conquest of Gaul it showed that Caesar was far more than a bloodthirsty leader, he was an intelligent, resourceful