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...contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scan...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ... imagination with places to warehouse his memory.‖ The accuracy of our ancient forbearers‘ spoken messages rested solely upon the listener‘s memo... ...ct the sharing of problem-solving knowledge. The magic of writing broke ancient tribal bonds and passed the tribal chiefs‘ powers to warrior-leade... ...erent from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean and Japanese.) Mongol tribes considered low...

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...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...uggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - both Ancient Rome and Byzantium hold relevant - albeit very limited -... ...Islamic Turkish warriors). Fleeing from the Mongols of Genghis Khan, they invaded Anatolia in the second half of the 11th century. They immediatel... ... in the battle of Manzikert, in 1071. They spread inexorably throughout the fertile Anatolia, confronting in the process the Byzantines and the Mon... .... They were no match to the brute efficacy of the latter, though. They lost most of Anatolia to the Mongols and maintained a few autonomous pockets ... .... Osman's successors tore Byzantium to hemorrhaging shreds, conquering the rest of Anatolia and the Balkan. They even employed Christian mercenarie... ...istan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gateway through... ...lan involves immoral or even illegal acts. As international law evolves beyond the ancient percepts of sovereignty, it should incorporate new think... ...lan involves immoral or even illegal acts. As international law evolves beyond the ancient percepts of sovereignty, it should incorporate new think...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...is imagination with places to warehouse his memory.‖ The accuracy of our ancient forbearers‘ spoken messages rested solely upon the listener‘s memo... ...rict the sharing of problem-solving knowledge. The magic of writing broke ancient tribal bonds and passed the tribal chiefs‘ powers to warrior-leade... ...erent from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean and Japanese.) Mongol tribes considered lo...

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...attitudes are permissive rather than puritanical, even though his emancipation from ancient taboos brings him no sexual peace. Fiercely competitive ... ...be corrupt officials to survive. Still, compared to other Ottoman exploits (in Anatolia, for instance), the conquest of the Balkan was a benign... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...s continuity of feudal practices. Both manual labour and trade were derided in the Ancient World. This derision was partially eroded during the Dar... ...thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man ... the ancient citizen was a political man." What communism did to the... ...back. Weber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as wel...

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...); dry season is cooler (May to November) Terrain: generally undulating with ancient volcanic peaks, deep ravines Land use: NA% arable land; NA% perma... ... Language: English (official); Norfolk a mixture of 18th Century English and ancient Tahitian Literacy: probably high Government Official name: Territ... ...n interior Terrain: mostly mountains; narrow coastal plain; central plateau (Anatolia) Land use: 30% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 12% meadows and ...

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... in Bulgaria are not Germans but Bulgarians; the people the T urks want in Anatolia are not Germans but T urks. And for all these tasks Germany must s... ...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ...fe as creative opportunity. We want to emancipate this profession from its ancient guild restrictions—the most anti-social and disastrous of all such ... ... of fact it is the lawyer-politicians, split by factions that simulate the ancient government and opposition, who rule, under a steadily growing press... ...l always be with Central Europe. For generations the Turks held Thrace and Anatolia before they secured Constantinople. The Turk can exist without Con...

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...’—kissed’— ’ dressed’ (5 53). Shelley may have first seen the word in “The Ancient Mariner”; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seem... ... their thin shadows down the rugged slope, And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines* _530 Branchless and blasted, clenched... ...ated thresholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been ... ...ed. Thus, the tragic poets of the age of Pericles; the Italian revivers of ancient learning; those mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded... ... went In silence, where, to soothe his rankling mind, Some likeness of his ancient state was lent; And if his heart could have been innocent As those ... ... earth. Like clouds, and like the shadows of the clouds, Over the hills of Anatolia, Swift in wide troops the T artar chivalry ...

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...eye fell on one of them, asked, ‘What is Percy doing now?’ ‘He has been in Anatolia, going over some of the places we saw together. He has made some d... ...se but now they were fast resuming the childish familiarity of tone of the ancient times, when the rough but good-natured, gentlemanlike boy had been ... ...e carving, or Frank fortress; she shared the exultation of deciphering the ancient record in the ven- erable mountain convent, the disappointment when... ...ooks, potteries, red and black, tiles and lachrymatories, coins, scraps of ancient armour, a stuffed bee-eater, and the bottled remains of a green liz...

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... of baseness: and yet this was the brief analysis of a devotee amongst the ancient Ro- mans. Now, considering that the word religion is originally Rom... ...ustered to such a derivation: but the last of the three is conclusive. The ancients never did view morality as a mode of obligation: I affirm this per... ...hronism. It is the anachro- nism of unconsciously reflecting back upon the ancient reli- gions of darkness, and as if essential to all religions, feat... ...lind terror, as against power in the hands of divine wickedness, arose the ancient religions of Paganism. Because the gods were wicked, man was religi... ...he other hand, for a mere ‘cultus’ to attempt conversions, is nonsense. An ancient Roman could have had no motive for bringing you over to the worship... ...er conspiracy * See Mr. Yates’s ‘Annotations upon Fellowes’s Researches in Anatolia,’ as one authority for this singular phenomenon. 69 Thomas de Qui...

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...Cossack soul” trying to break through the shell of sordid to-day like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they a... ... are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness... ...ian host, still dressed in the skins of wild beasts, still worshipping the ancient fire and practising pagan rites: “Then Southern Russia, under the m... ...“Taras Bulba” could not have been written without the “Odyssey.” Once more ancient fire gave life to new beauty. And yet at the time Gogol could not h... ...n having no understanding whatever of God.” Then he goes on to compare the ancient har- mony, perfect down to every detail of dress, to the slight- es... ...hink, send out a few young men in boats and let them plunder the coasts of Anatolia a little. What do you think, gentles?” “Lead us, lead us all!” sho... ...any others. They were all great travellers; they had visited the shores of Anatolia, the salt marshes and steppes of the Crimea, all the rivers great ... ...tions; but more glo- rious than all the rest was his raid on the shores of Anatolia. They collected many sequins, much valuable Turkish plun- 102 Gog...