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...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...k Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibl... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader...
...reaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printer...
... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...ciety. These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990s: the Iranian revolution lost momentum, prestige, and public support, and Pakista... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...hat had received support from the government of Iran.While the evidence of Iranian involvement is strong, there are also signs that al Qaeda played so... ...mon enemy. In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to coop- erate in providing... ...test for the new force did not go well. It came in April 1980 dur- ing the Iranian hostage crisis, when Navy helicopters with Marine pilots flew to a ... ...t a prominent issue, the State Department could perform this role.When the Iranian hostage crisis developed, this procedure went by the board: Nationa...