The middle ages of Europe which began with the destruction of the Roman Empire were referred to by a variety of different terms. ... The fall of the Roman Empire led to the rise of feudalism. During this period the Roman-Catholic Church provided spiritual direction while many literary, artistic and architectural achievements were made. ... As the increase in the study of math occurred the numbers developed from the long drawn out roman numerals to the simpler, easier to use Arabic numerals that we use today. ...

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Europe was entering its Dark Ages, nursing its dwindling links to a dead Roman culture. ... They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi, Armenian, Hebrew and Roman texts and translating them into Arabic. ... Four hundred years later, Fibonacci wrote his groundbreaking Liber abaci to introduce modern (Arabic) numerals and the Hindu-Arabic decimal system to a Europe still muddling with Roman numerals. ...

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SYMBOLS EXPLANATION Since the creation of the first nations, symbols exist. Symbols are not only representation of a nation. Symbols are a form of comunication. With them we can interact with several people and express lots of things. In nations and countries, Symbols has different meanings....

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Qumran, The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls Preamble "The grass withers and the flowers fall but the word of our God stands forever" Isaiah 40.8 "Mohammed Dib, a Bedouin shepherd of the T"Amireh tribe" (Keller, 1957, 401) could not have known that he would be the person who, in ...

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First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). ...

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First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School