Hunting, gathering, and hard work amongst the men and women of the tribes was successful for them. ... Arguably, infectious diseases had the most impact on the world following the initiation of contact by Columbus and his men. ... Disease also traveled back eastward with Columbus and fellow explorers, affecting large numbers of European men and women. ... Examples of animals coming from the Old World to the New World are horses, pigs, goats, chicken, and cattle. ... A variety of plants such as rice, barley, oats, coffee, melons, and daisies were brought from the Old World to the Americas. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Peter I created a society of social and honorable people, by throwing out old customs he felt were outdated and absurd, such as requiring men to maintain beards. ... Men traded their long coats in for shorter jackets, and women wore western skits, long dresses as well as gowns. ... Like neighboring European nations, women were allowed to attend church and other public gatherings. ... While Catherine clearly advocated a strong tsarist control, she also differed from Peter I, because she gave nobles power over peasants, resembling the Old Russian government. ... Petersburg with European style bu...

• Word Count: 969
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the twelfth century on, traditional style was the area mostly of legal counselors and churchmen, most outstandingly in the ecclesiastical curia (the ring of scholars and secretaries who carried on ecclesiastical business), where learned men could meet up to impart their premiums in established letters and style. ... As humanists in Petrarch's ring perused more aged creators they found that a full energy about their writing obliged a careful foundation in the writing and society of old Greece. ... They likewise grasped non-Christian thoughts and restored old agnostic functions, which ...

• Word Count: 2501
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate