An environmental and cultural study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: a research prospectus [PDF]
, 1980 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversion and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History [PDF]
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on
Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
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Challenges of integration and globalization [PDF]
, 2011 There has been plenty of books and articles written about integration and globalisation, especially in English. However, these processes are characterised as being extremely dynamic.
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1. The Heirs of the Roman Empire: Byzantium, Islam, and Medieval Europe
, 1958 The fall of Rome did not, as many contemporaries had expected, preface the end of the world. Rather, it was the end of a world, of a way of life which had characterized the Mediterranean basin for centuries.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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The historical regions of Europe: civilizational backgrounds and multiple routes to modernity [PDF]
, 2012 A systematic typology or comparative analysis of European historical regions does not exist and there is relatively little literature on the topic. The argument in this paper is that a six-fold classification is needed to capture the diversity of Europe ...
Delanty, Gerard
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The Cultural Environment Approach of Urban Development: the Case Study of the City of Veria, Greece. [PDF]
The culture of any city undoubtedly promotes its development. The formulation and implementation of cultural policies, a key issue for urban economic development, relate to a variety of economic sectors.
Alex Deffner +2 more
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THE SECRET OF VENETIAN SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN FINANCIAL MARKETS [PDF]
The commercial success of Venice hinged on her merchants¿ ability to do business with borrowed money. However, to raise other people¿s capital, merchants needed to commit not to embezzle the capital received. Despite this commitment problem, the evidence
Yadira González de Lara
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TO WHAT EXTENT DID SOCIALISM INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND WIDESPREAD OF CHESS IN THE USSR UNTIL ITS COLLAPSE IN 1992 ? [PDF]
, 2011 This essay is based on the research question “To what extent did socialism influence the development and widespread of chess in the USSR until its collapse in 1992?” While examining this particular question, firstly the context before the October ...
Bahadır, Enis
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Byzantine Empire Economic Growth: Did Past Climate Change Play a Role? [PDF]
Hum Ecol Interdiscip J, 2022 Lambert T.
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Reconstructing Prehistoric Civilizations in a New Theory of Civilizations [PDF]
, 2003 A new mathematical theory of the oscillations of civilizations is successfully applied to Mayan, pre-historic Egyptian, sub-Saharan African (Great Zimbabwe) and prehistoric Chinese ...
Blaha, Dr. Stephen
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