East European Studies

Question 1.Formerly the Middle East was referred to as the near east. Even though this region has no clear border outline, it is estimated to be the region between the Oxus and River Nile. Besides, most countries in north of Africa and south west of Asia (only Turkey) are conceived to be in the region. Middle East boasts recording the first form of civilization in the world. The most important factor influencing todays world is the economy of this particular region. Oil is the single most factors...

Winter, also identified as SNOW TIME, happens on one occasion a year, frequently amid autumn and spring. Winters all through Russia are extremely chilly, apart from cool conditions down the black Sea, where the temperatures remain above 80C. Snowstorm face in southern Russia lasts as of 60 to 80 days also as of 260 to 280 days in the remote North. In a year, there are six months full of darkness beyond the Arctic Circle. Temperatures crosswise this section of Russia can get to harshly cold heights....

The modern worlds debt to many aspects of the Roman Empire is easy to identify. Modern European languages owe much to Latin, as do modern legal systems, modern literature, philosophical thinking, even the very histories and self-identities of modern nations. Cities in Europe, especially areas to the North and West of Greece and Italy exist today because the Romans built them. Before the Romans, the concept of the city was unknown in these regions (Reader 82). Cities were The influence of Roman cites...

The development of organised, civil societies, as opposed to cultures based entirely on local agriculture, drove early attempts to standardise subunits of the day using such technologies as sundials, water clocks, and sand clocks (Boorstin 26-36). Mechanical alarm clocks were created initially to ensure that early Christians could perform their religious duties at the precisely proper times of day (Aveni 92).  Sea navigation of ever-greater distances demanded greater precision, resulting in...

Introduction The modern world’s debt to many aspects of the Roman Empire is easy to identify. Modern European languages owe much to Latin, as do modern legal systems, modern literature, philosophical thinking, even the very histories and self-identities of modern nations. Cities in Europe, especially areas to the “North and West of Greece and Italy” exist today because the Romans built them. Before the Romans, “the concept of the city was unknown” in these regions (Reader 82). Cities were “The...