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By Xenophon

Within the Persian day trip, Xenophon, a tender Athenian noble who sought his future in another country, presents a charming eyewitness account of the try out through a Greek mercenary military - the 10 Thousand - to assist Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. while the Greeks have been then betrayed by means of their Persian employers, they have been pressured to march domestic via thousands of miles of inauspicious terrain - adrift in a adverse kingdom and less than consistent assault from the unforgiving Persians and warlike tribes. during this impressive description of patience and person bravery, Xenophon, a type of selected to steer the taking flight military, presents a bright narrative of the crusade and its aftermath, and his account continues to be the most effective images we've of Greeks confronting a 'barbarian' international.

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That was the First World, which was like an island floating in a sea of mist.

When we read American history backward, looking for early precedents of national institutions, practices, and values, we are likely to miss the radical linguistic and cultural diversity of the colonial world. Readers of the colonial record need to attend to the many tongues with which the colonists articulated their experiences, visions, and values. -rJ; AMERICAN LITERATURE IN 1700 Along the eastern seaboard by 1700, most of the colonies that were to unite in seeking independence from Britain toward the end of the eighteenth century had been founded-Georgia was to follow in the 1730s.

Lloyd, somewhat later, both worked with the Pima man Thin Leather to record stories of the earliest times. Among the Iroquois, David Cusick, a Tuscarora (the Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy early in the eighteenth century), had begun to document the legends of his people as early as 1825. He was followed by the distinguished Tuscarora anthropologist J. N. B. Hewitt shortly after the turn of the last century. THE IROQUOIS CREATION STORY -r he people known collectively as the Iroquois were mnde up of the Mohawk, Sen1 eca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga nations.

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