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Important Events and Dates in Modern European History

1341 (April 6)     Petrarch crowned Poet Laureate. The Renaissance begins.1397:                 Giovanni de Medici Moves to Florence: Giovanni de Medici, the papal banker, settles in Florence and becomes a patron of the arts, beginning the Medici rule over Florence.1401:                 Ghiberti awarded the Right to Sculpt the Doors of The Baptistry in Florence: It takes him 28…

Contributions of Ancient Rome

RELIGION Facilitated the spread of Christianity throughout the Empire. GOVERNMENT Democracy plus Senate (Members represented sections of society) LITERATURE Ovid: Metamorphoses, Virgil: Aeneid, Cicero: Rhetorical works. HISTORICAL WORKS Tacitus: Histories;  Julius Caesar: Histories of  Rome. CONSTRUCTION Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: “De architectura,” deals with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics,…

Contributions of Islam (During The Middle Ages)

1.  Protected and spread the knowledge of Ancient Greece, and made it accessible to Renaissance scholars and scientists. 2.  Made new contributions in math, and the sciences and wrote influential works later discovered and used by Renaissance mathematicians and scientists. 3.  Influenced the architecture of parts of Europe (Spain and parts of Italy) 4. Made…

Major Accomplishments of the Ancient Greeks

1. They developed the world’s first democracy.2. They were the first people to take the scientific approach to medicine by actually studying the diseases. (Hippocrates)3. Playwrights wrote and produced the first dramas in outdoor theaters. (Euripides & Sophocles)4. They invented the rules of Geometry as well as other mathematics. (Euclid)5. They developed the art of…

Incomplete Dominance or Codominance

Incomplete Dominance – there is an interaction between 2 alleles in the homozygous form – alleles are semi – or incompletely dominant and act together to yield an intermediate heterozygote – usually phenotypically between the two homozygote Codominance – when definite product or substance controlled by each allele is identified ex. of incomplete dominance: Andalusian…

Respiratory Disorders: Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema, Cystic Fibrosis

Asthma – results in contraction of smooth muscle that surrounds airways – makes breathing difficult – allergic reaction – treat with bronchodilators – causes airways to dilate (increase in diameter) Bronchitis – inflammation of bronchial lining + overproduction of mucous and frequent coughing – related to smoking and other irritants (air pollution etc) – increased…