1983 résultats pour "moderne"

• Armenia (country) - country.

  because of ethnic tension brought on by a secessionist conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited predominantly by Armenians in western Azerbaijan. In thereverse direction, many Armenian refugees entered Armenia from Azerbaijan during the conflict. Armenia’s official state language is Armenian, an Indo-European language with no surviving close relatives. It has a unique 38-letter alphabet that dates from the early5th century. Of its many spoken dialects, the most important are Eastern or Y...

• Estonia - country.

  protest the expansion of open-pit phosphorite mining in northeastern Estonia. Their success in stopping the expansion prompted further demonstrations as part of thecountry’s independence movement. Since independence Estonia has taken measures to protect the environment. The government has ratified international agreementsto reduce emissions of hazardous wastes and greenhouse gases, as well as to protect biodiversity, wetlands, and endangered species. Estonians cherish thecountryside, and 31 perc...

• Ancient Egypt.

  around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...

• À l'extrémité occidentale de l'Eurasie, la France occupe une position charnière entre l'Europe du Nord et l'Europe du Sud.

  Géographie Les conditions naturelles Ni le relief, ni les sols, ni les conditions climatiques n'ont été des obstacles au peuplement et au développement économique. La France n'a certes pas de climat qui permette plusieurs récoltes par an, ni de delta particulièrement fertile, mais elle ne connaît aucun facteur physique trop contraignant, n'est pas affectée d'une grande probabilité de risques naturels majeurs, et bénéficie par ailleurs d'une grande diversité de terroirs. L'évolution géolog...

• Ancient Egypt - USA History.

  around 4500 BC. The style and decoration of the pottery found at these sites differ from those of pottery found in Upper Egypt. The northern type eventually fell out of use. Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, thelatter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs. B Unification and Early Dynastic Period By 3500 BC, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank...

• A u terme d'un long processus d'hominisation, qui définit, parmi

  anthropopithèque australopithèque Éthiopie - Histoire - Introduction Leakey - Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey - Leakey Mary quaternaire Le stade Homo habilis. Homo habilis apparut il y a 2 millions d'années dans l'est de l'Afrique. De petite taille (1,50 m), il possédait un grand volume crânien (700 cm 3) et l'on peut distinguer sur les moulages endocrâniens les traces de différenciation des aires du cerveau. Sa mâchoire de taille réduite indique un régime omnivore. Homo habilis...

• France - country.

  In both the Paris and Aquitaine basins, fertile soils derived from limestone and wind-deposited dust, called loess, have supported prosperous agriculture since ancienttimes. Other lowlands in France are scattered and relatively small. They include the Alsace Plain in the east, bordering Germany, the valley of the Rhône River in thesoutheast, and the Languedoc Plain along the Mediterranean coast. A2 Uplands France contains several regions of uplands, the worn down remains of ancient mountain sys...

• Bangladesh - country.

  F Environmental Issues Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a serious threat to public health in Bangladesh. Until the 1970s, many of Bangladesh’s people became sick from drinkingpolluted water drawn from surface rivers. Aid agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) built shallow wells throughout the country to help provide asafe source of drinking water to Bangladesh’s poor. In the 1990s, however, it was discovered that many of these wells were contaminated by arsenic, a...

• Türkei - geographie.

  Mauswiesel, Tigeriltis und Fischotter. Die Paarhuferfauna ist durch Wildschwein, Reh, Rothirsch und Bezoarziege repräsentiert. Greifvögel sind u. a. mit zahlreichenAdlerarten (See-, Stein-, Kaiser-, Schell-, Schrei-, Zwerg- und Schlangenadler) sowie Geiern (Bart-, Mönchs-, Gänse- und Schmutzgeier) vertreten. BemerkenswerteGroßvögel feuchter Gebiete sind Reiher (Nacht-, Kuh-, Rallen-, Seiden-, Silber-, Purpur- und Graureiher), Rosa- und Krauskopfpelikan, Rosaflamingo, Löffler, Sichler, Weiß-und S...

• Schweiz - Geschichte.

  bedeutendes Finanz- und Handelszentrum, und Lausanne (117 000). 3.2 Sprache Die Amtssprachen der Schweiz sind Deutsch (65 Prozent der Bevölkerung), Französisch (18 Prozent) und Italienisch (10 Prozent). Seit der Volksabstimmung vom 10. März1996 ist Rumantsch, das zu den rätoromanischen Sprachen zählt und von weniger als 1 Prozent der Bevölkerung gesprochen wird, vierte Amtssprache. Der mit 6 Prozentrelativ hohe Anteil anderer Sprachen spiegelt den hohen Anteil ausländischer Bürger wider. Im deu...

• Bolivia - country.

  E Plants and Animals Because of the wide variations in elevation, plant and animal species of nearly every climatic zone are found in Bolivia. A coarse grass, called ichu, grows on the largelybarren high plateau in the west. Para rubber trees, more than 2,000 species of hardwood trees, and vanilla, sarsaparilla, and saffron plants are common in the tropicalforests of the east. The llama, found chiefly on the Altiplano, is an efficient beast of burden. Alpacas and vicuñas also inhabit the platea...

• Mexiko - geographie.

  und den Walfang. Außerdem wurden ein Verbot der Abfallentsorgung im Meer und ein Verbot von Atomtests beschlossen. Zudem ist Mexiko dem Abkommen zum Schutzdes Karibischen Meeres beigetreten. 3 BEVÖLKERUNG Die mexikanische Bevölkerung setzt sich aus drei Hauptgruppen zusammen: dem Bevölkerungsanteil spanischer Herkunft, den Nachfahren der vorkolonialen Bevölkerungund der Gruppe mit sowohl spanischen als auch indianischen Vorfahren, den Mestizos. Die Mestizen sind mit einem Bevölkerungsanteil v...

• Zimbabwe - country.

  contamination—especially from the dieldrin and DDT used in tsetse fly control—has significantly affected wildlife and human health. III PEOPLE AND SOCIETY OF ZIMBABWE In 2008 Zimbabwe’s population was estimated to be 12,382,920, giving the country a population density of 32 persons per sq km (83 per sq mi). With a birth rate of27 per 1,000 and a death rate of 22 per 1,000, Zimbabwe’s population growth rate is 0.6 percent. Life expectancy at birth was estimated at 40 years in 2008, downfrom 59...

• Französische Literatur (Sprache & Litteratur).

  Inbegriff allerhöchster Tugend ) und von Louise Labé ( Sonnetts, 1555; 24 Sonette ) sowie das Werk des in der Nachfolge Ariostos schreibenden Philippe Desportes zu sehen. In der Prosa der Zeit orientierte sich Margarete von Navarra bei Heptaméron (herausgegeben 1559) an Boccaccios Novellenzyklus Decamerone. François Rabelais wiederum ließ sich für die sinnenfroh-überbordende Phantastik und den Wortwitz seiner von satirischer Gesellschafts- und Kirchenkritik durchsetzten Renaissanceromane...

• Pays longtemps féodal, et toujours demeuré indépendant, le Japon ne s'ouvrit au monde qu'avec l'ère Meiji, à partir de 1868.

  mouvements de l'écorce terrestre. Les plaines, qui sont presque toujours périphériques et souvent recouvertes de limons d'origine volcanique, sont rares (moins d'un cinquième de la superficie totale), à l'exception de celles du Kantō (dans laquelle se trouve T ōky ō), de Niigata (sur la mer du Japon), de N ōbi (où se situe Nagoya) ou de Ishikari (plaine de Sapporo). Ces zones basses se raccordent aux hauteurs par des cônes d'alluvion qui constituent des reliefs de collines ou de terrasses. Compl...

• Kenya - country.

  threatens fish and other water life in the lake by depriving them of oxygen. Kenya is well known for its game parks—including Masai Mara Game Park and Tsavo National Park in the south, and Marsabit National Reserve in the north—whichattract large numbers of tourists and much revenue. Conservation of wildlife within reserves has thus received high priority. About 13 percent (2007) of Kenya’s totalland is protected. There are 229 (2004) threatened species in Kenya. Threatened habitats include the...

• Ottoman Empire .

  fleets at Suez, Egypt; though the Portuguese were not expelled, Selim did manage to prevent the establishment of a total Portuguese monopoly over the spice trade. Selim I died in 1520 after having spent most of his short reign on matters pertaining to the east. His son and successor Süleyman I (reigned 1520-1566) again turnedthe attention of the Ottomans to the west. In August 1521 Süleyman, later known as Süleyman the Magnificent, opened the road to Hungary by capturing Belgrade, aHungarian str...

• Ottoman Empire - History.

  fleets at Suez, Egypt; though the Portuguese were not expelled, Selim did manage to prevent the establishment of a total Portuguese monopoly over the spice trade. Selim I died in 1520 after having spent most of his short reign on matters pertaining to the east. His son and successor Süleyman I (reigned 1520-1566) again turnedthe attention of the Ottomans to the west. In August 1521 Süleyman, later known as Süleyman the Magnificent, opened the road to Hungary by capturing Belgrade, aHungarian str...

• Livre du professeur 4eme hatier

• Native Americans of North America.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• The way in which companies frame themselves, their products and their clients

• Deutsche Geschichte - Geschichte.

  Sein Sohn Heinrich III. (1039-1056), bereits 1026 zum König gewählt, erreichte die Unterwerfung Böhmens und Ungarns und erklärte die beiden Länder zu Reichslehen; inUnteritalien machte er die normannischen Fürsten zu Vasallen des Reiches. In Fortsetzung der Politik seines Vaters erweiterte er das Reichsgut, d. h. den dem König zurVerfügung stehenden Grundbesitz des Reiches, und baute mit Hilfe von Ministerialen die Verwaltung aus, was ihn in Konflikt mit dem Hochadel brachte. Stark geprägt von d...

• L'histoire du ballet, qui commença en France au XVI e siècle sous l'influence des artistes italiens invités à la cour, n'a cessé de s'enrichir des influences extérieures.

  Les corrélats Dauberval (Jean Bercher, dit Jean) Gardel - Gardel Pierre Noverre Jean Georges pantomime pirouette Vestris - Vestris Auguste Les médias ballet - langage de l'âme Les livres ballet - le Ballet comique de la reine (1581), illustré par la figure des quatre Vertus, page 532, volume 1 Le romantisme en France Bientôt, on sentit les premières influences du romantisme. Dans l'opéra de Meyerbeer, Robert le Diable (1831), Henri Duponchel imagina des spectres de nonnes sorta...

• Deutsche Geschichte - Geschichte.

  Sein Sohn Heinrich III. (1039-1056), bereits 1026 zum König gewählt, erreichte die Unterwerfung Böhmens und Ungarns und erklärte die beiden Länder zu Reichslehen; inUnteritalien machte er die normannischen Fürsten zu Vasallen des Reiches. In Fortsetzung der Politik seines Vaters erweiterte er das Reichsgut, d. h. den dem König zurVerfügung stehenden Grundbesitz des Reiches, und baute mit Hilfe von Ministerialen die Verwaltung aus, was ihn in Konflikt mit dem Hochadel brachte. Stark geprägt von d...

• Native Americans of Middle and South America.

  A line that snakes across central Mexico near the Tropic of Cancer forms the northern boundary of Mesoamerica; north of this line rainfall sharply declines and theclimate is much drier. The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica all arose and developed in the area between this line and the Guatemalan highlands far to the south. Richvolcanic soils are found throughout much of the region. A2 People and Languages Mesoamerica was a great melting pot, home to many peoples and interrelated cultures. In...

• Western Philosophy.

  the popular belief in personal deities, but he failed to explain the way in which the familiar objects of experience could develop out of elements that are totally differentfrom them. Anaxagoras therefore suggested that all things are composed of very small particles, or “seeds,” which exist in infinite variety. To explain the way in whichthese particles combine to form the objects that constitute the familiar world, Anaxagoras developed a theory of cosmic evolution. He maintained that the activ...

• 861 SUJETS-TEXTES DE L’ÉPREUVE DE PHILOSOPHIE AU BACCALAURÉAT

• William Shakespeare I INTRODUCTION William Shakespeare English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest dramatist in the history of English literature.

  Avon, Warwickshire, a prosperous town in the English Midlands. Based on this record and on the fact that children in Shakespeare’s time were usually baptized two orthree days after birth, April 23 has traditionally been accepted as his date of birth. The third of eight children, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent glovemaker and wool merchant, and Mary Arden, thedaughter of a well-to-do landowner in the nearby village of Wilmcote. The young Shakespeare...

• India - country.

  delta in the north, are intensely farmed. B Rivers and Lakes The rivers of India can be divided into three groups: the great Himalayan rivers of the north, the westward-flowing rivers of central India, and the eastward-flowingrivers of the Deccan Plateau and the rest of peninsular India. Only small portions of India’s rivers are navigable because of silting and the wide seasonal variation inwater flow (due to the monsoon climate). Water transport is thus of little importance in India. Barrages,...

• ?Introduction au XIX° siècle

• Nationalism

• Le XX siecle litteraire

  transformer le réel en fiction. Tous ces bouleversements politiques et sociaux ont des répercussions sur la production littéraire. D’autre part, on assiste au XIX e siècle à une prodigieuse accélération des sciences et au déplacement des limites de la connaissance. On enregistre toute une série de découvertes techniques, parmi lesquelles les plus importantes visent l’invention de la machine à vapeurs 3, du générateur pour l’énergie (le moteur électrique, Gramm...