The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بيت الحكمة, romanized: Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, refers to either a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad or to a large private library belonging to the Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age.[1][2] The House of Wisdom is the subject of an active dispute over its functions and existence as a formal academy, an issue complicated by a lack of physical evidence following the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate and a reliance on corroboration of literary sources to construct a narrative. The House of Wisdom was founded either as a library for the collections of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the late 8th century (then later turn
There seemed to be two Americas because each side was very different. The east was more urban. It had more cities. The west was more rural and agricultural.
Edo Castle was like Louis XIV's Versailles, a place of fabulous riches, of unimaginable beauty and luxury. Its mammoth granite battlements and gleaming roofs towered above the great city of Edo, the largest city in the world – which we now call Tokyo.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
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Indeed, despite societal mores that demanded separation of the races, "white slumming" (whites intermingling with blacks in black nightclubs) was common during the Jazz Age.
This cross-class socializing did not transfer to broader society because white people only intermingled with African Americans in those moments, enjoying the musical talent of black people. And that's it. Whites were never interested in strengthening their relationships with blacks. Jus saw black people as an artist, to have a good time and have fun in the clubs, with no intention to initiate a friendship.
For whites, was as simple as "I pay for the show, have a good time, establish the necessary contact to interact, and that's it." Segregation still existed under the Jim Crow laws and the black codes.
The Jazz Age occurred during the decade of the 1920s. It was a movement in the United States after World War I. From that movement, a new musical genre called Jazz emerged. African Americans created this new style of music that used the radio to spread the music to all kinds of audiences during the 1920s. Among the famous Jazz musicians of the Jazz Age, we find Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington.
The two characteristics of the Baroque Art are options A) and D). The Baroque period started in the 1600 in Rome and is associated to the Catholic Church during the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The Catholic Church used to Baroque period as propaganda and a way to attract people to the catholic faith again. In order to achieve this, the Baroque period is associated with drama, appeal to the senses, emotional involvement. Baroque style uses contrast of colors and shades in a dramatic way to invoke the senses of the viewers.
Option B) is also incorrect since no comic relief is associated to the Baroque Art
Option C) is incorrect also since the Barroque did not focus on painting Christ and his suffering
Option E) is also incorrect since the objective of the Baroque art is to leave viewers “emotionally moved” and not “emotionally unmoved”.
