1. The English poet, Percy Shelley, said, "We are all Greek." What did he mean by this? Do you agree or disagree? Why? (Think about the Greek contributions to western society.)

Shelley is trying to say that our modern culture, Western culture, owes many things to the invaluable heritage of Greece. The ancient culture of Greece is the craddle of European, Western civilization.

Its great philosophers laid the foundations of current Western philosophical views and concepts; Greek theater left us imperishable dramas and comedies that are still part of our culture; Greek mythology inspired arts and literature for many centuries; our greatest modern sports event, the Olympics, are named after a famous Greek competition. Greek , together with Latin, provided European languages with many words that are still in use in the sciences and in everyday life. Of course, we are all Greek.

Explanation:

the mongolian invasion of china and central asia resulted in a disruption of the silk road as the chinese garrisons lost support from the chinese kingdoms which fell under the mongols. however, as the mongols established a formal dynasty in china, the successors of genghis khan restored the garrisons along the silk road allowing the safe travel caravans again.

i think they came to washington to protest