... or the teacher who has accepted me into AP Chemistry. As a senior next year, I would like to take AP Latin. Latin has helped me in many ways throughout my high school career. Latin's biggest perk is that it helps build an extensive vocabulary. This vocabulary is very useful towards succeeding on the SAT's. Not only that, but my future goal is to become a doctor, and ... it would help me understand medical terminology. Also, Latin is the basis of language in ancient history and therefore it offers ... a clearer comprehension of the broad concept of world history. Through this course I w...

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... by a collection of semi-nomadic clans and rural tribes which more or less were hunters and gatherers around 6000 - 4000 B.C.E. Scholars have determined the location based on an extensive reconstructed vocabulary of Proto Indo-European language, and the habitat it describes. Therefore Proto- Indo European is an artificial reconstructed language (PIE), which was constructed out of fossil words. The break up ... eastern group. These divisions of P.I.E are referred to as Centum and Satem. The sound-shift that happened was the velar sound K in Centum shifted to sibilant S in Satem. Centum is...

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