Read the excerpt from "early victorian tea set.” so our tea set is really a three-piece social history of nineteenth-century britain. it is also a lens through which historians such as linda colley can look at a large part of the history of the world: it does underline how much empire, consciously or not, eventually impacts on everybody in this country. if in the nineteenth century you are sitting at a mahogany table drinking tea with sugar, you are linked to virtually every continent on the globe. you are linked with the royal navy, which is guarding the sea routes between these continents, you are linked with this great tentacular capital machinery through which the british control so many parts of the world and ransack them for commodities, including commodities that can be consumed by the ordinary civilian at home. which is the best summary of this excerpt? the tea set has always been an important part of british life. the tea set has become more valuable through the years. macgregor believes the antique tea set to be a symbol of british history. he includes a quotation from a historian to support his point. macgregor believes that the antique tea set belonged to the royal navy. he quotes a historian to prove his theory.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

our founding fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that each person's desire to pursue their idea of happiness was not self-indulgence, but a necessary driver of a prosperous society. they created a government to defend that right for everyone.