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Since in ancient times, in all human cultures, children transfered from biological parents to parents that want them to create family, for political alliances, for inheritance, for a future marriage, or to care for elderly parents. The practice of adoption was fairly common in different places and periods. Adoption is mention on Bible and Quran. Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Babylonians had adoption systems.

Studies by French scholars of ancient Egyptian and Babylonian records purport to describe accounting methods in use over two thousand years ago. The number of documents translated and analyzed is too small to justify such generalizations. The interpretations of the records is doubtful, due to the very different economic environment in which they were created. In any case, there is little of interest to the present-day accountant in the study of primitive and obsolete accounting practices.

The divisions of labor and the classifications of work in ancient times are described, and an early four‐part classification is compared with that of the present Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Egypt and the Levant from Prehistoric Times to the Hyksos -- CHAPTER ONE Villages, Camps, and the Rise of a Colossus -- CHAPTER TWO Upper and Lower Egypt and the Walled Towns of Asia -- CHAPTER THREE "Lo, the Vile Asiatic!" -- CHAPTER FOUR "Trampling the Foreign Lands": Egypt and Asia during the Middle Kingdom -- CHAPTER FIVE The Hyksos in Egypt -- PART TWO: The Egyptian Empire in Asia -- CHAPTER SIX "Extending the Frontiers of Egypt" -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Empire of the New Kingdom -- CHAPTER EIGHT Asia in Egypt: Mosaic, Not Melting Pot -- PART THREE: The Great Migrations -- CHAPTER NINE The Coming of the Sea Peoples -- CHAPTER TEN "These are the Bene-Yisrael. . ." -- PART FOUR: Egypt and the Hebrew Kingdoms -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Horses and Pharaoh's Daughter: Egypt and the United Monarchy -- CHAPTER TWELVE Egypt and Israel in the World of Assyria -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Specter or Reality? The Question of Egyptian Influence on Israel of the Monarchy -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Four Great Origin Traditions -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Egypt and the Fall of Judah -- Epilogue -- Index

The article presents the data of ancient times philanthropy that stemmed from community life and was a consequence of the social nature of man; in Rome, for the first time, social and educational activity was formalized, which resulted from moral and legal norms; in the Judaic religion, help to the needy was treated as one of the most important religious practices. The article discusses the most important forms of social aid in the Western antiquity. Charity, volunteering presented as important components of the social and educational activities of modern institutions. The author emphasizes the need for the formation and development of humanistic consciousness, spiritual and moral consciousness of citizens. Therefore, cooperation between educational institutions, families, non-governmental organizations, volunteer movements, charitable foundations for the expansion of active charitable activities, and the creation of a humanistic society is required.

Armenian national identity has long been associated with what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Immersing the reader in the history, culture and politics of Armenia - from its foundations as the ancient kingdom of Urartu to the modern-day Republic - Gaidz Minassian moves past the massacres embedded in the Armenian psyche to position the nation within contemporary global politics. An in-depth study of history and memory, The Armenian Experience examines the characteristics and sentiments of a national identity that spans the globe. Armenia lies in the heart of the Caucasus and once had an empire - under the rule of Tigranes the Great in the first century BC - that stretched from the Caspian to the Mediterranean seas. Beginning with an overview of Armenia's historic position at the crossroads between Rome and Persia, Minassian details invasions from antiquity to modern times by Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, Persians and Russians right up to its Soviet experience, and drawing on Armenia's post-Soviet conflict with Azerbaijan in its attempts to reunify with the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1918 the Republic of Armenia announced its independence as the first modern Armenian state since the Middle Ages. In 1920 it became the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, thus acknowledging Armenia as an administrative entity which would form the basis for the independent state established in 1991. Now, on Armenia's 100th anniversary of its first assertion of independence in modern times, this book questions an Armenian self-identity dominated by its past and instead looks towards the future