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Modern Art Lours: Sparta, in the south-eastern pan of the 'eloponnesus, conquered neighbouring Aessenia in the 700s BC, and by 200 years iter led an association of its other neigh-lours, the Peloponnesian League. In the 'eloponnesian War of the 400s Sparta lefeated Athens, and virtually ruled all jreece. But in 371 BC the other states rose n revolt, and Sparta was overthrown, though : remained powerful for another 200 years.The following week Mr. Carter calls up Mr. Crane and asks him to lunch vith him. He wants to ask his opinion about certain travel plans. They lunch. Zarter tells him enthusiastically, but a bit defensively too, that he is considering aking the wife to Spain and Portugal in the spring. "Did I hear you right? Spain and Portugal?" Crane simply can't believe it. ie wants to know who on earth sold his friend that idea. Really! A first trip hould concentrate on the great cities, of course, Paris, London, Rome, maybe Amsterdam and Brussels. Carter is badly shaken. He talks it over with his wife that evening and after lours of indecision they finally come to the conclusion that it really does make ense to do the big towns. You have to know the main roads of Europe, after 11, before trying the byways.
The final consonants -b, -d, -g, and -r were dropped, and final semivowels appeared, to form diphthongs with the main vowel. The number of tones increased to four. In the majority of the modern art lours Chinese dialects there are usually only two grades of consonants (p and p') and, as we have noted, three consonant endings (-n, -ng, and a modern art lours -r). The four tones of modern art lours Chinese differ from "those of ancient Chinese in that the old first tone has been subdivided into the modern art lours first and second tones and the old fourth-tone words have been distributed among the other modern art lours tones. |
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