In ancient Egypt, what role could a woman play in medicine?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo, sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

What was new about the writing system developed by the phoenicians, and why was this important to the growth of knowledge and spread of ideas?

What does the term “escalation” refer to?