The Cuban Revolution
.... young. Health care was improved, infant mortality rate has dropped
from 60 to 11.1 which is comparable to industrialized nations.
Even with all the good changes their are hardships do go with them.
Castro took over business's, some of which were owned by foreign investors,
collecting some of the revenue to help Cuba's economy. Some of Batistas
followers and the wealthy fled to the U.S. to escape the taking of their wealth
or being jailed. On April 17, 1961 the CIA arranged a invasion with 2000 exiles
to .....
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The Development Of Ancient Systems Of Writing In Iraq And Egypt
.... two to three centimetres in size, and used for enumeration and keeping
track of goods and labour.
These tokens eventually had to be stored so they wouldn't be misplaced or
lost. To secure them, they were placed in opaque clay envelopes. To indicate
what was inside the envelope markings were made on it, eventually someone
realized that all you had to do was mark on the clay what was in the envelope
and you discard the tokens altogether. With this major development we get the
first writing on .....
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Did The Expansion Of The Aztec Empire Lead To Their Downfall?
.... given to the state as a kind of tax.
Technology depended more on human skills than on mechanical devices.
Iron and steel were unknown, although copper and bronze were used for tools and
Mexican jewelers made ornaments from gold, silver, and their alloys. Wheat,
barley, cattle, horses, sheep, and goats were unknown until introduced from
Europe and the Mexicans were efficient farmers who made full use of irrigation,
terracing, and fertilization of the fields.
Aztec Mexico was rich and civilized. The state .....
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People And Events Of World War II
.... of Japan's naval forces during WW II. He had a clear grasp of the
situation and predicted that against a country like the U.S. or Britain, Japan
would quickly lose the war. He died in 1943, shot down by the U.S. 13th Air
Force in a surgical assassination strike.
The last, Tojo Hideki, was born in 1884, and was the most violent of the
three. He was the leader of the militaristic party that controlled the
government from 1926 to 1945, and the one who commanded the Japanese invasion of
Manc .....
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History Repeats Itself
.... New World. Spain was the first
country to start an empire and consequently started a trend. Once HOLLAND
gained their independence from Spanish rule, at the beginning of the seventeenth
century, it moved on to become a great power. Holland had relied on seafaring
and the economic success of Amsterdam until around 1620. "By mid-century,
however, they had used their technical sophistication and control of vital raw
commodities to build successful industries . . . and supported by Holland's
bourgeois .....
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The Holocaust
.... the few people who deny the occurance of the Holocaust and rather
call it the Hocsacaust. The Holocaust just means exactly what is in the
dictionary, "great or total destruction especially by fire." And by no means is
the genocide of European Jews, and other groups by the Nazi Germany during WWII.
To me the Holocaust means the most current gigantic thing to happen to a
group of people. In my opinion, not the last either. To those of you who say
that there is no way this is going to happen again, .....
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict
.... Jews were not just a
religious or ethnic group but were a nation of people who should have their own
state. Today Zionism is the term for Jewish nationalism.
Not all Jews agree upon what Zionism is, but to a point there is
agreement, it is upon three things: there should be a Jewish state; it should be
permanent, independent, and secure; and Jews who are threatened anywhere in the
world should be able to go there to be safe. All other issues--the boundaries of
the state, the nature of government, relatio .....
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Lenin And Problems After The October Revolution
.... defeated Germany. Lenin managed to end the
war that had for so long depressed Russia's resources and morale. He succeeded
in focusing on the severe internal problems of the new government, and in “
saving the socialist republic” . One of the largest problems that Russia faced
prior to the October Revolution was finally ended, though its effects were still
to be felt.
Almost immediately afterwards, in 1918, Civil War begins. The battling
White Army divided amongst different leaders and interests lef .....
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The Neandertals
.... return and the Neandertals would always be forced south again. The
Neandertals could be found as far north as England and as far south as Spain,
from Gibralter to Uzbekistan.
Neandertal bones have been found in the Neander Valley and Dusseldorf
Germany, in Altamura, Italy and Vindija, Croatia. These are major sites for the
European caves the Neandertals lived in. Although the Neandertals went to the
southern tip of Italy, they never crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Africa. They
migrated from central .....
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Ancient Egypt
.... river they had no
chance of survival. First of all the main food the Egyptians ate were bread
made from the grain grown with the precious silt and water from the Nile River.
Barges and boats made with papyrus reeds or wooden planks(used after 3,000BC)
were filled with different thing such as grains were floated downstream and
carried by the current, or if they needed to be floated upstream, you would
simply just raise the sails up and the ship would sail upstream, the Egyptians
invented sails at approxima .....
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Spanish Conquistadors: Heroes Or Murderers
.... if any was given in return. The people who live among these
reservations try to preserve the “old way of life.”
Another thing taken from the Indians of Americas was their way of life.
One thing almost all people hold close to their heart is their way of life
whatever it may be. The Indians however were persecuted for their beliefs and
either killed or converted to the “Spanish Catholicism” or many other varying
ways of life. This conversion did not take place peacefully. Many resisting
Indians died for t .....
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The Battle Of The Spanish Armada
.... Even the ancient Romans would have
been envious of its size. (Walker 15-19)
Religion was one of the compelling motives behind the actions and
ambitions of Spain. Philip's father, Emperor Charles V, had established himself
as the guardian of Christendom. He also had the dream of uniting all of the
Christian European nations against the Turks and the Moors, who had been
terrorizing Catholicism from one end of the Mediterranean to the other. However,
his dreams were hindered with the coming of the Protest .....
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The Congress Of Vienna
.... during the Nineteenth century it had
begun the urge to form a nation. Liberalism supported nationalism at that time
because it united people in a common cause. On the other hand, Conservatives
feared nationalism because of its threat to overthrow the traditional political
order.
The goals of the Congress of Vienna were the Balance of Power, which
meant no nation would be too strong or too weak. Another goal was the Return
of Monarchs. Louis XVIII issued a constitution to return. The Congress of
Vie .....
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The Downfall Of The Middle Ages
.... feudal lords were put into an economic squeeze. As one
may see, that didn't leave much of a place for the nobles, who were rapidly
losing power. Another thing that contributed to their loss of power was the
enforcement of Common Law, which applied throughout the kingdom.
The effects of the Hundred Years' War hastened the decline of the feudal
system. The use of the longbow and firearms made the feudal methods of fighting
obsolete. Monarchs replaced feudal soldiers with national armies made up of
hir .....
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The Extermination Of The Jews
.... a better and more efficient way to kill off the Jews Hitler thought.
The Nazis and SS, another Anti-Jew German group, referred to killing Jews and
exterminating their race and making Germany a dominate race of just Germans the
"special treatment" and the answer to the "Jewish Question."
After about a year or two 1.4 million Jews were killed by the Nazis or
in death camps. Hitler's ideas also spread across Eastern Europe. Germany's army
spread into the Soviet Union and the Netherlands. More J .....
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