Kingdom Of Benin
.... While tribesmen still led the area, the real control was in the
hands of the Europeans.
One of the richest arts that originated in Africa are some of the hand
cast bronzes that came out of the kingdom of Benin. These became known as
the Benin Bronzes. The casting of brass was strictly a royal art and
anyone found casting brass without royal permission was faced with
execution. Whenever a king or a major figure died, a beautiful
commemorative head was cast out of bronze in his honor. These heads were
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Alexander's Empire
.... Macedonia
remained an outland. Growth of trade in the early fourth century promoted the
rise of several cities, yet when Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia, fell in 359
B.C. while fighting the Illyrians the seaboard of his state was largely under
Athenian control or in the hands of the Chalcidian league, grouped about
Olynthus.
Philip (382-36), brother of the dead king, was made regent for the infant
heir, soon set aside his nephew, and became outright king.
Once power was his, the young monarch .....
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The Metis
.... Bay Company. When the
Metis heard this they were alarmed. They feared their religion,their
language, their lands and their old, free way of* life. They had known for
some time that Canada was busy constructing a colonists highway from Lake
Superior to the Red River. The situation became tense surveyors were sent
into the flow of settlers, and it was considered a wise move to have the
surveying well under way before settlement began in earnest. It was decided
to use a system or land survey similar to th .....
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The Ottoman Empire: Focus On Society
.... These leaders also ruled and defended the far-flung
Ottoman Empire.
While the Sultan invested wealth and the leaders protected it, the
majority of commoners, the rayyahs, had the task of actually producing the
wealth. The rayyahs had to pay part of their profits from industry,
commerce, and farming to the state in the form of taxes. Townsfolk,
villagers, and pastoral peoples made up the eclectic mix of the rayyah
class. The word "rayyah" literally translates into "the protected flock of
the Sultan".
Whi .....
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Quebec's Quiet Revolution:
.... ran,
which included hospital insurance, pension schemes and the beginning of
Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with
Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars.
One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire
school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the
teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education
but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a
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RISE AND FALL OF THE HITLER REICHT
.... preliminary examination, the applicant was asked to submit drawings.
Biblical drawings were most preferred. Hitler's drawings were returned
saying they were "too wooden and too lifeless." He was rejected. He tried
three months later and did not get pa Hitler moved into an apartment with
his friend in Vienna. He pretended to be a student living off his
relatives money. He read many books and sat in on the Austrian government
sessions . Hitler speaks of his life in Vienna as "five years in which I
had I .....
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The Atomic Bomb
.... would be released by a fast neutron
chain reaction in one or more of the materials known to show nuclear
fission. That goal was to be completed in 1945 after the U.S.A. spent over
6.7 Billion Dollars on the test bomb named the "Trinity". I t was dropped
on Alagormado in Texas on July 16th 1945.
When Albert Einstein heard about the "Trinity" he called the president
directly and asked for a halt on all atomic bomb projects for he did not
want to hurt anyone with his discovery. But when spies reported t .....
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A Comparison Of The Medieval And Renaissance Eras
.... the rose window, which was a large
stained glass window that was located on the front of the tower; and
squared-off exterior walls, which were a contrast to the usual rounded
exterior designs that people were accustomed to. Overall, cathedrals
during this time could have very elegant features due to the excellent
techniques of support and stabilization. Buttresses, simple extensions of
the cathedral wall to enhance support, and flying buttresses, stone
structures set away from the cathedral wall and .....
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How Were The Greek And Roman Theaters Designed?
.... it was generally a building built of stone
immediately behind the stage that extended to both sides of the stage with
two to three doors in it to provide access to the stage. The parodoi were
ramps that lead from the pit to the outside the theatre to provide access
to the spectators (Molinari, 57).
The book written by Picard and Cambridge entitled Theatre of
Dionysus in Athens describes the theatre as an open-air theatre that was
built into a hillside as many of the theatres of that time were. It was .....
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Fanon's Three Stages Related To The Indigenous People Of Chiapas
.... brute force, but it took the white man to the level of the gods in
the eyes of the natives. The colonizers could easily take advantage of
this reverence. Fanon states "The effect consciously sought by colonialism
was to drive into the natives' heads the idea that if the settlers were to
leave, they would at once fall back into barbarism, degradation, and
bestiality."(Fanon 211) The colonizers, believing the natives were
savages that needed enlightenment, forced European culture upon them. The
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The Holocaust
.... turned on them and helped cause the
Holocaust. At a concentration camp, Jews were ordered to make a sign
saying, "You could earn your freedom from work." When they did that, they
made one letter into a secret message telling the Jews that it was a bad
place, where they die.
In class from the notes I learned that, World-wide depression had
many Germans out of work, and they were hungry. Because of that, the
Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year,
Hitler began a boycott of J .....
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Japanese Canadians During World War II
.... In the first days after Pearl Harbor, 7
December 1941, Ottawa worried about protecting loyal residents of Japanese
racial origin from the mod violence and demonstrations they had long feared.
The RCMP and provincial police immediately followed prearranged plans and
began interning approximately forty Japanese nationals whom they suspected
of having subversive intentions. All the Japanese Canadians had special
identification that is different then general Canadians. The Royal Canadian
Navy began rou .....
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Tennyson As A Victorian
.... of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were ...
of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by
a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by
the same laws." He further says that "these two nations were the richest
and poorest." It was a time when the rich were rich, and the poor people
were poor. The poor or lower class of people went hungry and half naked
throughout most of their lives. Life and death went hand in hand; w .....
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The Titanic
.... the suites had fire places that burned coal in the sitting
room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive suite had five
rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper
class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It
was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about
500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on
the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic,
p.2). D .....
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The Torture Of The Kuwaitis By The Iraqis
.... Although trying to justify what Iraq did to the Kuwaitis is futile,
Iraq did what any starving animal in the wild would do, steal from its
neighbor. "The occupiers looted Kuwait as a matter of policy, reasoning
that the wealth of the 19th province was needed elsewhere in greater Iraq."
(Strasser 36) Iraqis showed no mercy when it came to looting. "The city
the Iraqis left behind appeared to have been worked over by a huge army of
drunken teenage vandals. They stole everything they could, from .....
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