The Crusades: Both Failures And Successes
.... Land. They set up four states
and introduced feudalism. English people inhabited the land for 200 years.
Eventually, the Turks recaptured several important cities and a
second Crusade was called for. This time, two kings led their armies to
take back the land. This Crusade and sever others to follow failed. The
Turks kept the land.
Though England did not regain the land the Turks had taken, the
Crusades were not a complete failure. Because of the Crusades, trade
increased, new lands were explored, .....
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Chinese Occupation Of Tibet
.... plant.
This problem has not been dealt with for nearly 60 years. The United
Nations has failed to punish China for any of its human rights abuses. Major
corporations from around the world continue to do business with China. Last
year, despite continuing pressure, the United States renewed China's Most
Favored Nation trading status. Unfortunately, since China represents such a
potentially gigantic market, politicians are reluctant to impose any trade
sanctions.
The Chinese government c .....
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The Titanic - History Of A Disaster
.... Smith to do. It was almost midnight and he gave the order to take to the lifeboats (Lord, Lives On 82). This decision brought Captain Smith face-to-face with the fact that there were 2,201 people on board and enough lifeboats for only 1,178 people (Lord, Lives On 83). The Captain was going to have to make a choice as to who would be the first allowed on the lifeboats. Around 12:30 a.m. the bridge informed the crew that only women and children would be loaded on the lifeboats (Eaton,Haas,152) .....
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World War II In Europe
.... and night by hundreds of German planes. The fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force, however, kept the German from gaining control of the skies over Britain and forced Hitler to abandon his invasion plan.
When Hitler attacked Yugoslavia and Greece in the spring of 1941, the Nazis overran those countries before lend-lease aid could reach them. When Hitler's bombers failed to knock out Britain, he ordered his submarine fleet to starve that nation into submission. By the end of 1941, American and German w .....
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Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
.... its vassal border states'i
Hitler wanted to exterminate and enslave the 'degenerate' Slavs and he wanted to obliterate their 'Jewish Bolshevist' government before it could turn on him. His 1939 pact with Stalin was only meant to give Germany time to prepare for war.
As soon as Hitler controlled France, he looked east. Insisting that Britain was as good as defeated, he wanted to finish off the Soviet Union as soon as possible, before it could significantly fortify and arm itself. 'We only have to .....
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Rebellions Of 1837
.... and were successful. Due to the success of people in the French Revolution ideas went into peoples minds. The idea caught on everywhere including Canada. People thought they could bring about similar or possibly more rights for themselves. Another example is the Great Migration, where many people migrated to Canada. The increased population meant more people and more thoughts and ideas heading towards rebellion. A third example is the Industrial Revolution. It began in Britain, then spread thr .....
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The Effects Of The Great War
.... the advantage of a common language with reports of the Germans looting, raping, and killing innocent civilians. Germany used the propaganda trying to use the tension between the U.S. and Russia knowing that there was no love loss between the two. One very important factor with America trying to stay neutral was the trade barriers between the two sides. At first the neutrality was toward both sides, but with the British placing a naval blockade on shipping to Germany the neutrality became one-sided. .....
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Shih Huang Ti
.... wall would serve as a barricade to keep out all tribes that wanted to invade China. It also served to separate the civilized acts of the farmers in China to the barbaric acts of the nomadic tribes. What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attackin .....
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The Moche Period
.... "Vessel" were painted with scenes of both ceremonial and everyday life. From these pots, archaeologists know that Moche society was very class conscious. This particular ceramic is decorated in reddish brown over a white background with a Moche priest performing a ritual beneath a starry sky. Such a ceramic would have been actually used in a religious ceremony to store various sacred liquids needed for the completion of such an act.
The most important people, the priests and warriors, were members o .....
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Description Dominance Of Greco-Roman Culture
.... would regard
that as a sign of weakness in us, whereas your
hatred is evidence of our power...(Our subjects think)
that those who still preserve their independence do
so because they are strong, and that if we fail to
attack them it is because we are afraid.
The Athenian people were not directly threatened by the Melians and therefore had no practical reason to attack them. Their primary motivation was, obviously, to assert their dominance, their excellence, upon the Melian people. I .....
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The Boxer Rebellion
.... culture and western studies. The third major decision between managing western powers and ignoring them. The Chinese leadership made key decisions which led to the ultimate demise of Imperial China. So I will look at the impact of outside influence on China and how China reacted to the pressure. Finally, I will look at the impact of the Boxer Uprising.
China’s first major change in policy with regard to the west was set with the Portuguese. The Portuguese first attempted to trade with China, ther .....
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Neoclassical Period
.... unimportant. Believed in divine order, a rational and moral universe, and in constant human nature, overall effort towards stability.
While the Romantics, from 1798 until 1832, emphasized a number of ideas that were a reaction against the proceeding "Age of Reason". As Shelley stated, that the literature of the age “has arisen as it were from a new birth”. They concentrated on innovation rather than traditionalism in their material, forms and style of literature, and introduced symbolism. Wordsworth w .....
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The Conflict In Kosovo
.... panic , all there was. People wandered around in shock. Survivors said they scrambled through debris. Firefighters doused the flames of Serbian homes. The direct hits caused almost unrecognizable ruin. NATO didn't expect any dead bodies but it was possible that one of the bombs fell short. NATO's overnight raids hit targets throughout Yugoslavia, including bridges, airfields, petroleum installations, police headquarters and air defense installations. They don't want to leave anything out. Search and Dest .....
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The French Revolution
.... numerous quarrels between the first and second estates with the third over individual freedoms and economic rights.
The second revolution of 1792 occured because of the growing dissatisfaction of groups such as the Jacobins toward the constitutional monarchy. These groups were interested in forming a republic, allowing for more radical reformation at the hands of the people. The Jocobins themselves soon became divided, however, between the Girondists, who wanted a representative and more conservative .....
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Philippine Annexation
.... of the United States. Beveridge also felt that the people of the Philippines were of “barbarous race”, and that by the United States taking control, in my opinion, could civilize them. On the other hand Mason felt that these people were just like anyone else, and that they should be able to live the way they have always lived. Mason also felt that it was unfair to govern the people of the Philippines given that they lived ten thousand miles away. He felt that how could a senator set laws to people that .....
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