Africa 2
.... Eurasia, and its area is more than three times that of the United States. Its population in 1990 was estimated at 648 million, increasing at a rate of 3 percent a year. The average population density is only 55.5 per square mile (21.4 per square kilometer), but this is misleading because much of the land is almost uninhabitable desert or rain forest. Roughly one third of Africa's total land area is devoted to agriculture, but in nearly half the countries less than 6 percent of the land is cultivated.
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Causes Of The French Revolutio
.... The third estate accounted for ninety-eight percent of Frances population. The third estate was divided into three groups; the middle class, known as the bourgeoisie, the urban lower classes, and the peasant farmers. The third estate lost about half their income in taxes. They paid feudal dues, royal taxes, and also owed the corvee, a form of tax paid with work (Krieger 484).
A second underlying cause was the raising of taxes. The third estate was already being taxed enough, and the nobles refusal .....
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Causes Of The Great Depression
.... things which contributed to the economic deterioration leading to the depression; lingering effects of WWI caused the government to cut back spending in order to balance the budget, resulting in a severe recession. The value of farmland falls 30-40 percent. Severe Declines in organized labor. Many workers lose their jobs as more advanced machinery makes them unnecessary.
The acute phase of the Great Depression began in October 1929, with the Wall Street Crash and continued through the early 1930s. Aft .....
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Causes Of The Great Depression
.... dropped as low as 3 percent, prices held steady, and the gross national product climbed from $70 billion in 1922 to nearly $100 billion in1929 (EV 525). However, the prosperity of the 1920s was not shared evenly among the social classes in America. A study conducted by the Brookings Institution stated, 78 percent of all American families had incomes of less than $3,000. Forty percent had family incomes of less than $1,500. Only 2.3 percent of the population enjoyed incomes of over $10,000. Sixty th .....
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Ceasar Vs. Louis 16th
.... war, and the craft of kingship. It is obvious that Louis has been brought up very different than other young kings. That is what might account for his unique style of ruling. When Marzarin died in 1661, France was shocked to find out that Louis refused to select a first minister (Michael 73). He wanted to rule alone. He chose Jean Baptiste Colbert as his financial advisor. Louis had many goals. His main one was to weaken the power of the nobles. Louis feared the nobles. He .....
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China And Japan
.... Ming, population doubled from 60 million to 125 million. Food supply was on the same pace. They had their fare share of epidemics. The great plague of 1586 1589 and 1639 1644 killed 20% - 30% of the most populated areas. Ming re-populated open lands by re-settling villages and expanding water supply like the re-opening of the Grand Canal in 1415. Silk and cotton dominated the local markets. Silver was a dominate market in the mid 1600s. It was imported from mines in Western Japan. Spanish Gal .....
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Chivalry 2
.... face of reality. For it to have meaning for us in the context, chivalry is tied to martial activities, but in or modern use, I would describe the love in the Middles Ages was the virtues that chivalry describes in its ethic, the same virtues that have endure for more than a thousand years is something from which it is not to easy to withhold respect. It is not the compromise, but the ideal, the romantic ethic, the myth that drove the chivalric class in the society.
The word chivalry is far away from .....
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Capitalistic Punishment
.... to get away with the crime or simply are not concerned with the consequences of their actions. Similarly, those who kill in a spontaneous fit of emotion or while under the influence of drugs or alcohol have not rationally considered the ramifications of their actions. In both instances, no matter how serious or intimidating the threat of punishment may be, the concept of deterrence is questionable at best.
Another questionable characteristic associated with the death penalty is the fallacy that it is .....
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Catherine The Great
.... a convent in St. Petersburg into a boarding school for girls, the Smolny Institute. Catherine imported German, Austrian and French craftsmen to update the Imperial porcelain works. She decided that the paramount task would be to augment techniques in the agricultural regions. When she re-organized the provinces in 1775, she ordered that each provincial capital must have a hospital; each county with a population between 20,000 and 30,000 should have a doctor and all other required assistants. Cath .....
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China History
.... heaven gave a mandate to rule, which sanctioned the political
authority of the kings. During this dynasty the laws were in based of
uniform regulations, they were well-field system, also during this dynasty
the Confucianism has began, with Master Kong (K'ung, Confucius, 551-479 B.C.)
he did not intend to found a new religion, but to interpret and try to
revived the unnamed religion of the Zhou (Chou) dynasty, under which many
people thought the ancient system of religious rule was ban .....
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Civil War-54th Massachusettes
.... the banner of emancipation among the slaves....Men of Color, To Arms!"
Training began as soon as recruits began arriving and continued until the regiment sailed to its first post. On May 12, the 54th reached its full number of 1,000 soldiers. At Colonel Shaw's insistence his men were issued light blue infantry uniforms instead of the darker blue worn by blacks doing support labor for the army. On May 18, Shaw's regiment received a request from General David Hunter, commander of the Department of the .....
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African American Sentiments
.... American soldiers didnft even have decent shoes when they enrolled for the war. Naturally, after all the training, their shoes worn down. If the 54th regiment were composed of white soldiers, the department that pass out shoes would already prepare extra shoes for them. But since the 54th regiment was composed of all African Americans, the regiment was discriminated and there were no extra shoes for them. The other white generals thought the 54th regiment would never go on battlefield and even if they .....
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Cold War Propaganda
.... of the sites. On October 26, Krushchev sent a letter to Kennedy suggesting that the sites would be dismantled if the United States gave its reassurance that it would not invade Cuba." (Whitton, 22) Americas true leaders knew that this was never truly a threat to the U.S but to humor the citizens they did something about it. If the U.S did nothing the citizens would get scared, even more so.
The Soviets had a good strategy in using Cuba against the United States and there idea to get the missiles foun .....
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Communistic Society
.... more direct and involved role in society than it previously had. Government was to control all private property and means of production, thus eliminating the bourgeoisie class and permitting the proletariat to thrive.
In addition, Communists planned for the abolishment of inheritance. They believed this forced each individual to earn his own space in society, and would deny him the ability to simply inherit it. Following death, an owners property (machinery, facilities) would be sold, with a large s .....
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Crittenden Compromise
.... to Presidency in 1860. A major issue that was being tossed around during compromise talks was the 3630' line, established by the Missouri Compromise in 1820. This compromise said that Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state as long as Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, and that the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of this line would be free, and south of it would be slave. The restoration of this line for the remaining territories, and also guaranteeing the protection .....
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