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- 2551: The Hundred Years' War
- ... wool and linen market. 8 English sheep growers sold their long fine wool to weavers in Flanders, across the English Channel. Flemish weavers as well as English sheep growers depended on this trade for their business. In 1336, Philip VI arrested all the English merchants in Flanders and took away all the privileges of the Flemish towns and the craft guilds. Resulting in the Flemings revolting against the French control and ...
- 2552: The Ancient Mariners of the Mediterranean and Ming Dynasty China: A Comparison of Seafaring in the Ancient World
- ... Mediterranean and Ming Dynasty China: A Comparison of Seafaring in the Ancient World Audaces fortuna iuvat! This Roman motto which literally means fortune favors the bold has been cited as a common adage used by business men during the apogee of Roman Imperial domination. Most historians who have studied the Roman world of the first and second centuries AD would most likely agree that the seafarers under the protection of the ...
- 2553: Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
- ... scale property ownership, which is also an important step towards private ownership. There is also a stronger entrepreneurial spirit among lower class society. Yet with the lack of any experience in private proprietorship and private business practices the population of the Russian Federation is still not taking to the new system. For too many years it was imprinted on them that everything must be publicly owned. Much of this can to ...
- 2554: The Marshall Plan
- ... gave his name and authority to the plan to rescue Europe. His only advice to the policymakers: "Avoid trivia." The unveiling came in a commencement speech at Harvard on June 5, 1947. Wearing a plain business suit amid the colorful academic robes, Marshall was typically plain-spoken and direct: "Our policy," he said, "is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." The response in ...
- 2555: The Slave Trade
- ... whites. Still today hatred towards blacks continues in many parts of the country. The beginning of slavery was more than just inhumane treatment of one group of people by another; it was also a huge business enterprise that actually led to economic growth. This is why so many countries were reluctant to give it up. It is the easiest thing in the world to overlook right and wrong when there is ...
- 2556: Turkish Free Zones
- ... where the valid regulations related to foreign trade and other financial and economic areas are not applicable, are partly applicable or new regulations are tested in. Free Zones are also the regions where more convenient business climate is offered in order to increase trade volume and export for some industrial and commercial activities as compared to the other parts of country. With the objective of increasing export-oriented investment and production ...
- 2557: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... wares at state-fixed prices, and through legal private vendors and the black market (the illicit sale of commodities), which sold at prices set by supply and demand. State outlets did the overwhelming percentage of business. The consumer cooperatives, confined to rural areas, were indistinguishable from the state outlets by the 1980s. Private vendors were limited by law to a few kinds of personal service (such as tutoring or baby-sitting ...
- 2558: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... only a dim indication of what the future held for European Jews. Anti-Jewish aggression continued for years after the passing of the Nuremberg Laws. One of these was the "Aryanization" of Jewish property and business. Jews were progressively forced out of the economy of Germany, their assets turned over to the government and the German public. Most, if not all Jews in German-occupied lands were rounded up and taken ...
- 2559: The Holocaust
- ... only a dim indication of what the future held for European Jews. Anti-Jewish aggression continued for years after the passing of the Nuremberg Laws. One of these was the "Aryanization" of Jewish property and business. Jews were progressively forced out of the economy of Germany, their assets turned over to the government and the German public. Other forms of degradation were pogroms, or organized demonstrations against Jews. The first, and ...
- 2560: World War I
- ... beginnings. Many believed that war could have been avoided if Germany was not involved. But was Germany completely to blame? Could conflict and the Great War have been avoided if Germany had minded its own business? Were they fully deserving of the fault for War? Or was the whole world, not just the Balkans, a Powder Keg, filled with alliances, imperialism, nationalism, and militarism, waiting for a spark to set it ...
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