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- 5961: Tupac Amaru And The Comunero Revolt
- ... visiting officers of the Spanish navy, once famously condemned the system of "being so cruelly wicked, that it appeared as if it were imposed on those people as a punishment"...and that "a more tyrannical abuse could not be imagined"4. In order to "compensate" for the decision of dispossessing the "corregidores" of their annual payrolls. The controversial "repartos", received the crown's legal license in 1750. History has left it ...
- 5962: The Mongol Invasion of China
- ... Tibetan 'lamaist' monks who controlled all the Chinese clergy and interfered in political affairs, the oppression suffered every day by the Chinese population and the growing poverty of the peasantry. In the end the orphaned child of itinerant peasant parents, Chu Yuan-chang, would lead a rebel army against the Yüan tyrants, successfully driving the Mongols first out of North China and then in 1368 total expulsion was complete. The rebellion ...
- 5963: The Catholic Church and The Middle Ages
- ... to impede Luther’s movement. He opposed the Catholic doctrine of faith and good works for salvation, instead proposing a doctrine of salvation through faith. His publishing of the Ninety-Five Theses, which covered the abuse of indulgences, is often seen as the beginning of the Reformation movement. However, the movement was not only confined to Luther's Germany. Native reform movements in Switzerland found leadership in Ulrich Zwingli, who eventually ...
- 5964: The Treaty of Trianon
- ... to the constitution, political establishment, public administration, and legislation. There were minority rights outlined in the Treaty of Trianon, but these were largely ignored or abused. Hungary even made appeals to international forums describing the abuse of Hungarian minorities, but little was done. Romania even went to far as to say that the accusations were “external interference in internal affairs.” Minorities faced many injustices in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but now ...
- 5965: The Boxer Rebellion
- ... profound direct affect on China and the Boxer’s perception of the west and added to internal pressures was through Catholic missionaries. One major element of discontent produced by these missionaries is their use and abuse of political power for their converts. Esherick states that, “Christian duty required foreign missionaries to intervene to defend their converts in all manner of disputes...occasionally dishonest persons will try to misuse the kindness of ...
- 5966: The Suffering of The Jews In The Holocaust
- ... little town named Hamburg. Hamburg is a city in the north central Germany on the Elbe and Alster River. Its full name is the free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Ellen Goldstein was the third child out the four kids. In 1933 Ellen started to see how things was changing even though she four she knew that something wasn't clear. When she turn six she started to figuring out what ...
- 5967: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... world order. Remember it is the only force which can attack a country despite being a long distance away. Judging by NATO's reaction to Kosovo, I have enough reasons to believe that NATO may abuse its military force in future. Fourthly according to NATO, it started airstrikes because there was ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. NATO had denied its planes bombed refugees, but later it admitted it had bombed the vehicles ...
- 5968: The Slavery of Africans
- ... process outweigh potential benefits. The final case against the organized business of reparations for slaves is that the indemnifiers… the question of who ought to bear responsibility for repaying the slaves for their oppression and abuse. Is there a certain group of people that ought to be most responsible for the reparations - should the average citizen pay for slavery? Both are questions which cannot be sufficiently responded to. No single person ...
- 5969: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... and possible foreign intervention from undermining the infant republic, Sun agreed to Yuan's demand that China be united under a Beijing government headed by Yuan. On February 12, 1912, the last Manchu emperor, the child Puyi (), abdicated. On March 10, in Beijing, Yuan Shikai was sworn in as provisional president of the Republic of China. Republican China The republic that Sun Yat-sen () and his associates envisioned evolved slowly. The ...
- 5970: The Yugoslavian Conflict
- ... war in Yugoslavia that needs to be discussed is the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina like all the conflicts in Yugoslavia was a result of aggressive and uncompromising political abuse of national feelings. "The main strategy of the parliamentary formations of each of the three groups was mass expulsion, popularly known as 'ethnic cleansing,' of the other two groups." (Crnobrnja pg.179) In October 1991 ...
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