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- 6741: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... The Germans were attracted by the wealth and splendor of the Roman world, and the Romans admitted them into the Empire, even while resisting their armies. The barbarians came initially as slaves or prisoners of war, then as free peasants to settle on deserted lands, and finally as mercenary soldiers and officers. In the fourth century the barbarian penetration of the Roman Empire was made more violent because the barbarians themselves ...
- 6742: The Fall of the Roman Empire
- ... peace, and anti-violence did not sit well with Christians who lived in an empire built upon a strong army. When Christianity gained prominence in the Roman world, many disliked the idea of conquering and war. Also, the Christian emphasis on a spiritual kingdom undermined Roman patriotism. Many non-Italians, not just Christians, gained prominence in the empire, which led to a decline in traditional Roman values. Some Historians have suggested ...
- 6743: Maya Angelou 2
- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book ...
- 6744: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
- ... pays the ferryman who brings him to the town with a depreciated currency, and is unaware of the depreciation. He later thinks to himself, 'strange things we travellers see', after encountering a man wearing Indian war paint. Unaware of the revolutionaries, he does not realize why the man is wearing the paint. Since Robin was raised on a farm, he knows very little about how to behave and react in a ...
- 6745: Attack of the Normans In 1066
- ... in England during this unsettled time. Various societies rose and fell, until by the 7th century England was a collection of seven primary kingdoms, which historians sometimes call the heptarchy. The kings were frequently at war with one another as they jostled for supremacy, yet at the same time monasteries were established and there was even a cultural renaissance in Northumbria. In the late eighth century the Viking raids began. At ...
- 6746: Machiavelli - The Prince
- ... original ME generation. He believed that people act according to their self interests alone, that people are generally equal in mind and body, and that it is this equality amongst man that causes them to war. Without a superior power to suppress the common power of the individual, man is apt to violence. Machiavelli believed that proper government was a cyclical event, with three stages. The first, tyranny, was the beginning ...
- 6747: The Period After The French Revolution
- ... Although not always practiced in the revolutionary period, the principles of freedom of religion and the press, as proclaimed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, resulted ultimately in freedom of conscience and in civil status for Protestants and Jews. The Revolution paved the way also for separation of church and state (Brainard). The French Revolution ended absolute monarchy and paved the way for a better overall government. National Banks ...
- 6748: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... he became convinced that India would receive no real freedom as long as it remained in the British Empire. Early in WWII, he demanded immediate independence as India s price for aiding Britain in the war. He was imprisoned for the third time, from 1942 to 1944. Gandhi s victory came in 1947 when India won independence. The subcontinent split into two countries (India and Pakistan) and brought Hindu- Muslim riots ...
- 6749: The Chernobyl Accident
- ... number of human victims. It is estimated that over 15 million people have been victimized by the disaster in some way. It has also estimated that ultimately the accident will claim more victims than World War II. It will cost over 20 Billion dollars to make these people healthy. (Medvedev 1) Thirty-one lives were lost immediately, and more than 800,000 people were involved with the cleanup. (Cochems 2) Many ...
- 6750: The Bombing At The West Bank
- ... to terrorism. I feel strongly that the way in which our leaders are going about peace, is absolutely detrimental to the safety of Israel. Throughout years of history, no land that was conquered during a war was ever returned afterwards. I dont feel that Israel should have to give up land (which was clearly ours to begin with according to our Torah) in order to have peace. If a real ...
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