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- 10201: Weapons of World War 1
- ... radio gave military commanders the ability to direct the battle over a broader area. The response to the new heavy vehicles was the development of defensive anti-vehicle weapons, including mines, rockets, small missiles, and high powered cannons. Antiaircraft and antitank guns were developed by both sides for use against bombing raids. However German guns were extremely inacurate. These weapons threatened the land battleships in combat. Later the use of highly ...
- 10202: Why Rome Fell (a condensed version)
- Why Rome Fell (a condensed version) The sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I could see glimpses of how this great city must once have looked. The mammoth buildings seem to shed their long years and are once ...
- 10203: The Japanese Colonial Legacy In Korea
- ... and goals and not those of the Korean populace; colonization left Korea with distinct advantages over other developing countries at the end of World War Two. Korea was left with a base for industrializing, a high level of literacy, experience with modern commerce, and close ties to Japan. Japan's colonial heavy industrial plants were located primarily around the Yalu River in North Korea. Because of this the North had an ...
- 10204: The Fall of the Roman Empire Could Be Linked To Many Different Aspects: Army, Citizens, Barbarianism
- ... owned power and thus causing change on top of the Roman Empire elite. According to Andre Piganiol,The destruction of the elite handed over power to a new oligarchy of the newly wealthy and of high officials who came from barbarous elements of the population(3). Piganiol continues to state thatconquered nationalities had in no way lost consciousness of their origin and many were the means of resistance to the ...
- 10205: The Aztecs
- ... to the gods. As the Aztec empire grew so did the human sacrifice. Sometimes the Aztecs performed cannibalism, believing they absorb the virtues of the slain. The sacrificed people were thought to be given a high place in heaven. The average Aztec was a farmer. He lived outside the city and grew crops for his tribe. Farming was the most important means of survival due to the warm, humid climate. They ...
- 10206: The Aztec Empire History
- ... In 1519, the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes landed on the East Coast of Mexico and marched inland to Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards were joined by many of the Indians who were conquered and forced to pay high taxes to the emperor. Montezuma did not oppose Cortes because he thought that he was the God Quetzalcoatl. An Aztec legend said that Quetzalcoatl was driven away by another rival god and had sailed across ...
- 10207: Megellan's Voyage
- ... freezing waters. When all seemed lost, Magellan spotted his two scout ships, the San Antonio and the Conception coming over the horizon, they weren't destroyed after all! They spent the next few days in high winds and raging storms, passing through the strait that would eventually lead them into the Pacific Ocean. On November 28, 1520, things got unusually calm, and Magellan knew he had just passed what he was ...
- 10208: The Roman Legions
- ... to keep enemies from easily gaining an advantage on them when in combat. The whole army slept together in the marching camp. The camp's defenses consisted of a turf rampart, five or six feet high, behind a ditch. The defenses were stronger than the marching camp, they often contained gates, towers, etc. to gain an advantage on approaching enemies. Although the marching camps were very complex and well designed, the ...
- 10209: The Transition of Religion and Superstition to Science and Technology in the Middle Ages
- ... wrong in their faiths. Some famous scientists from the era include Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton. Their contributions to the world were not appreciated by many at first, because of the high level of benightedness and ignorance circulating throughout the countryside. These men, amongst many others, exemplified the first true studies of mathematics, anatomy, and physics. Sometimes the world needs people like these curious men to open ...
- 10210: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- ... a harsh peace treaty. The Treaty of Versailles only proves the old saying 'In war, the loser always pays." Bibliography: 1) Bennett, Geoffrey, Naval Battles of the First World War (1969) 2) Clark, Alan, Aces High: the War in the Air over the Western Front (1973) 3) Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (1992) 4) Gray, Edwyn, The Killing Time: the U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1972) 5) Hayes, G. P., World War ...
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