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- 5141: The Fall of the Roman Empire
- ... of technology. Cheap labour cased the empire not to want development. A reason for this being the insufficience of a deep education. For the schools at that time put a greater emphasis on reading and writing rather than on stimulating intellectual education. The third element resulting in the collapse of the Roman empire was the instability of succession for the throne. At times rulership was passed from father to son, yet ...
- 5142: The Vikings
- ... the farmers and merchants. The slaves (thralls) worked on other people's farms to pay for their share in profits from raids. (Purves, pg. 10) Viking family life did not include much free time for personal enjoyment. They ate slept and worked in one room of their house. The 2 most important objects in the room were the firepit and the weaving loom. There were no cupboards, tier belongings were hung ...
- 5143: The Vietnam Era
- ... in Southeast Asia at the beginning of the war was that the public was gung-ho and behind the government to stop communism. Reporters and cameras were successful at bringing the war up close and personal. Americans were seeing their American GIs being killed. The Tet Offense was a U.S. victory in the field. It was a major loss at home and became the turning point battle of the war ...
- 5144: Explanation of the Holocaust in Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
- ... placed on the individual and the individuals own instinct. According to Freud, the individual was almost certain to conform to the societal conventions through a sense of guilt. In fact, Freud himself wrote that in writing this work it was his intention to represent the sense of guilt as the most important problem in the development of civilization (Freud 85). This sense of guilt held a very high place in the ...
- 5145: The Titanic
- ... many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade deck, the walls were similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris, it was truly magnificent. Next to this was the Georgian reading and writing room for women and next to that was the Smoking room for men. The Titanic had a sense of space and openess (Titanic, p.2) Exactly 860 people worked on board the Titanic. (RMS Deck ...
- 5146: Bosnia-Hercegovina
- ... the (numerous) illustra tions. What follows is a historical/heraldic account, pieced together from these sources, and a few encyclopedias. Bosnia was dominated alternatively by Serbia and, from the 12th c. onward, by Croatia (in personal union with Hungary) until the early 14th c. Typically, the king of Hungary and Croatia appointed bans, or local governors; and, in typical medieval fashion, these bans took advantage of any weakness of the central ...
- 5147: The Aztec Empire History
- ... l). It belongs to a large group of Indian languages, which also include the languages spoken by the Comanche, Pima, Shoshone and other tribes of western North America. The Aztec used pictographs to communicate through writing. Some of the pictures symbolized ideas and others represented the sounds of the syllables. Food: The principal food of the Aztec was a thin cornmeal pancake called a tlaxcalli. (In Spanish, it is called a ...
- 5148: The Odyssey - Comparing The Ro
- ... is obtuse, and will repeatedly flock to the most handsome man. Rustler s Rhapsody is a sardonic parody of the western film stereotypes: the women play very small roles other than Rex O Herolan s personal cheerleaders. However, in the epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer gave souls and personalities to his female characters. Women are not in the story just to please Odysseus; they are important and independent characters that help ...
- 5149: Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia: A Comparison
- ... which to model their revolutions. Times had been changing rapidly, technological improvements in the fields of manufacturing, transportation, and communication made this period of time very different from any other. Hitler spent his time imprison writing his book, Mein Kampf, filling it full of warped ideas of conquest and superiority of one race over another. I think it is strange that such works would go unnoticed with nobody left to watch ...
- 5150: The Battle of the Spanish Armada
- ... that were bitter enemies one day became close allies the next. In 1572, the French decided to join Spain in a Cath-olic alliance against the Protestants. (Howarth 17-22) The second reason was more personal to Philip. He greatly wanted to seek retribution on Elizabeth for all of the anguish she had caused him and his kingdom. For over twenty years, her privateers had been sacking Spanish settlements in America ...
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