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Ancient Civilizations
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 491.... an idea of republicanism overthrew the monarchy. The Romans thought that this would keep any one person from gaining too much power. The most powerful governing body was the senate. The senators elected two consuls each year. The consul’s jobs were to supervise the business of government and command the armies. They could only serve one term, which was one year in length. Julius Caesar overthrew this by having the senate name him “Dictator for life.”
Greece was one of the most powerful civilizations of its time. The Athenian government evolved fr .....
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HITLER, MUSSOLINI, STALIN
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1058.... at home. His father, Alois, was used to giving orders and having them obeyed from his kids because of his occupation in the civil service. Therefore, he was very strict. Alois Hitler never had a pleasant relationship with any of his children.
Hitler was said to have a really good singing voice and took part in his school's choir. He also was a very smart boy, doing well in school.
Hitler was very religious, idolizing his priests. At age nine, he was caught smoking a cigarette by one of his priests but was forgiven and had no punishment.
Hitler was obsessed with German .....
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French Revolution
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1077.... but neary so, while the peasents and middle
classes were subjected to greater and greater burdens. Crops falied, and
trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the
government faced bankruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only
soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of
their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to
contribute some additional taxes, they never understood how grave the
economis crisis was. They say the crises as only some form of financial
corruption that could be explained away by .....
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Kosovo 3
Number of pages: 31 | Number of words: 8504.... y la República Veneciana (Istria y Dalmacia). Después que fuera aplastada la insurrección de 1690 en la vieja Serbia, unas 70 mil personas se refugiaron en territorios de los Habsburgo. El Imperio Otomano trasladó a musulmanes albaneses a los territorios abandonados (Kosovo y Metohija).
A principios del siglo XX continuaron los conflictos: la resistencia serbia al Imperio austro - húngaro provocó el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando de Austria, hecho que marcó el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al final de la conflagración que determinó la caída del im .....
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Irish Potato Famine
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1093.... that history by political
organizations with agendas to cover. Therefore, in an examination of the "famine", one must begin with the
facts. Once the facts have been revealed, one may move to explore the truth (or falsity) of the history which
developed around the circumstances. This information can lead to a sound judgment in this scenario.
The world was lead to believe that the Irish famine was caused solely by a blight, "which destroyed the potato
crop, the food on which more than half the population lived." Much of the world perceived the situation to be a
grea .....
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Irish Immigration To Canada
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1473.... found themselves eating the rotten potatoes only to develop and spread horrible diseases. ¡§Entire villages were quickly homeless, starving, and diagnosed with either cholera or typhus.¡¨(Interpreting¡K,online) The lack of food and increased incidents of death forced incredible numbers of people to leave Ireland for some place which offered more suitable living conditions. Some landlords paid for the emigration of their tenants because it made more economic sense to rid farms of residents who were not paying their rent. Nevertheless, emigration did not prove to be an antido .....
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Civil War - Gettysburg
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 793.... Though not serious, General Lee had shrapnel wounds to both legs and concussion and command had passed to his deputy, Jackson. Jackson sent for Lieutenant-General Longstreet and ordered him to get his artillery onto the Tops and commence bombardment of Meade’s forces. Cabell’s Battalion of Artillery is despatched to Big Round Top and commences an immediate cannonade. Alexander has despatched half his cannon to assist and by 7.00pm 67 cannon are belching their deadly breath down on Cemetery Ridge.
In the pitch dark lit only by the shell bursts of the Confederate fire the Unio .....
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Aztecs 4
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 528.... the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city aqueducts (piping) were constructed, bridges were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by pilled up mud. On these chinapas Aztecs grew corn, beans, chili peppers, squash, tomatoes, and tobacco. Tenochtitlan (the capital city) was covered in giant religious statues in order to pay their respects to the gods. In the Aztec religion numerous gods controlled an Aztec's daily life. Some of these gods include Uitzilpochtli (the sun .....
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