The Reign Of Terror
.... eye. No matter what the French may claim, if one chooses to open
his eyes and read about this tragedy, they are most certainly welcome.
The revolution begins quietly in the fiscal crisis of Louis XVI's reign.
The government was running deeply into bankruptcy, and at the urging of his
financial advisors, he called the Estates General. The governing body had not
been called for almost two centuries, and now it's workings seemed outdated. A
small number of people said that the Third Estate, that which was drawn from the
towns, should have power to equal the other Estates. Clubs of the bourgeoisie,
the middle class, wer .....
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The Reign Of Edward VI
.... written by Protestant reformers.
Reformers predominated the Privy council under Somerset, and reform was
popular amongst the gentry of the time. But outside London and East Anglia
Protestantism was not a major force. In terms of religious hardening, it is
unlikely that the surge of Protestantism had any particular long term impact
outside these areas. It was only in these areas that violent iconoclasm took
place. Elsewhere far more moderate reforms such as vernacular Bibles and
services were introduced.
The legislation of the Somerset era also did little to aid a definite
hardening of religious policy. The Privy council remain .....
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"Restore The Emperor Expel The Barbarians": The Causes Of The Showa Restoration
.... is not an easy story to relate. The
transformation in Japan's governmental structure involved; the historical period
between 1868 and 1912 that preceded the Showa Restoration. This period of
democratic reforms was an underlying cause of the militarist reaction that lead
to the Showa Restoration. The transformation was also feed by several immediate
causes; such as, the downturn in the global economy in 1929Footnote5 and the
invasion of Manchuria in 1931.Footnote6 It was the convergence of these external,
internal, underlying and immediate causes that lead to the military dictatorship
in the 1930's.
The historical period .....
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The Song Dynasty
.... and appointed on government posts. From this time on,
civil servants became China's most envied elite, replacing the hereditary nobles
and landlords.
The Song dynasty only extended over to the parts of earlier Chinese
empires. The Khitans controlled the northeastern territories and the His Hsia
controlled the northwestern territories. The Song emperors were unable to
recover these lands so they were forced to make peace with the Khitans and the
Hsi Hsia. They gave massive amounts of payments to the barbarians, under these
peace terms, it depleted the state treasury and cause heavy payments on
taxpaying peasants.
About 100 .....
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The Taiwanese Development Model Since 1960
.... opposition movements and loosening of the KMT"S grip on power. According to
Gold this was because the changes in the Taiwanese economy brought about a
middle class, a better educated populace, and a dispersion of industry through
out the country. The Period from 1973 to 1984 Gold calls the time of industrial
upgrading and the emergence of a political opposition. During this period Taiwan
faced the oil shock, and increase in export prices due to a labor shortage that
doubled workers salaries, a further loss of geopolitical prestige, and the
growth of dissent and political opposition. Taiwan industrially during this time
improved th .....
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Titanic
.... Lee had
come on duty at 10 P.M., the sky was cloudless and the air clear. At around
11:30 P.M., just half an hour before they were to be rewired, a slight haze had
appeared, directly ahead. And about two points on either side. Suddenly - his
training causing his reflexes to function instinctively. Fleet gave the warning
bell and immediately reached across the crowns nest to the bridges telephone. In
its compartment on the starboard side. He rang ms bell urgently. Fleet replaced
the telephone and gripped the crowns nest rail.
At 11:40 P.M., April 14 , 1912 ; The lookouts spotted the iceberg a
quarter-mile ahead. Had they .....
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World War 2
.... War 2.
Although there are many other reasons, he was definitely one of them. Another
reason was the Treaty of Versailles. This was the treaty that was signed at the
end of World War 1. This treaty outlined the rules that Germany must follow
because of their defeat by Britain and France. Many Germans were angered by the
treaty, for most of the rules in the treaty were unfair and Germany lost a great
amount of wealth. One of the cruelest reasons for the war was Hitler's racist
hate for Jews. He would send them off in cattle cars to places called
concentration camps were they would be slaughtered by the thousands.
World W .....
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Ancient Greece: A Time Of Great Cities And Lives
.... more than twice as many shops and people than the city already held.
Although women in the world today are always talking about women and
their rights and how they deserve to be equal in everything that they do and
receive, it was not a problem to Greeks in their society which has been
described as a place where women's freedom was restricted and their lives were
restricted to that of a slave in some cases but was really no different than a
women's freedom in today's society. In Greece it was a mans world in which a
man could do what he pleased to a certain extent of the law. Which is better
than today due to women's rights mo .....
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Why Rome Fell (a Condensed Version)
.... the work; however, I will attempt to show some of Gibbon's Causes for
this decline.
Two of Gibbon's causes are the political blunders of its emperors and
their search for personal glory. These are especially obvious in his chapters
on Constantine. In them Gibbon accuses the emperor of destroying Rome for his
own personal glory. Another cause would have to be the anti-Roman nature of
Christianity. Gibbons argues that the ‘insensible' penetration of Christianity
was fatal to the empire by undermining the genius of a great people. On a
pessimistic note, Gibbon also lists as a ‘causes' the inevitable collapse of all .....
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War?
.... across the world now that his “one-state” notion had been fulfilled.
It also must be mentioned that Stalin is seen as wanting “unchalleged personal
power and a rebuilt Russia strong enough to withstand ‘caplitalist
encirclement.'”1
Admittedly, the first view of Stalin, as an imperialist leader, may be
skewed. The Russians claim, and have always claimed, that Stalin's motives were
purely defensive. Stalin's wished to create a buffer zone of Communist states
around him to protect Soviet Russia from the capitalist West. In this sense,
his moves were not aggressive at all -- they were truly defensive moves to
prote .....
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The French Revolution
.... nobiliaire
in the fact that it formed a basis of mistrust, and anger for the monarch.2 In
that time the feudal system was still being practiced, so social status was
based on the amount of land you could attain. With no land, the nobles saw
themselves to be as common as the common folk. Even in their arrogance they saw
that they were losing power. The next blow to the pride of the nobles came from
Louis XV, who passed a bill to let wealthy commoners purchase prominent spots in
political and social positions. This event shows how corrupt and money hungry
the government had become, by letting anyone get high up in the politi .....
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The Suez Crisis Of 1956: The War From Differing Viewpoints
.... in relation to the war, nor will it try to determine which factors were
most significant. My aim will be to gain a more complete understanding of the
effect of the crisis by reviewing key events of the war from two different
perspectives: the Israeli and the Arab points of view, plus the experiences of
the European powers as well. Through a brief comparison of both the coverage of
the War by the differing authors and the varying interpretations seen throughout
my study, I will be best able to make an informed evaluation on how the event
was, and is today, seen in the political and historical forum.
Comparison of Coverage
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