The French Revolution
.... In his description
of the Monseigneur's "fancy ball," he first presents this notion. The
Marquis St. Evremonde proved to be one of those who concealed any inner
affections, when he ran down the son of Gaspard. His arrogance toward the
lower class was especially apparent in this episode, and seemed to
represent the attitude of all of the upper class toward the peasants.
The time of the Revolution was a time of true affluence and power
for the aristocracy. However, their uncontrollable greed ultimately led to
their deaths at the hands of the lower class. For the peasants, the French
Revolution was about standing up .....
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Causes And Results Of The Crusades
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crusaders nearly annihilated them. Then they started towards Antioch and
defeated them also. Immediately after their victory they were attacked by
the late reinforcements. After the summer and early fall the Crusaders
moved on for their main priority, Jerusalem.
By May of 1099, they reached the borders of Palestine. In June
they camped outside the border of Jerusalem. At the time Jerusalem was
under control by readily and prepared Egyptians. The Crusaders attacked
and with help from reinforcements from Genoa conquered the Egyptians and by
July 15 captured Jerusalem. To purify it they washed the town with the
blood of th .....
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War?
.... worse, spreading communism 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 defe .....
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The Vikings
.... to the
shore. As soon as they got out of their boats the Vikings poured onto land
ripping off the monk's clothing and tearing their bodies apart with their
sharp swords, and sometimes drowned them. Viking raiders tipped over the
cross of Bishop Ethelwold, which was built out of stone. Before they left
that hot day the Vikings had taken all of the monk's treasure, set each
building aflame, and killed the monk's cattle to feed themselves on. Then,
in an instant they got into their ships and left.
This was the first major Viking attack, as you can see it was
pretty gruesome, but they were just getting started. The next .....
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Captain Ron, Pirates, And The British
.... he prepared an army of he's
own and attack by surpprised before they even go get ready to fire back.
Mango was frustrated, he didn't know what to do. The king told him to set
perimeters around every harbours.But Capt. Ron's army was getting bigger
and bigger, though he was missing out on ships. Meanwhile Mango set all the
parameter, and had build over nine ships, but he was missing out on
experience men.
Capt. Ron sent a group of twelve ships to get other boats, but he
ran into Mango's crew. The meeting between the two surprised groups started
to fire at each other. Eventhough Mango had two less boats he won the
battle, onl .....
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The Transition Of Religion And Superstition To Science And Technology In The Middle Ages
.... from life to death, from the
Creation to Doomsday.
At this point in time, the earth was the center of the universe,
with all of planets and stars surrounding it. This belief, originated from
the Church, was called the heliocentric theory. However, as in every
civilization, there were small groups of people who refused to believe what
the Church was telling them. The Church was not necessarily telling them
lies; they were simply dominating religion over common reason and
intellectuality.
Clearly, an age that takes its name from an intellectual atmosphere
cannot be fixed within rigid chronological limits. “In one se .....
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The Persian Wars
.... with three hundred Spartans and 6700 non-Spartans. A Greek
traitor knew Leonidas plans so the traitor led the Persians behind the pass.
Once Leonidas was aware of this he sent large amounts of troops to block
the Persians. They fled and had Leonidas was pinned. The 300 Spartans and
700 Thespians fought to their death.
At Salamis the Persians occupied Athens and then burned down their
city. At the Harbor of Salamis the Greek navy lied. The Persians tried to
blockade them, but narrow striates were at their advantages. The Persians
defeated and sailed from Greece with the remainder of their fleet.
In 479 BC, a war took place .....
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World War I
.... of poisonous mustard gas contributed to the casualties of the war
(Stewart 8).
Unlike previous wars, World War I was fought on the sea and in the
air. This was the first war in which airplanes and zeppelins were used. At
the outbreak of the war, each army had several hundred planes. During the
war, the planes directed shell fire, photographed enemy bases, shot at
troops, dropped leaflets, and battled each other in the air. The Germans
used the zeppelin for observation and for bombing raids ( Young World Book
370). The submarine came into use for the first time on a large scale
during World War I. The Germans speeded up pro .....
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Celts VS Saxons
.... at times. Due to the popularity
of war and bloodshed the Celts had to become used to losing and winning,
not only battles but members of the community also. Individual Celts became
more individually independent and self-reliant do to the fact that loss was
experienced so frequently. Examples of very independent people are the
Germans. This is because of the loss they have suffered through both World
Wars. Their stubborn and self-reliant reputation has been an outcome of
that.
The Saxons became used to the reality that they usually came out on
top of battles either against the Celts or otherwise. Also the Saxons used
advanced .....
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Napoleon: Does History Repeat Itself From People Seeking Power?
.... country out of turmoil, as did Napoleon. Looking to the past, Napoleon
knew what steps to take in order to achieve success. Napoleon devoured
books on the art of war. Volume after volume of military theory was read,
analyzed and criticized. He studied the campaigns of history's most famous
commanders, but his favorite, and the most influential on his strategies,
was none other than Julius Caesar . It was Caesar that Napoleon modeled
himself after the most. He wanted to be as great, if not greater than,
Caesar. But he'd never get taller than Caesar.
Julius Caesar was the Roman leader who changed the course of
his .....
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The Holocaust - The Way It Was
.... first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis
came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third
Reich: May 8, 1945.
The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended
is a difficult concept, but this is an important point, and one this site
hopes to help bring across. The Holocaust was the extermination of people
not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps,
Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet
prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the
Nazis because of their religious/political .....
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
.... 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 at times it was not. Consequently leading up to
many conflicts and civil wars thereby weakening the empire.
The last reason for the fall of the Roman empire was its great size.
For many years the empire grew until it finally came to owning most of
Europe and some parts of North Africa. The empire became too extensive to
control and was therefore subject to i .....
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