South Africa represents a diversity of human experiences which includes the inception of farming as way of life‚ and the construction of large urban centres. Moreover‚ it is a territory where along the years we can identify different shifting systems of beliefs‚ technological and economic changes due to European cultural influences. The first European influence appeared in 1488 when a Portuguese ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. In the next centuries‚ both the British and the Dutch
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World War I has been a controversial topic in the sense that who should take responsibility for not only causing it but how it brutally affected the world. Professor V. R. Berghahn makes the argument that evidence indicates Germany’s role in World War I was the main factor responsible for the conflict. To prove his argument he focuses on the framework of Germany’s economy‚ society‚ culture‚ and politics from 1871 to 1914. While Samuel R. Williamson argues that the factors and conditions that led
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Second Mid Term Essay Johann Gottfried von Herder wrote much about nationalism. John Hobson wrote of imperialism‚ and Charles Darwin of natural selection and “survival of the fittest.” First I will discuss nationalism from Herder’s perspective. Second‚ I will discuss imperialism from Hobson’s perspective. Then Hobson writes about how nationalism leads to imperialism. Last‚ I will discuss the assumption that “nineteenth-century European societies were engaged in a struggle for existence among themselves
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World War I‚ which is otherwise known as the ’Great War‚’ has been the subject of debate between historians and history enthusiasts alike for over a century. There is no definitive evidence as to who was directly responsible for the outbreak of war among the Powers. The questions I have to ask myself are‚ “Who instigated the War to end all Wars?” and‚ “Who fired the first shot?” In this essay I will answer these questions to the best of my ability‚ as well as sharing my own thoughts and opinions
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Name 09/23/14 World History The Economic and Political Causes of European Exploration and Colonization By 1400s‚ European countries began to dominate the globe with trade and advanced technologies. England‚ Spain‚ France and Portugal emerged as the strongest nations in the 1400s and 1500s. For reasons separate for each‚ the dominant European powers desired to expand their reign beyond Europe. Europeans began exploring various economic reasons‚ but they did not want to set up colonies right away
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html The 1940’s were dominated by World War II. European artists and intellectuals fled to the United States from Hitler and the Holocaust‚ bringing new ideas created in disillusionment. War production pulled us out of the Great Depression. Women were needed to replace men who had gone off to war‚ and so the first great exodus of women from the home to the workplace began. Rationing affected the food we ate‚ the clothes we wore‚ the toys with which children played. After the war‚ the men returned
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To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? In August‚ 1914‚ 6 million men mobilised for war on the European continent. It was the bloodiest war that had been fought yet in history due to huge advances in weapons and technology. This question of who was to blame for the war has been debated many times by many historians. Germany was responsible for its beginning to some extent but that extent can be argued
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during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Intellectuals in the eighteenth century formed liberalism‚ which the economic leaders during that time readily adopted for the sole reason that it would help them generate more money‚ as a reaction citizens formed conservatism. The existing social construct was being questioned by supporters of liberalism which led to supporters of the current social arrangement forming conservatism to counteract that. In the late nineteenth-century working class liberalists
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Germany was responsible for the outbreak of World War One’. How far do you agree? World War one has become to be known as "The Great War". It was known as "The War to end all Wars". Many people believe Germany was responsible for the outbreak of war in 1914. To solely blame one country or one single act for the cause of World War One is wrong as there are more than one country involved and more than one event that caused World War One. Even if Germany was responsible for the war the other major
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How significant was the First World War in bringing about the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917? The abdication of the Tsar in 1917 is still talked about today; the reasons are still disputed to this day. There are three main views; the optimist view which states that Russia was on the right path but the First World War slipped Russia into revolution. This view is supported by A.Gerschenkron who says‚ “That in the absence of war‚ Russia could have continued in the road of progressive
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