To What Extent Has The Berlin Wall Impacted the Modern World? Post World War II there were many tensions surrounding Europe and especially Germany. The major powers of the war the U.S.A‚ Britain‚ and the Soviet Union agreed to require Germany’s unconditional surrender and by May 8‚ 1945 Germany had officially surrendered. They all agreed to set up four zones of occupation in Germany and also in Berlin to be run by their three countries and France. Since the division of Berlin tensions rose between
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three would persecute‚ rape‚ and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were persecuted for their religion. One example as to why the crusades overall had a negative effect on the world is because many Christians and Muslims all over the world were persecuted. Pope Urban II writes in his Call to Crusade speech‚ “Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows… What shall I say of the
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Approximately 11 million people died while Hitler was in power‚ although his legacy lives on. Adolf Hitler overcame adversity in his early life with school and his family‚ and later on made a huge impact in the world. Born in Austria‚ at a young age Hitler showed astonishing intellectual potential and had many friends. Later on when competition in school became tough he then gave up because he was not exceling. After being unsuccessful in school Hitler decided to move on with his life and pursue
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Penicillin has greatly impacted the world. If it weren’t for the accidental discovery of this antibiotic‚ the development during the war‚ and its mass production‚ the lives of 82‚000‚000 people may not have had a second chance. That is a grand amount of people’s lives that penicillin accounted for. Penicillin was initially noticed by Ernest Duchesne‚ a medical student in 1896‚ he did not go on to explore it because he didn’t think of it as something that would be influential. Later on in 1928
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Galileo was born on February 15th‚ 1564 in Pisa‚ Duchy of Florence‚ Italy; recognized as the father of modern science. Galileo was a very educated individual who was interested in many subjects. He displayed the most affection towards mathematics and physics. Galileo’s father’s wish was for him to become a doctor but was intent on being a university professor. After graduating from the University of Padua‚ he became an educator and brought mathematics there. One day‚ Galileo noticed a chandelier
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Dawson Ellington Oct. 7‚2013 The early bronze age or iron age civilization of people that has had the greatest impact upon the modern world in my opinion was the Ancient Romans. We have similar characteristics to them and Ancient Rome is where most of our ideas of government‚literature‚ and entertainment came from. We are similar in government because we basically have a modernized version of their government. The Ancient Romans started the first republic. They had a senate(a main governing
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There have been many religions that have been created across the world since man has been here. Islam was started by a man named Muhammad he created what is now Islam in or around 622 A.D. He started as a merchant that worked in Mecca and then left the city for 13 years while he was wandering he had visions that God was talking to him and telling him to form a new religion. He then came back to Mecca and started to preach to the people there. Mecca at the time was mostly polytheistic‚ and while
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Mozart is one of the most influential composers and musicians of all time. His creative genius has inspired emotion in hundreds of people. Mozart’s music has stood the test of time‚ finding itself immersed in the modern world as well as an integral influential part of the past. Though suffering from a troubled life‚ his music spurred the classical period not only impacting the music of his time but that of many future generations. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756‚ in Salzburg
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Miguel Cervantes was a great influence to the spanish world. He was one of the first people to write a modern novel " The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" or Don Quixote. The son of a deaf surgeon‚Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29‚ 1547 he died in April 23 in 1616 in Madrid Spain. He left a great legacy that inspired many of the things we have today. In the next couple of paragraphs I will talk about how he impacted the the world with his literature. In his early
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Ancient China’s Impact on The World The ocean‚ the desert‚ extremely tall mountains and very high platoons‚ all of these geographical barriers made it virtually impossible to get well into the thriving civilisation of Ancient China. Ancient China was a very lonely civilisation being so far away from any other major civilisations and having so many barriers protecting them from the outside world. While no other people came to Ancient China‚ it learnt many new things without anyone else to help them
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