What Were the Primary Reasons for the “Fall” of Rome? By 200 BC‚ Rome was quickly becoming one of the world’s greatest empires with their excellent military conquering territory from modern day Scotland to Spain. After the Punic Wars and the defeat of Carthage‚ Rome had full control of the Mediterranean region‚ establishing colonies in North Africa‚ Egypt‚ the Middle East‚ and Asia Minor. Julius Caesar became Rome’s first emperor using his military influence. Under his reign‚ Rome shifted from
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The roles of women in Latin America and Western Europe from 1750-1914 were alike in the neither having many rights‚ but differed in their mindset of the matter and drive to change it. Women in Latin America during this time period were content to remain at home. They saw their duties as being a wife and a mother above all else. These women could not vote. They could not gain a position in business or politics. However‚ they did have the right to participate in political discussions. The lack of
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Latin America has the worst distribution of wealth in the world. The gap between rich and poor is one of the biggest‚ and much higher than it is in the industrialized countries or the regions of the Third World. The continent has an unclear privilege of rich people with a society in extreme poverty conditions‚ while in some countries the proportion of poor has stabilized‚ the absolute number has been growing every year. Because of corruption in the political states‚ lack of social interest in the
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The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe The collapse of communism in eastern europe can be based on three disticnct factors. Factor 1: People Power May: Hungary opens its borders with non communist Austria. Hungarians had already been granted the rights to free travel. However many east germans started using this route to get to west germany. June-August: protests against communist rule In poland continue throughout the summer. In august‚ communist party leaders agree truly free elsections
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The economic and social gap between Latin America and North America is certainly a mixture of path-dependence causes‚ and current economic behaviors. This is mainly because‚ on one hand history legacies‚ are essential to understand the current patter of unequal or unstable growth. On the other‚ economic prosperity is also about the degree to which each region has been capable of changing over time and adapting to external factors in order to create continued growth. Mahoney‚ aims to explain the
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Early Modern Europe; this caused the sixteenth century to acquire the retrospective name of the Age of Expansion or Age of Discovery. According to the historian Richard Mackenney the cause of European expansion during this period can be explained in terms of three major symptoms: overseas discovery‚ population growth and price inflation all of which are tied together in a complex multiplicity making in difficult to isolate one symptom from the others. Alongside these three key factors is another two
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Theorizing Populism In recent years‚ Latin America has seen a rise of presidents with leftist ideologies labeled by many as ‘Latin America’s left turns’. However key differences in the manner these governments respond to and manage majority-minority relations and individual rights‚ as well as their economic criteria and political order has a created a division between the ‘good’ social democrats and ‘bad’ populists. Many scholars such as Francisco Panizza‚ Romina Morelli‚ and Mitchell Seligson
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superiority‚ while xenophobia is directed against a refusal directed against foreigners. Therefore this growing xenophobia is what has contributed to the growing hostility that the American people and government have against the rapidly growing Latino population. America is a nation of immigrants and although not all Americans are considered immigrants‚ their ancestors were once immigrants. The Latinization of the United States
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Scientific Revolution (1500-1700) began in Europe and was the surfacing of modern science during the early modern period‚ when new growths in physics‚ astronomy‚ chemistry‚ mathematics and biology renovated views of society and nature. It was also the replacement of religious explanations for scientific explanations‚ science is the key to modernity and implies that religion does not have the power to explain. The Enlightenment began in Europe in the 1700’s and spread to many parts of the world‚ it
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What are the factors behind the rise of Mega Cities‚ and to what extent are these urban areas sustainable? Megacities‚ defined by population‚ have at least 10 million inhabitants. In recent years‚ megacities in the developing world have grown rapidly with little or no planning. As a result‚ they face cries of infrastructure‚ poverty and unemployment. The driving force for the rise of megacities is mass urbanisation between rural – urban areas‚ as well as rates of natural increase that are higher
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