power under the great Genghis Khan‚ and during the 13th century they created the largest empire in history. The Mongols during the 1300s were very known‚ and feared by many‚ it was almost rare to find areas that hadn’t heard of the Mongols. These “barbarians” ruled over many areas‚ expanded across almost all of Asia; and killed millions of people wherever they went. Mongols ruthlessly slaughtered many people‚ and used many tactics to ensure their victory. The Mongols
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Britain at war Unseen archives Chapter one The opening moves By the morning of the 3th september 1939 war was inevitable. Prime minister neville chamberlain broadcast to the nation at 11.15 a. that this country is at war withg germany this declaration followed britans issuing of an ultimatum to germany to withdraw from the polish territory they had attacked and occupied in the early hoin urs of the 1st september
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Multicultural Britain The 21th century Great Britain is a richly diverse society and culture‚ and the British people belong to a melting pot of ethnic backgrounds‚ languages‚ cultures and religions. The transformation of Britain into a multicultural society has happened rather quickly. There have been ethnic minorities in Britain for hundreds of years‚ but it was not until the last half of the 20th century that immigration to Britain really took of. At the beginning of the 1950s‚ Britain’s
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From the research I have done‚ Alexander “the great” was not that great of a ruler. I can support this textual evidence from a few documents we studied in history class. On the contrary I can see where some people might think that he was great‚ but all in all the not so great parts outweigh the great parts about him. Let’s begin with the fact that he sent his troops out to destroy every building in Athens. What kind of ruler does that? When I had first read this I started thinking okay this guy
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LIVING AT HOME AND LIVING AWAY FROM HOME Nowadays‚ society develops very fast. A human’s life is enhanced and children grow up faster than the past generations. They can do everything; can learn as soon as they want to be dependent from their parents. For them‚ life without parents is freedom‚ paradise. But they don’t know they must face many problems if they live alone and far from their family. So living at home and living away from home have problems that people should understand clearly before
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The Luftwaffe Needs Lessons from the Brits: An Investigation of Hitler’s Defeat at the Battle of Britain By: Jake Pilla Global History II 11-28-07 In 1940‚ German planes flew over Britain in an attempt to take over the country and tear apart the enemy’s alliance. Britain was surprised by this attack‚ but countered by shooting down at least twenty planes of the Luftwaffe‚ the Nazi air force‚ during the initial attack. Hitler sent waves of planes into Britain every day‚ trying to lower
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Imperialism can be justified based on certain intentions. When Leopold surreptitiously deceived African leaders into signing treaties giving them complete power over Africa‚ it demonstrated the first step of his desire for a colony. The main agent which triggered Leopold into dominating the Congo was because every other European power had their own colony‚ conveying a feeling of discontent in Belgium. This discontent was the cause of the imperialization of Africa. Based on evidence from documents‚ Leopold
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Justified Violence Violence has become accepted as a common means to achieve an end. Whether it is for power‚ subduing another country during interstate conflict‚ or an attempt to gain legitimacy‚ violence has become a distinctive force in contemporary society. The more important question that needs to be addressed is when this use of violence is justified‚ if ever. The purpose of the government‚ according to Locke‚ is the preservation of natural rights. When these freedoms are not protected in
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Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire. On June 28‚ 1914‚ Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ Sophie‚ were in Bosnia to inspect the empire’s military forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (History 1). The annexing of this land caused Serbian unrest (History 1). Ferdinand was scheduled to visit Sarajevo‚ so a few Serbian nationalists conspired and planned his assassination. While Ferdinand and his wife were in a car‚ Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a bomb in an attempt to kill him (History 1). However‚ it rolled
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survive. Why did so many colonists die? Some of the reasons why the colonists died were because of disease‚ bad water and droughts so they couldn’t grow food. The diseases were bad because the English were coming with disease which was bad because when one person got it pretty much everyone got it. In the summer of 1607 nearly half of the settlers died from disease. In total‚ nearly 130 people died from disease in total. I got this from documents (E/A/B)this just shows you that diseases were really
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