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    Fall of Roman Empire

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    fall of the Roman Empire The demise of the Roman Empire was caused by both internal and external factors. It was a long process and no single event‚ lost war‚ or decision can be said to have caused it. From the year 217AD until the collapse in 476AD‚ there were only a handful of periods as long as ten years when a civil war did not break out. These wars were not about ideology‚ but purely for political power. The two main factors responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire are: Succession of

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    Republic vs Empire

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    Is it worth losing a republic in order to gain an empire? For: The age of Augustus could be shown as classic example of the benefits of having a empire instead of a republic. He himself ascended to the throne after the assassination of his adopted father and‚ brought peace throughout the total empire which lasted for over two centuries. This was possible as he successfully defeated all the threatening forces to the empire. “Indeed he attracted everybody’s goodwill by the enjoyable gift of peace

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    Maurya and Gupta Empire

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    08/08/11 12:57 AM Indus valley to the Pre-British era : 1. Indus Valley 2. Maurya Dynasty 3.Gupta Empire 4. Mughal Empire 5. Mewar Dynasty 6. Vijayanagar Empire 7. Maratha Empire 8. Ahom Kingdom 9. Kushan Dynasty 10. Satavahana Dynasty I. MAURYA DYNASTY COSTUME Men and women continued to wear three unstitched garments‚ as in Vedic times. The main garment was the antariya of white cotton‚ linen or flowered muslin‚ sometimes embroidered in gold and precious stones. For men‚ it was an unstitched

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    Conflict in A Raisin in the Sun In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the playwright Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of an impoverished African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The Youngers‚ living in a small apartment and having dreams larger than the world in which the live‚ often use verbal abuse as a way to vent their problems. Many times‚ this verbal abuse leads to unnecessary conflict within the family. The most frequently depicted conflict is that between Walter and

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    Charlemagne brought some key administrative developments into his domain‚ which got to be known as the Carolingian Empire. He based on the current arrangement of seignorialism‚ whereby lords gave tracts of area to their nobles in return for faithfulness and administration. Charlemagne conceded vast landholdings called fiefs to numerous tribal military pioneers. Furthermore‚ he delegated various Frankish nobles to the posts of checks (the leader of a locale called an area) and margraves (the number

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    Student Name Professor Name Course Title Date Rome: Engineering an Empire It is said that Rome was not built in a day. True. It took ambition‚ lust‚ murder and the unrivalled power of technology to make the Roman Empire span across three continents and many centuries. While the contributions of ambition‚ conquest and other political and militaristic factors remain important for the Roman Republic to transform into an Empire‚ none of this could have been possible without the immense contribution

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    The Fall of Mughal Empire

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    fall of Mughal Empire Under Aurangzeb’s successors the decay of empire was hastened by several causes and the spirit of lawlessness rampant throughout the land. In such circumstances ruin of Mughal Empire was inevitable. Aurangzeb‚ as a ruler of India proved to be a failure. He hardly realised that the greatness of an empire depends on the progress of its people as a whole‚ largely owing to the emperor’s each of political foresight. The symptoms of the integration of Mughal Empire appeared before

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    The sun rose tranquilly

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    The sun rose tranquilly‚ shedding its nighttime coat and sending warm beams of heat to illuminate the carved obsidian prison. The black rock penitentiary stood out like a spire on the plain‚ its sides smooth from constant battering by the relentless wind. The foreboding presence of the rock seemed to soak in the warmth with a greedy relish accustomed to the cold and opaque silence of the twilight. In the distance‚ a midnight wolf‚ sensing the end of the hunting hour‚ howled its lonely existence

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    Change over Time 2002-2011 Analyze the changes and continuities in labor systems between 1750-1914 in ONE of the following areas. In your analysis‚ be sure to discuss the cause of the changes and the reasons for the continuities Latin America and the Caribbean Russia Sub Saharan Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americans from 1492 to 1750. Analyze the cultural and political

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    04 Spanish Empire

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    The Spanish Empire I. The Conquistadors A. Hernando Cortés (1485-1547) 1. All of the New World was Spain’s‚ except Brazil (ignoring English claims). Cristobo Columbo and his brother had established a handful of small colonies (including Cuba)‚ but in the first 15 years or so of the 16th Century Spain didn’t control much territory; this would soon change. 2. In 1519‚ Hernando Cortés landed in Mexico at Vera Cruz (which he founded). He had 600 men. His orders were to establish a colony;

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