Lisa Huang Mr. Birtwell U.S History Honors November‚ 26th‚ 2012 What were the effects of the contact between Europeans and North Americans? Ever since 1485‚ Christopher Columbus‚ an explorer from Italy‚ began to vigorously look for sponsor for his voyage. He presented his idea of sailing to the Atlantic and into mysterious Asia to John II‚ King of Portugal. Yet‚ he was interested in his plan. John II and the royalties thought the plan was unfavorable and unrealistic. When Columbus was about
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What caused the first Arab-Israeli War? All throughout the early decades of the 20th century there had been tension between rival Jews and Arabs as they both believed the land of Palestine belonged to them. But on 14th May 1948 Ben Gurion announced the newly formed state of Israel and that is the main reason to what was the cause of the ‘War on Independence’. After the First World War Britain was given mandatory powers over Palestine as the countries of the Western World believed the
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how is organic architecture and/or organicism defined‚ and how does this terminology vary from example to example‚ changing meaning from the nineteenth into the twentieth century? Organicism: The doctrine that everything in nature has an organic basis or is part of an organic whole. Every object that takes up space and has mass is known as matter. A pen is made up of matter‚ as is a tree and even humans. In the same vein‚ a skyscraper is made up of matter; so can we argue that in its truest
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Europeans didn’t suddenly start exploring just because they could; there were many motives that led to European exploration and expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries. They made people confront the dangerous journey to the new colonies‚ a journey which killed about one half of the people who tried it. People were led by strong motives‚ and even if not all were exactly quite as important to European expansion‚ all of them played a part in it. Taking in mind the medieval attitudes of people at the
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In what ways did the French and Indian War alter the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies? The French and Indian War‚ is a colonial extension of the Seven Year War that ravaged Europe from 1756 to 1763. The French & Indian War most lasting impact was its political‚ economic‚ and ideological effect on the colonial people and Great Britain. These societal aspects and the relations between the two allies changed irreversibly in the wake of the
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The responsibility for the Punic wars greatly shifts from one to the next as both Rome and Carthage were Superpowers in their own right and it was inevitable that there would be a collision and subsequent reaction from any action taken. This exhausting conflict was‚ according to Caven‚ a ‘contest in three rounds’ in which the Romans fought first for control of Sicily‚ then for the leadership of the western Mediterranean and finally to determine the survival or extinction of Carthage. By 270
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Nationalism spread throughout Europe like fire in the Yellow Stone Park. And like fire‚ the effects that Nationalism had caused were both eminent yet horrendous. Nationalism united people into nation-states‚ toppled empires composed of many ethnic minorities‚ and contributed to the outbreak of wars in the nineteenth century. For example‚ Germany was united by Otto von Bismarck‚ France by the French Revolution‚ and Italy by Garibaldi and Cavour‚ all because of the nationalistic effect. They united
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causes that led to World War 2. One of these causes was the signed Nazi Soviet pact between German leader Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Joseph Stalin; this cause triggered the beginning of World War 2. The first reason that the Nazi Soviet pact was a cause of World War 2 was because the agreement Gave Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland because Hitler thought Stalin would be blinded because of the agreement. This caused the war because Neville Chamberlain said he would declare war on Germany if
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As the establishments of our fledgling federation initiated at the launch of the 20th century‚ the inhabitants in Australia lived and worked in a society that the government interfered little in‚ known as the "laissez-faire" policy. This also meant that individuals were left to look after themselves‚ as they had no protection from the government as we do now‚ for example Medicare and insurance. Life in the early years of federation was quite different in comparison to our own community now more than
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Romanticism in English literature of the Beginning of the 19th Century (The Age of Romanticism) Britain became a large trading empire. The cities grew fast. London remained the largest one. In the 19th century Britain was at its height and self confidence. It was called the "workshop" of the world. The rich feared the poor both in the countryside and in the fast-growing towns. Nevertheless the great emphasis was made on the individual based on interdependence of Man and Nature.
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