London has encountered many challenging situations in its existence. On September fifth of 1666‚ a fire ignited by Thomas Farriner’s bakery spread rapidly through the city of London. Farriner started the fire in the oven to cook bread;however‚ he forgot about the fire and went to sleep. His house went up into flames‚and the fire began to spread through the streets of London quickly. The great fire lasted over a span of four days. The fire eventually destroyed thirteen thousand and five hundred houses
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early life and works were strongly influenced by the literati who were a tight‚ close-knit group that met at pubs and social clubs to discuss‚ critique and debate each other’s work. While they both had early influences that would later drastically affect their views and works‚ Adam Smith was clearly the most influential of the two based on the changes to the Western world and culture. When you look at the political effects of both Smith and Marx’s philosophies you see a world dominated by a capitalist
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certain type and amount of soil to grow properly. Also‚ the Appalachian Mountains and the dense forests provided a barrier for the colonists‚ preventing them from going too far west right away‚ and causing the colonies to form in the arrangement they did. Finally‚ the population was the most dense in middle colonies‚ such as New York‚ New Jersey‚ Delaware‚ and Pennsylvania partly because of the mild landscape and fertile soil. Early in the 1600’s‚ John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas discovered tobacco
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the plague broke out‚ many people did not understand what the source of the plague was so they blamed it on people. In Germany and other parts of Europe blamed the Jews by saying they had poisoned the water (“Sin”). The Jews were arrested and they were put to death by being burned. For the next several centuries the Jews were treated harshly and the plague is one reason why. Another group‚ known as the Flagellants‚ believed that the plague was from God because of how sinful mankind was (“Sin”). They
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By the end of the stock market crash‚ $16 billion had been lost from New York stocks. In addition‚ many banks had invested their deposits in the stock market‚ causing these banks to lose their depositors’ savings as stocks dropped. Even people who did not invest in shares became broke as $140 billion of depositor money was lost and 10‚000 banks failed. The stock market crash had such a great
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Department of Homeland Security and the USA Patriot Act. Also‚ Congress passed the Intelligence of Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The Intelligence of Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 was signed by President George W. Bush that affects the US federal terrorism laws. Congress had to pass these programs to make a change in America so we can prepare ourselves as a whole to not have another terrifying attack on our people or nation again. The Congress has been a big help with passing
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At the time when Columbus arrived‚ and in the years following‚ the American continent was a type of natural paradise compared to the highly inhabited and structured countries of Europe that explorers had come from. While the abundance of resources did influence the way in which Europeans treated the land‚ the predetermined economic mindsets carried over from a more resource-deprived Europe worked simultaneously to promote a general attitude of disrespect and overuse of nature in America. This complicated
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The importance of this class in the Empire was very different from the East India Company. It did not gain from the monopolization of the export of the Indian handicrafts. As this class started to grow and began to attack the monopoly of the company. In 1793‚ the British industrialists forced the company to grant them the use of three thousand tons
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During his life as a young man Simon Bolivar was sent to Europe to complete his education. It was during this time that he became familiar with the ideas of the enlightenment. These liberal ideas will plant a seed for growth during Bolivars return to his home country. As the American Revolution was fought the ideas spread; first to France then to Latin America. Simon Bolivar will spend his life trying to liberate Latin America from Spanish rule. The Enlightenment‚ also known as the Age of Reason
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The Black Death on the surface was a terrible thing in Europe and all it did was kill people. If you dig deeper you realize that the Black Death wound up having a positive effect on Europe’s economic future. The lasting legacy of the Black Death should really be the good it did for Europe’s economy and how it enriched lives of generations of Europeans. The first way the Black Death helped the European economy was that it led to the fall of feudalism. Feudalism was a burden on the European economy’s
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