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    New York City’s soaring skyline wouldn’t be the same without the Empire State Building. Reaching 1‚250 feet‚ it hold the title of the seventh tallest building in the world. It remained the worlds tallest building for 41 years until the World Trade Center topped it off and seven followed. Built during the depression in 1930 and 1931‚ it cost a whopping 41 million dollars. The engineer who took on this giant project was H.G. Balcom. The design of the building changed 16 times during planning‚

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    The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most powerful empires in the world. The nation was a colossus; at its height‚ the empire controlled most of Europe‚ North Africa‚ and Asia Minor. However‚ the empire’s vast territory proved to be difficult to maintain; groups from all over the world began to move into the empire and invade the nation. More problems in addition to heightening conflicts began to proliferate as the empire crumbled. The deterioration and collapse of the Roman Empire was the result

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    Decline of Roman Empire and Rise of Christianity The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires ever. The empire was very strong for the most part. The Roman empire fell because of internal problems in the the society and government. It didn’t fall drastically: it slowly lost power. The Roman Empire was huge‚ so the government had a lot of responsibility. The government even divided Rome into separate parts to be governed by more than one person. At one time the Roman Empire was divided into

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    One of the reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire were political problems. There were several emperors that were unfit to rule‚ they were cruel to the people and greedy. The emperors usually inherited the throne‚ but did not have any knowledge on how to rule and their mentally unstable personality did not help. People asked the Praetorian Guard to assassinate the emperor in exchange for money or a position. When the emperor was assassinated there was no system to replace the him. Civil

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    Empire State Building The Empire State Building Outline THESIS STATEMENT: The Empire State Building did not cause much trouble for New York; instead‚ its construction had many positive effects. Reasons for the Building I. Raskob wanted to make money by renting offices to tenants. A. He wanted to construct a building that offered him the largest number of offices at the lowest price. B. He didn’t care for innovation and style ‚ but he wanted a building that sticks with his budget

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    The Western Roman Empire fell due internal and external forces. The demise of the empire was the result of civil unrest‚ migrating hordes‚ and a weak economy. Basically‚ decay from the inside and pressures from the outside caused the empire to collapsed. First‚ numerous civil wars were fought during the waning days of the empire. The Crises of the Third Century‚ for example‚ transpired as one long series civil wars. The tetrarchy‚ created by Diocletian to stop civil wars‚ turned out to be nothing

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    It is true what they say about travel; it does broaden the mind. In fact most people who travel a lot tend to me more tolerant and open different ideas about the world. As people move from one country to another they begin to realize that all humans have things in common‚ and most of us are trying to do the best we can. Travel makes you not only more aware of your own culture‚ but it begins to make you feel like a citizen of the world. One problem with travel is there is just so much choice available

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    There is no shortage of "explanations" for the fall of the Roman Empire. Christianity‚ the decline people wanting to be apart of the community‚ the growth bad military‚ the unethical government --each of these has been proclaimed the chief cause of Rome’s destruction. In fact‚ however‚ the fall of Rome was bound too happen since the government was so corrupt‚ in basic terms the base of the empire just fell apart and led to the social‚ political‚ economical and military issues. Each document in this

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    DBQ ​Technology in the Han and Roman empires had come a long way since earlier times. However‚ some of the people of these great states seemed to take this for granted. At least that was the attitude I got from three of the documents provided. But‚ mostly the attitude was positive. From the perspective of these government officials and philosophers‚ I perceived an attitude that ranged from very positive to openly negative. ​Two of the negative documents came from upper-class leaders. Document

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    How was the Hunnic Empire destroyed in the Battle of Nedao in 454 AD? The fall of the Hunnic Empire is very momentous because they were such a superior force compared to others at the time that the Hunnic Empire was seen as a force to be reckoned with. I believe the reasoning behind the destruction of the Hunnic empire in the Battle of Nedao in 454 AD is because of the disarray of leadership following the death of the former acting leader‚ Attila the Hun. Following the death of Attila‚ the Hun

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