‘The British Empire was a force for good.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? The British Empire had had a huge impact on the world. Although there are some negative aspects‚ such as harming multiple cultures‚ they still established some things that made the world a more efficient place; a common language‚ means of transport and communication‚ and technology. One of the biggest reasons why the British Empire was a force for good was the spreading of the English language. In many countries
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Why did Britain establish an empire? The British established an empire for many different reasons‚ most of which were to benefit England itself and few to help other countries. The five main reasons that will be discussed in this essay are: power‚ economy‚ trade‚ religion and development of other countries. One of the first reasons that Britain established an empire was because of religion. Matthew 28:19 states: ‘Go ye therefore and teach all nations’. Some christians took this literally and took
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One of the most remarkable civilizations to date has been the Roman Empire. It began around 500BC as the Roman Republic and would survive for about 2‚000 years. The Empire went through various phases and peaked during the second century. It controlled a huge part of what are now Europe and even a part of Africa. In 476 CE the Roman Empire fell‚ however‚ the influence of the Roman culture still stayed for a long time after. Yet‚ what made the Roman civilization so great? In addition‚ how does it compare
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of science during this period. With the growth and intensification in the arena of mathematics‚ astrology‚ astronomy‚ medicine‚ Chemistry‚ Metallurgy‚ Botany‚ Zoology and Engineering Gupta period gained a striking facet. Mathematics under Gupta Empire In the realm of arithmetic the most important achievement was the discovery of the decimal system of notation. It was based upon the principle of the place value of the first nine numbers and the use of the zero. Geometry attained great heights
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The Iberian’s American empire was one of the largest and influential in history. As always‚ throughout history‚ great empires were driven by their social structures‚ economic systems‚ military expeditions‚ and so on. In the Spanish American empire‚ the social structure was paramedical. The foundation of the society was a cast and a class system. The most high ranked was Spaniards (Peninsular born in Europe) and were followed by Creoles considered as Europeans but born in Americas. African origin
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“Was Ireland a colony of the British Empire?” The literal definition of a colony is: “A subject territory occupied by a settlement from the ruling state.” Whether or not Ireland fell under this classification‚ in its unionist days‚ is hotly debated. One could argue that because Ireland was incorporated into Great Britain as a single kingdom‚ was included in parliament and involved in colonial affairs‚ that it was not a colony itself. However one could
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Introduction: The Jews enjoyed complete freedom and had a very liberal situation in Rome and the Roman Empire during the early period of BC. In spite of them enjoying freedom there still had to suffer a certain amount of restrictions. Racism on Jews was predominant during that era and was also prevalent during the reign of Augustus Caesar which eventually led to the destruction of Jerusalem. [The Legend of Augustus] As early as 6 AD‚ there was the annexation of Judea which meant the nation of
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The first important factor that contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire is the introduction of Christianity. As the Roman Empire got bigger‚ new lands and people were taken into it‚ the conquered people added their Gods or religions to the Roman Pantheon. Before Theodosius made Christianity a main Roman religion‚ Roman religion was polytheistic. Through out the majority of the Empire’s reign‚ Christians had been treated with contempt and were looked upon as criminals. This is evident through
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The Ottoman Empire had a very complex government system‚ however it was very organized with everyone having a certain job. It often happened that only men worked in the government. The empire was multinational‚ meaning it spread across many nations‚ it covered almost all of southeastern Europe. It was also dynastic which means they had a line of hereditary rulers‚ during the 600 years that the empire was standing it had a line of seven hereditary rulers. They had an absolute monarchy government‚
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frequent and violent changes in leadership have sent to people living outside the Roman Empire?” And I answered it “ It tells people that they didn’t want to be Roman‚ because they are very violent.” But one of the most important questions on the quiz was “ How does this document help explain the decline of the Roman Empire?” Which to me I think that Document A helped explain the decline of the Roman Empire because they didn’t have the greatest protection and that there soldiers were becoming very
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