Why did the Achaemenid Empire Fall? Throughout time there have been a number of Persian Empires‚ but none of them can compare to the great Achaemenid Empire‚ which ruled between 550 to 330BC. The Achaemenid Empire is known as the largest empire in Ancient history which stretched out approximately 8 million km² at the height of its power. So how does an Empire so large and with such great power collapse? Was it struggle for power‚ which every new king had to suffer after the death of Darius the
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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Atlantic. In 1912‚ the RMS Titanic sank for a multitude of reasons and events. The hull malfunction made the Titanic break in two which in return‚ caused many deaths. The cracks‚ the booms‚ are all caused by some critical hull failures. The ship did indeed break in two which was due to a probable hull failure. A hull failure due to the slow sinking of the Titanic‚ a huge stress builds up. This stress concentrates on parts of the ship and that’s called a stress-concentration (Deitz). The stress
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Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa‚ Italy and died in 1506. He is the one who discovered the continent of America. He is a navigator‚ colonizer‚ and explorer. He had four voyages to accomplish his goal‚ which was to find the new land that Europeans did not know. Since 1484‚ he suggested supports for many trips to kings or queens in Spain‚ England‚ Portugal‚ and France but all those plans got rejected. Later‚ he got supports from Queen Isabella and King Fernando from Spain. Christopher Columbus started
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History Homework Why Did Hitler go to War? One reason why Hitler went to war was to regain the Honor of Germany which he thought they had lost after their defeat in World War 1. Hitler believed that Germany never lost World War 1 and that the Jews were too blame for the loss but really Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for a reason to start another war and regain the strength of Germany. The Jews were never really to blame for the loss of World War 1 it was the bad management
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The Roman Empire was a great empire and was around for some time‚ but all great things come to an end. Many things took part in dragging the Roman Empire down‚ but the economy and its problems were one of the main causes why the empire fell. As we know the economy is a big part of what keeps a country going‚ however in Rome the economy had problems that contributed to Rome’s fall. The rise of taxes wasn’t easy on anyone. Taxes made most of the peasants’ day to day lives difficult to live. There
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depended on slavery was the number one reason why they didn’t want slavery to be abolished. The Southern economy would go down the drain because they depended on slave labor. Without the slaves there would be no one to work the fields. The cotton economy would collapse‚ the tobacco crop would dry‚ and the rice would be profitable. They also said that slavery existed throughout history and that it was part of the natural being of mankind. Not only did Americans have slavery but also Greeks‚ Roman
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to launch the atomic bomb‚ or to go in person. President Truman made the correct decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan because the war ended much faster‚ he also ended up saving resources‚ and we got revenge from Pearl Harbor. The first reason why President Truman made the correct choice was because war ended much faster. This war ended much faster because in wars‚ usually there’s not much damage but this war caused a lot of destruction and there were lots of deaths in seconds. These deaths were
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Why Did The Roman Republic Fall? Gabriel Feldzamen “The disintegration of the Roman Republic is the first example in European history of the collapse of a constitutional system.” Before the Roman Republic‚ the Roman Kingdom existed‚ and in 509 BC the kingdom was replaced by the republican government. At 27 BC‚ the Roman Republic collapsed‚ and the Roman Empire was formed on the republic’s foundations. The early Roman Republic was greatly influenced by the Etruscans. “The Roman model for their
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Beginning in the 6th century BCE‚ Rome began to take root. Over the next several hundred years‚ it spread its boarders and influence throughout the rim of the Mediterranean and Western Europe. However‚ the empire collapsed in 476 CE. How did this happen? Why did such an influential giant fall? Well‚ despite Rome’s great power‚ it had several internal faults that‚ when combined‚ lead to its eventual collapse. The first reason for Rome’s fall was the instability of the Roman government. The final
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