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Aztec
Number of Words: 1866 / Number of Pages: 7
... was considered a serious offense even punishable by death. In the s culture there were clans, each clan there was tribes and each tribe was divided up. Then each family were allotted sufficient land for its maintenance, if no one else were alive in the family, then the land were reverted back to the tribe. Urban communities, the land were communal, each group called capulli was composed of a few families that jointly owned a piece of land. Then part of the yield was given to the state as a tax. Rest of yield would be either sold, traded or for their own use. There were two kinds of farmer, fir ...
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History Of The Car
Number of Words: 1769 / Number of Pages: 7
... the advantage of not having to wait until steam was generated gave them clear superiority over the steamers, and the self-starter took away the principal advantage from electric propulsion. At the beginning of the century, petrol driven internal-combustion motor car had established itself as the dominant mechanical road vehicle and started its expansion with great rapidity (Ware 291).
In 1894, the French newspaper La Petit Journal introduced a new invention to the wider public by organizing a trial run of motor cars from Paris to Rouen. In 1895 the race was organized from Paris to Bordeaux ...
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The Renaissance And The Church
Number of Words: 510 / Number of Pages: 2
... which intern brought new products and goods to Western Europe.
In the year 1305 the Roman Catholic Church was relocated from Rome to France. With this the power of the papal states was divided among the region's leading families. Starting near the year 1300 the demand for reform began to grow at a rapid pace. By the 1600's close to half of the practicing Catholics in western Europe had left the Church to join one of the new reformer religious groups. This reform brought about new ways of thought and new attitudes towards religion and the human race. The young German scholar realized that ...
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Asian American
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the 1940’s was a transitional period for all Americans and minority groups.
During this period of American history, America was one of the most modern countries in the world but still facing economic turmoil. The Great Depression put most people out of work and made big businesses hit an all time low. Americans from every walk of life were affected by this terrible event. But the event that brought the United States out of the Depression could not really be considered a blessing.
December 7, 1941 was a day that changed the course of history and would plunge all Americans into war when ...
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Comparison Of Hitler And Stali
Number of Words: 1793 / Number of Pages: 7
... three reasons will prove that Hitler and Stalin were similar in many ways.
The names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to understand how Hitler and Stalin used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means, is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as their tool to further their ideas and help them gain the backing of the people in their countries. The form of propaganda that Hitler used, and ...
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Carthage And The Punic Wars
Number of Words: 1220 / Number of Pages: 5
... animals from Africa, fruit, and nuts.
Carthage had two first class ports. One was a trading port which was
rectangular and the other was a man-made military port which was circular.
These two ports were connected by a canal. The Carthaginians also had great
communication since they controlled the sea, the fastest way of communication at
that time.
The Carthaginians began a 240 year long struggle for survival with the
Greeks then the Romans in the year 410 BC. It all started when the Sicily city of Segesta asked for help against its mortal Greek enemy of Selinius. Carthage, in a lightening ...
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The Vietnam Era
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... communism. Reporters and cameras were successful at
bringing the war up close and personal. Americans were seeing their
American GIs being killed.
The Tet Offense was a U.S. victory in the field. It was a major
loss at home and became the turning point battle of the war. The U.S.
military lost American home backing. Americans turned against the war
because it was not part of "our" problems. American soldiers were being
killed because we were trying to solve their problems.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated
in 1968.
Kent State University was the site where pro ...
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Slavery
Number of Words: 1218 / Number of Pages: 5
... they imported poor, white indentured servants from Europe to clear forests and cultivate fields. It was the English colonists that incited the idea of using Black slaves. They could be caught easily because of their color and they could be bought and kept until they died. "Negroes, from a pagan land and without exposure to the ethical ideals of Christianity, could be handled with more rigid methods of discipline and could be morally and spiritually degraded for the sake of stability on the plantation,” wrote historians John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr. in "From to Freedom" (22). Where Amer ...
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Ronald Takaki A Different Mirr
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... English considered to
be beneath them. This association was the beginning of creating an “Indian Race.” The Indians were different then Irish in they had a reddish tint to their skin. This was important because this lead further to their separation by their color. The Indians were further looked at as savages based on their culture. “They were seen as incapable of becoming civilized because of their race” (Takaki, 36). This thinking lead to the belief that the Indians were worthless and simply impeding the spreading of a civilized culture.
Indians from this point began to be dehumanized even f ...
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Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
Number of Words: 2186 / Number of Pages: 8
... encouraged by détente. Ultimately, the expectations that détente would achieve more were held by both powers. It was the failure to satisfy these expectations which led to its demise. Kissinger suggested that "détente, with all its weaknesses, should be judged not against some ideal but against what would have happened in its absence. Détente did not cause the Soviet arms build-up, nor could it have stopped it. However, it may have slowed it down or made it more benign" (Garthoff 1994:1123). Perhaps détente could be viewed, not as a method of preventing or deterring ...
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