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Kurds Vs Turks
Number of Words: 4645 / Number of Pages: 17
... ethnic group in the Middle East by the year 2000, displacing the Turks. Furthermore, if present demographic trends hold, as they are likely to, in about fifty years Kurds will also replace the Turks as the majority ethnic group in Turkey itself.
There is now one Kurdish city with a population of nearly a million (Kirminshan), two with over half a million (Diyarbekir, Kirkuk), five between a quarter and half a million (Antep, Arbil, Hamadan, Malatya, Sulaymania), and quarter of a million people (Adiyaman, Dersim [Tunceli], Dohuk, Elazig [Kharput], Haymana, Khanaqin, Mardin Qamishli, Qochan, Sanandaj, Sh ...
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Vikings In Control
Number of Words: 1164 / Number of Pages: 5
... Last, but not least slaves were Scandinavians whose ancestors had been
enslaved.
Each community had a governing council known as a “Folkmood” or “Thing.”
This association had higher rulings than the king and or chief. Here decisions of war
were made, trials were held and they decided who was in what social class.
Parents usually arranged the marriages of Northmen. Even though the husband
was in charge, Viking women had more rights than European women. Some of their
rights were they could own land, share their husbands wealth and even get a divorce at
anytime.
Vikings had their own ...
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Industrial Revolution 4
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... Britain had lots of capital from colonies, in which the quality of goods went down but the quantity rose. Another negative cause and effect of the industrial revolution was that there was dynamo, variety went down there was more uniformity (in the products) and workers and consumers were abused.
There were two different types of systems that Britain had. One was the Domestic system. In which, products were made in the home, quantity was lower but quality was higher, people worked at home and made the entire product from beginning to end, this was a good way to do it but took long hours and hard work ...
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Catherine The Great
Number of Words: 364 / Number of Pages: 2
... German, Austrian and French craftsmen to update the Imperial porcelain works. She decided that the paramount task would be to augment techniques in the agricultural regions. When she re-organized the provinces in 1775, she ordered that each provincial capital must have a hospital; each county with a population between 20,000 and 30,000 should have a doctor and all other required assistants. Catherine's efforts prompted her gentry to follow her example.
possessed majesty without being pretentious. She was neither cruel nor inhuman. Over the years she endured hurtful criticism, rebellion, war a ...
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People In The Government
Number of Words: 2705 / Number of Pages: 10
... of unappropriated rooms in that part of the Capitol.
Signature of documents
4. The Speaker shall sign all acts and joint resolutions passed by the two Houses and all writs, warrants, and subpoenas of, or issued by order of, the House. The Speaker may sign enrolled bills and joint resolutions whether or not the House is in session.
Questions of order
5. The Speaker shall decide all questions of order, subject to appeal by a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. On such an appeal a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not speak more than once without permission of the House.
Fo ...
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Boston Tea Party
Number of Words: 896 / Number of Pages: 4
... taxes within 5 months. Then they (the government ) passed taxes on lead, paint, paper and tea. These acts were called the Townshed Duties, but the colonists called them the "Insidious Acts". Mass meetings were held and people tried to influence others not to buy English imported goods anymore. In the end the parliament removed all the taxes except for tea. Actually the colonists easily didn't want to accept, to pay taxes to a government, they don't really belong to anymore. Although this tax on the tea cost a colonial family just pennies a year. Sam Adams, a kind of leader of the colonists, figur ...
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
Number of Words: 1273 / Number of Pages: 5
... early 14th c. Typically, the
king of Hungary and Croatia appointed bans, or local governors; and, in
typical medieval fashion, these bans took advantage of any weakness of the
central monarchy to carve out territories for themselves.
In the early 14th c., the ban of Croatia was Pavao (Paul) Subic of
Brebir or Breberio (a town in Dalmatia which was given to the family in
1222): his father and grandfather were counts or Trau or Trogir, his
cousins were counts of Spalato or Split. This p owerful man titles himself
ban of Croatia and dominus Bosniae, and appoints his brother Mladen I
Subic (1302-04) and ...
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Death Camps Of World War Ii
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... commanded by the Germans. Following through with the elimination of the Jews, the Nazis gave them fierce living conditions often housing dozens of people in small buildings. Food was administered in very small amounts. Those that did not starve to death were either shot or sent to camps. Some were sent to concentration camps. There were also labor camps. During some of these trips, prisoners would be told that they were being relocated. Many of these people instead arrived at the extermination camps never to be heard from again.
The Polish town known as Kulmhof, though more popularly kn ...
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Operation Desert Storm
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... his small nation of 18 million
people stood no chance what so ever against the mighty military of the United
States and its allies.On the final night of the war, within hours of the cease fire towards United States, Air force bombers dropped specially designed, 5000 pound bombs on a command bunker fifteen miles northwest of Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to kill Saddam Hussein.During the very week, King Fahd was persuaded to invite the United States troops to Saudi Arabia in order to defend his monarchy from the alleged threat of Iraqi invasion. General H. Norman Schwaszkopf secretly sent an intell ...
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The Assyrians
Number of Words: 1019 / Number of Pages: 4
... to a dynasty of Amorite. Then Hammurabi
of Babylon took over and established himself ruler of Assyria. The collapse of
Hammurabi's Old Babylonian dynasty gave Assyria only temporary relief. It soon
fell under the control of the Mitanni, until that state was destroyed by the
Hittites c.1350 BC.
The Early Neo-Assyrian Period (c.1200-600 BC)
After the collapse of Mittanni, Assyria regained its independence and was able
to hold it thanks to the weakness of its neighbors. The most important event in
Assyrian history during the 13 century BC, was the capture of Babylon by King
Tukulti-Ninurta (r.124 ...
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