... and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, the effect of the war had brought upon them independence from Spain. In Germany, princes received sovereign independent authority. Although the Hapsburg family, the Spanish, and the Germans were severely weakened, they continued to work together in international affairs. In all of this, Germany had been effected the most economically, especially because the war was held mainly in Germany. As a center of trade before the war, Germany had suddenly become robbed of its resources economically after the war. During the war, soldiers pillaged the farms and houses of the Germans. The lustrous land German ...
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... bombs were not explored by Truman and other men in power, as they probably should have been. Lastly, because these alternatives were never explored, we can only conjecture over whether or not Truman’s decision was a morally just one, and if indeed it was necessary to use atomic energy to win the war. The war in Asia had its roots in the early 1930s. Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific, especially in Indochina2. In July of 1940 the United States placed an embargo on materials exported to Japan, including oil in the hope of restraining Japanese expansionism. Nevertheless, tensions remained high in Asia, and only increased in 19 ...
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... middle class citizens, next were the Plebeians who were very poor but not slaves and last was the slaves who owned nothing at all not even the clothes on their back because it all belonged to their master. Therefore, if slaves were caught running away they were brought upon charges of theft for stealing themselves and their masters clothing. Stealing held a very heavy punishment and that punishment was always upheld. The punishment was capital punishment and all of this was done to teach them a lesson. Some say the Romans had a very strange way of doing things but, the way their country was setup most of their laws were necessary for them. All of this ...
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... The most influential and famous of these is how the creation of Earth is explained. The ians worshiped the sun along with a series of gods and goddesses. The ian gods were represented with human torsos and human or animal heads. They were also represented by symbols, such as the sun disk and hawk wings that were worn on the headdresses of the pharaoh. Burying there dead was of great religious concern in . They believed they had to preserve the corpse so that they’re ka or spirit could enter the afterlife. They would mummify their dead bodies in order to preserve them. They would bury their dead in elaborate tombs in order to protect them in the afterlif ...
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... areas the traditional family consisted of the head of the household, his sons, and their wives and children, often all living under one roof. Land, the main form of wealth in traditional China, was divided equally among all the landowners surviving sons when he died. Living conditions for the average peasant are generally better today then they were in the past. There are more opportunities for education and greater security for the family as social unit. Marriage in China has also changed. Today there is a law that provides for the freedom of choice in marriages. This law also states that men and woman are equal, therefore a man can no l ...
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... carried on at half power. At about 23:00 hrs. on April 25, the grid controller agreed to a further reduction in power. For this test the reactor was to be stabilized at 1,000 MW prior to shut down, however, due to operational error the power fell to about 30 MW where the positive void coefficient became a problem. The operators tried to raise the power by freeing all the control rods manually and at 01:00 hr. on April 26 the reactor stabilized at 200 MW. Within a short time, an increase in coolant flow and a drop in steam pressure required the operators to withdraw nearly all the rods. The reactor became very unstable and the operators had to make adjust ...
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... based economy, and its culture and dominated by the Church. After the fourteenth century was characterised by the growing national consciousness and political centralisation based on organised commerce and capitalism, along with the secular control of thought and culture. It was in Italy from around the time 1375 to the sack of Rome (1527) that the distinctive features and impacts of the renaissance era are revealed. (Internet 1) Italy having a geographic advantage, laying in the centre of the commerce between the east and west. Due to this fact rich and urban cities were formed in Italy. There started to be more Italian cities t ...
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... crops. Population Growth: Countries with the least developed economies have the world’s highest birth rates. Populations of poor countries double every twenty-five years. Cultural patterns: Poor societies are typically traditional. Groups pass folkways from generation to generation. Social Stratification: unequally distributed wealth is often found in low-income countries. Gender Inequality: Poor societies use women more than industrial societies. Women with fewer opportunities have more children than ones that do. Global Power Relationships: The relationships between the nations in the world are a huge cause in the poverty in the world. Wealth usually ...
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... all provisions, and will have the latter divided according to the most scrupulous equality.” - “Plebeians’ Manifesto”1 Because of this and other acts considered to be threatening to the Directory, Babeuf was executed in May of 1797. Babeuf was not forgotten though, others followed in his footsteps. Another 19th century French reformer, Charles Fourier, shared many of Babeuf’s ideas, but where Babeuf favored immediate political change, Fourier was for longer-term social reform. The Comte de Saint-Simon, another political thinker of that time, was similar to Fourier in many respects, although he valued a mixed society of capitalist thinkers and socialist workers wh ...
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... the face completely so that they couldn’t get hit in the face when they were pulled off their horse. To be recognized, knights wore special symbols, such as lions and unicorns, on their armor and shields, they were called “coat of arms.” They identified that knight with its colorful pattern or picture. These designs became family symbols passed down from generation to generation. They helped other knights know who to fight against The earliest armor was made of metal rings sewn on a leather coat. Some coats had more than 200,000 metal rings. However, a sword could still pierce the little tiny space between them. A later type of armor, called ...
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