One cannot celebrate a man who left so little impact on the world. Have you ever heard the name Zheng He? Likely not, and with good reason. Zheng He was born Ma He, in a muslim village in southwestern China. Ma was captured during a northern chinese raid, and was forced to watch his father’s execution. He was taken shortly after, and was forced to become a eunuch under the new name Zheng He and serve the staff of the royal family. Zheng He quickly gained the trust of the emperor at the time, and rose the ranks and became a military general and advisor to the emperor. The emperor eventually gave him the task of commanding a fleet of ships down the coast of China all the way to India. Including the first, Zheng He made seven voyages total. In…
It is 1519 in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. An Aztec priest is holding an obsidian knife. Soon he will plunge it into his victim's’ chest, which he will rip open to remove his heart. Whenever one thinks of the Aztecs, human sacrifices come into mind. However, besides this bloody practice, the Aztecs were intelligent and resourceful. After all, they did manage to control most of Mesoamerica in less than 200 years. If anything the Aztecs should be remembered as a highly organized and ingenious civilization.…
I think that the Samurai would win in a battle against a knight. While knights ad samurai have many similarities, in a one on one battle, the advantage would be to the Samurai and this can be seen in weapons, training, and their honor code…
Second-wave civilizations, Rome, Persia, Vietnam, China and the Gupta Empire all sought to expand their territory and make rules to better their state. The Romans fought the Punic Wars against Carthage and upon their victory they decided to take all the land that circumnavigated around the Mediterranean Sea for trade and travel to better their empire. Persia was the largest land empire; when Alexander the Great came in and conquered the empire, he expanded from Egypt and Anatolia to Mesopotamia and Bactria. In China, the military of 60,000 soldiers overtook the Vietnamese and the Chinese Empire expanded. In the Gupta Empire, the royal officers go on inspection every five years to make sure people are being peaceful and following the Dhamma…
In 1643, there were four New England colonies who formed a confederation and they came up with the Articles of Confederation. In 1697, William Penn brought forth a plan of union which never was implemented. Last but not least in 1754, Benjamin Franklin came up with the Albany Plan of Union. “The history of colonial efforts to cooperate or unite demonstrates that the colonies had no strong or sustainable need for a common government.” All of those plans never went into effect but that doesn't mean that they didn't want to unite. In the following paragraphs I'm going to state why I think this statement is wrong by using documents A, B, and C.…
Imagine a world where innocent people were killed, and kids were taught to steal food, and if they got caught they were whipped.Does that sound right to you? Sparta, a city state located on the southern peninsula of Greece called the Peloponnese, was known for their athletics and fighting. After examining all of Sparta’s strengths and weaknesses. I think that the weaknesses outweigh the strengths because of how they had cruelty and harshness, no freedoms, and a basic education.…
– The order given with the documents may be helpful: Compare/Contrast, or Chronological order question.…
Europeans treated non-Christians cruel, and unfair. Voltaire was a French philosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. Voltaire urged people to stop people from treating each other wrong since they have different religions. Voltaire’s argument contradicted what was being done and the consequences that Document 5 has on the mindset in the 17th and 18th centuries is that he would be punished from saying bad things about Christians. In Document 5 it states, “But these people despise us; they treat us as isolators! Very well! I will tell them that they are grievously wrong.” This shows that Europeans think/believe that they are treating them fine and well but they think/believe the incorrect. This proves that Voltaire did show that Christians…
When the Jews were sent to the concentration camps they had to be put in striped clothes. How Hitler got the Jews gassed was he told them they were taking a shower but it was really gas. Then they were but in a dark room, where they got burned to ash. But not all Jews just the ones that were too weak to work.…
When families arrived at the camps, women and small children were separated from the men. The SS officers would throw women and children into a fire alive. They also lined the women up, some still holding their children, and shot them. The women and children had their clothes taken from them. We saw this illustrated in a picture we looked at in class.…
Many horrible atrocities transpired in Nazi camps during WWII, but the most horrible of all that occurred were the extermination camps (more commonly called death camps), which had a sole purpose of exterminating anyone the Nazis deemed “undesirable”, whether they be Jews, homosexuals, or political adversaries (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). These types of camps did not even exist until June 22, 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, around when mass murder of the Jews began (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). Before the existence of extermination camps, Jews, and other undesirable people, were just gunned down in the middle of the streets – right in front of the public. This caused many problems, such as distrust towards the Nazi campaign (“Extermination Camps.” Encyclopedia). In order to solve this “problem”, the Nazis devised a strategy to rid the world of Jews without anyone even knowing, thus began the creation of extermination camps. At first, extermination camps just had soldiers who would gun down the prisoners once they got there, but eventually, this process became too much of a hassle, therefore the Nazis sought after new, stress free methods to exterminate the Jews (“Extermination Camps.” – Key). One autumn, on September 3, 1941,…
In September 1941, the first gas chamber was conducted at Auschwitz. There were 850 malnourished and ill prisoners killed. Prisoners were put in shower like rooms where Nazi “Doctors” dropped Zyklon-B through little holes. Once the pellets came in contact with the air, it released a deadly gas that killed the prisoners in 20 minutes. Death by gassing became a daily routine.…
During the Second World War six millions Jews died, some were isolated and killed in the death camps and others suffered another painful death. The Nazis hated the Jews so much that they literally wanted to get rid of them forever, so they made these destruction camps where they killed the Jews. There were 6 huge death camps. When the Jews arrived in the camps they were split up into two groups, men I one group and women and children in another. The women and children were shot or gassed shortly after the arrival because they couldn't work as hard as the men. The men were put into work immediately, and many of them were forced to work themselves to death. The prisoners in the camps were desperate and so scared that they would do anything to survive. They did not care about the other people in the dead camps, only themselves. Some of the children and women were sometimes used for inhuman experiments. They made experiments to find out how much pressure the human body could take, by freezing them and heating them.…
Back in the 1940’s the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was established by the Soviet Army. “Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps (Gutman).” It had more than 40 camps spread all over filled with Jews and Gypsies. The camp owes its importance to its size and its special role as both a death camp for Jews and Gypsies and the headquarters of a slave-labor camps housing Jews, Polish political prisoners, and homosexuals (Adler). Life as a prisoner in Auschwitz women, children and men were treated more like animals than humans by the Nazis. The Nazi’s had a way of separating the Jewish people. It was called “Selection” which took place at the railroad tracks. Children, elderly, the sick, and the large number of man and women were selected for death and marched immediately to the gas chambers others were sent to the came for labor work (Gutman). The prisoners living conditions were…
All other alternatives exhausted, Hitler put into effect his Final Solution. Schutzstaffel, search units, were sent throughout Europe to round up these “undesirables” and take them to death camps. Unlike a concentration camp where people were forced to work and died after months of horrible living conditions and the cruelty dealt them, the only purpose of a death camp was the swift killing of large amounts of people. Millions were murdered in these camps. The most well-known method was gassing. People were tricked into thinking they were going to take a group shower. But instead of water coming out of the shower heads, it was either exhaust gas or an even more poisonous gas called Zyclon B. The dead bodies were then either…