There have been many major events in the world’s history; some are brilliant discoveries‚ and some are incredibly tragic. One of the biggest tragedies in the world was The Holocaust which took place in Nazi Germany and other territories Germany took over from 1933-1945. The Holocaust was the result of Hitler’s anti-semitism from his belief that the Jewish people were the cause of all of Germany’s problems. Hitler made the Jewish people the scapegoat of all of the country’s struggles and with the
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During the seventeenth century‚ although the Toleration Act allowed religious freedom to Christianity related groups‚ however there was major discrimination towards blacks and non-landowners to be involved in a democracy. In colonial America‚ colonist began to long for freedom and establish a representative democracy. During 1649 religious freedom was given to those who chose to believe in any form of Christianity. Known today as the Toleration Act was passed in 1649 by the Maryland colony. “No
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Should Historians Emphasize Agriculture or Human Sacrifice? Would you rather be a murderer and bloody killer or a farmer who’s keeping people alive. In the 1400s and early 1500s‚ the Aztecs dominated the religion around modern day in Mexico city. There was 300 million people that lived there. “The Aztecs lived in a geological basin in central Mexico that is about the size of Rhode island. They were surrounded by high mountain peaks the basin extended 80 miles from north to south and 49 miles from
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In the mid nineteenth century‚ sectionalism was increasing‚ drawing further tension between the north and the south. The Civil War was approaching‚ as disagreement occurred in the newly occupied territories in the west over slavery law. In 1860‚ Abraham Lincoln won the election and became president. Lincoln campaigned with a stance that would not allow slavery in the west‚ but would not remove slave state’s pre-existing laws. Many southern slave states believed the government was pro-north and did
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Document Based Question European monarchs in the seventeenth and eighteenth century viewed themselves as absolute rulers‚ or kings and queens that believed that they controlled everything within their state’s borders. The people that were ruled by the absolute rulers believed absolutism had a different aspect than was being used by the kings and queens. This practice is known as absolutism. The people that were being ruled and the ruler or absolute monarch viewed the role of the absolute ruler differently
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In the First Crusade‚ Christian knights that came from Europe went and capture Jerusalem. They had been massacring almost all the city’s Muslim and Jewish population. The reason this happened was because Christians were being persecuted in Jerusalem‚ because the Holy City was passed from Egyptians to Seljuk. A Pope called for a crusade to help Christians in the east and to recover the holy lands. And then people went over there immediately. A Crusade called “People’s Crusade” had went a far way with
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12 In the broadening of business described here‚ what shifts in manufacturing took place and what business innovations occurred‚ and what effect did this have on the general distribution of goods in America? To the nineteenth century innovations of interchangeable parts and breaking down complex operations into simple steps‚ the twentieth century added standardization and the time-and-motion analyses pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor to make the assembly line highly efficient. Union officials were
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Artwork and architecture are good tools for historians learning about classicism during the Renaissance. Classicism is a renewed interest in the Greek arts and knowledge. Classicism in ancient Greek and Roman times were humanistic. In document 2‚ the document illustrates a painting of the school of Athens. The painting pictures legendary great mathematician Euclid and famous philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. These are Greek people who were until the Renaissance largely forgotten in the Europe
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Ollie Cunningham APUSH per. 5 October 31‚ 2010 Civil War and Reconstruction DBQ The United States Civil War was one of America’s darkest hours of nationhood‚ but resulted in new rights and liberties for African Americans and revolutionized the United States for the better. The war resulted in the freedom of black slaves‚ and called for a complex reunification procedure to rejoin the depleted South and the high spirited North. Constitutional and social developments during the Civil War and
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Alex Marshall DBQ Essay AP World History Green Revolution The Green Revolution was the world’s introduction to modern agricultural and a time of vast improvements in the world’s fight against hunger. New technologies such as High Yield Variety seeds‚ chemical fertilizer‚ and agricultural machinery led this revolution and are still a big part of the way we produce food for the world today. The Green Revolution was a savior do many small developing
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