The Great Wall survived for many years and has been a big part of Chinese history. Have you ever been to the Great Wall of China? The benefits help China because the Great Wall influenced China‚ kept invaders out‚ and it was very easy to build. The benefits did outweigh the costs for building the Great Wall. First of all‚ the Great Wall influenced China and attracted many visitors. People that wants to go to China’s Great Wall want to explore the old structure and find ancient artifacts
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The Great Depression All these changes affects the society in different ways .The Great Depression caused many people to destruct businesses and led the government to regulate the businesses and economic affairs. All this increased regulation led to the widespread belief that the government should promise or guarantee citizens a good life‚ and high employment. After the depression‚ many people no longer trusted employers to protect workers. As a result labor unions gained more members and grater
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The Great Awakening was one of the most influential impacts on the United States’ religious history. The Great Awakening helped re-establish a basic moral foundation for colonists‚ it unified colonists with each other‚ & it revived many American’s passion for religion. Jonathon Edward’s preaching during 1741‚ vividly described the horrors of hell to colonists. Jonathon’s exact preaching was “You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince‚ and yet it is nothing
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caused him problems later with his military forces. The way that it helped him conquer Egypt was that he became viewed as a living God or Pharaoh. Instead of being satisfied with invading Egypt and overcame the Persians‚ he wanted to win over the hearts of the Egyptian people. He did this by accepting Egyptian traditions and not challenging them with his Greek traditions at first. This led the Egyptians to believe that he was one of them and loved him. Then Alexander visited a temple where he was
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has been very influential African American’s such as Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Barack Obama‚ and Rosa Parks. But the one I’m going to be talking about today isn’t as well known as the ones I just mentioned‚ but she is still a very important influence to today’s society as well as many African Americans. The person that I’m going to be talking about today is Patricia Bath the first African American female to finish her study in ophthalmology and was the first African American female doctor to receive a
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Alexander III the Great inherited from his father the best military formation of the time‚ the Macedonian Phalanx. He was the first great conqueror who reached Greece‚ Egypt‚ Asia Minor‚ and Asia up to western India. In the space of twelve years the Macedonian king Alexander the great carved out an empire stretching from Greece to modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan‚ conquering the Persian empire and several smaller kingdoms in the process. Alexander himself was an intelligent man‚ who inherited
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The Ancient Greek society ended over 2000 years ago‚ but even now its mythology continues to influence Western society. References to Greek Mythology are found in books‚ pieces of literature‚ television shows‚ and even video games. Even when the Roman Empire took over Ancient Greece‚ Rome still used and adopted the Greece mythologies (Jupiter as Zeus‚ Kronos as Saturn‚ etc.)‚ which influenced our society just as it did throughout history. Greek Mythology has several links to music‚ film‚ and religion
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was one of the greatest Mongol rulers. As one of his many descendants‚ his grandson Kublai Khan (1215-1294) conquered one of mankind’s greatest civilizations‚ China‚ to become emperor of the Yuan dynasty (1272-1368). After the Song Dynasty and its ruling scholar-gentry class‚ Kublai turned out to be a very cosmopolitan ruler who introduced many different kinds of foreign people along with religions such as Buddhism‚ Islam‚ and Christianity into his court and consequently into China. Although he kept
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Frederick the Great and his Impact on Prussia Although Germany has had several interesting rulers‚ possibly the one man who led it on the path to greatness was Frederick II‚ who ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786‚ He was primarily known as a military and tactical genius‚ although he was a patron of the arts and Enlightenment ideals as well. Due to his military acumen‚ his modern Enlightenment-esque ideas‚ and his unprecedented (at the time) reforms‚ Frederick the Great was the man who turned Prussia
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In 1763 the colonists faced a series of conflicts with Great Britain. These conflicts resulted in the break between the two. Although Great Britain caused many problems by imposing several restrictive acts on the colonists’ during their fight for independence‚ it more importantly caused the colonists’ to come together and grow as they started an independence movement. Great Britain imposed many taxes on the colonists‚ one being the Sugar Act. The reason the Sugar made the colonists so mad was because
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