Why did the Renaissance Start in Italy? The Renaissance started in Italy because of three reasons. One reason is because of Italy’s flourishing cities. The cities brought in trade‚ allowing new ideas to be spread. The Medici family /merchant class‚ trade‚ and new ideas in architecture and building designs allowed Italy to have such great cities. The second reason is because of the well educated people that lived there. These educated people developed new ideas and philosophies such as Humanism
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On October 16‚ 1859‚ John Brown‚ a radical abolitionist of the North‚ led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harpers Ferry‚ Virginia. He seized the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal and planned to arm slaves to instigate slave rebellions in the South. He was captured by the militia and Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee’s troops‚ and was quickly sentenced to death. John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry received polarized comments. While he was hailed as a martyr by Chicago’s Republican
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Their history - why did they start and how? Stalin page. highlighted main points What are they fighting for? Stalin fought for communism and him being in power over all of it. He was Lenin’s right hand man and Lenin was fighting to make the country a soviet country where everyone is equal. What type of terrorist group are they? Stalin’s terrorism was a part state terrorism. It was within the laws of that area to kill off all the people that died. Who are they fighting against? Stalin was fighting
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between Arizona and Nevada. its like 30 miles southeast of La Vegas Nevada.The hoover dam wasbeen plannedplanded to be builtd for years to stop floods from the river.The Hhoover Ddam is one of America’s greatest civil engineering marvels. John L. Savage the engineer who supervised the design of the Hhoover Ddam and many other dams in the Uunited Sstates.The Hhoover Ddam It was originally known as Boulder Dam but was renamed in 1947 in honor of Herbert Hoover who was U.S. secretary of commerce and the 31st
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remained outside of the war for more than two years because of a widespread feeling of isolationism. Even so‚ it supported Great Britain in many ways. It offered the British loans to help in their war effort‚ and even sent warships and ammunition. Meanwhile‚ the world felt that it was only a matter of time before the Americans would actually join the fighting side of the Allies. Japan knew that the massive US Pacific fleet would be a major threat once the Americans did enter the war‚ so the Japanese
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KOPSTEIN Why did the why west get rich? They stole it: Imperialism Problem: Why didn’t they steal it from us first. Why didn’t they come and steal from the Europeans first? What are the origins of technological superiority Weather: warming up of Europe after the 15th Century. But then why rent tropical countries that developed? Max Weber What was it about the Northwestern part of Europe that made it unique? Protestantism and capitalism Weber wasn’t the first to do this: in facet
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were born. Creoles were people who were born in the new world and had old world ancestry. Peninsular Spaniards were born in Spain. It did not take long for these two groups of people to separate into casts. As ideas of the Enlightenment swept into the nation‚ ideas of inalienable rights and equality came into the mind of the Creole Elites. Though there were other causes of revolution in the area‚ this class rift played part in frustrating the members of the Creole Elite towards action‚ for example
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put a pressure on the should of the riches and leaders‚ in general leader gave the priority to the interest over the law under different justification‚ for instance "When it was proposed to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia‚ which did not have the rights of a state bat was directly under the jurisdiction of
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16: Why Did We Enter World War I? World War I‚ also known as the First World War‚ was a global war centred in Europe. The war drew in all the world’s economic great powers‚ which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. America insisted on staying neutral and had the Atlantic Ocean to act as a barrier to not get involved with this war. But it was almost inevitable that America would eventually get involved and America did. America
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An empire‚ by definition‚ is“ a group of regions that are controlled by one ruler or one government; especially : a group of countries ruled by an emperor or empress ”. In contrast‚ a republic is “ a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen “. The difference between these two is where the power to rule the country lies‚ whether it be an individual or many elected officials. Using these definitions it would
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