To what extent was Austria responsible for the failure of Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-49? Austria had a massive empire in the early 19th century‚ Italy only being a small part. The 1815 Congress of Vienna had given Austria direct control over Lombardy and Venetia‚ and had also put an Austrian family in charge of ruling smaller duchies such as Parma and Modena. As such‚ Austria had dominating control over a lot of Italy. However‚ this was not the only reason why Italian revolutionaries
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The “fall” of Rome was caused by many reasons. These reasons help us realize why Rome was successful and then became a failure. To begin with‚ Rome had economic problems. This was because people had the ability to enforce laws. Sometimes these laws were just not fair. Also money became a problem for the Romans. This was because rulers paid security more just to insure they wouldn’t die. Rome lost much money from this and had to start collecting taxes. Also sometimes the fact people could not trade
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comes down to who’s fault it was and what really sealed the deal and ultimately caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the same time when it is asked ‘Why did the soviet union collapse?’ the answer is always ‘there were many factors’. Well what does that mean? That is not very specific at all. Some say it had to do with the numbers of different cultures combined into one union and others may argue that the economy was too stagnant and that no one could have prevented it‚ however in most cases
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it was his duty alone to fix the problem of the people‚ and took it on as a personal task2. Alas‚ it was known that the king was not addressing these situations‚ as the workload was too immense to possibly be fulfilled to a reasonable extent by any one man3. Although the intended audience of the arbitristas’ remained ignorantly unreceptive to their progressive insights‚ the general population listened to their lessons and learnt to act more
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Plan of Investigation Thesis: Why did Britain go to war? Between the late eighteen hundreds and late nineteen hundreds‚ England was described as being in “splendid isolation” from the rest of Europe until 1914. But why did Britain go to war? What rivalries were Britain involved and what treaties dragged her into the war? I need to look through the primary sources such as official reports‚ published interviews‚ addresses‚ and history textbook to gather facts; secondary sources from the internet
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Push” that would break the trench war stalemate. The greatest artillery barrage the world had ever known preceded it. The 3‚000‚000 shells were supposed to destroy the German barbed wire so Allied troops could walk through virtually unmolested. That did not happen‚ and because Haig had no effective intelligence capability‚ the first to learn that truth were attacking troops who died by the thousands on the wire. The Germans suffered massive losses at the Somme as well‚ but as defenders the resulting
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One of the biggest reason why Jamestown really sufferd was when john smith had to go back to england and they had no good substainable water source nor did they have any idea of how to farm with this new land. John smith got injured in a gunpowder explosion and had to go back to england. Also most of their water supply was not good and would give them diseases like disentary. When they came over they had no idea of how to farm in the new soil. The soil was alot different than the soil in england
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Secret of the Wild Child What were the various roles (personal and professional) played by the adults working with Genie? How did these differing roles conflict? What effect did the conflicts have on Genie? Some of the first people to have a substantial impact on Genie when she was rescued were Susan Curtiss‚ a linguistics student intent on helping her learn to communicate‚ and James Kent‚ Genie’s psychologist and caretaker. There was a lot of controversy over whether or not Genie was mentally
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Rome is one of the oldest empires in the world‚ dating from 753 BCE to 338 BCE. Rome is one of the first major cities in Italy‚ along with Florence. Rome was founded by the twins‚ Romulus and Remus. A legend has been passed that at a young age the boys were put in baskets and were sent along the Tiber River. They were found by a mother wolf. She cared for them‚ but soon after a shepherd found them and took care of them until they grew up. At one point they decided to seek their fortune. They went
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One of main reason is the fact that they gave way too much power to the state governments. States could issue their own paper money which would eventually ruin the economy. There was no National army or navy leaving the country basically defenseless in the event of war. States could also make their own laws without the requirement of permission from the central government. This meant that a state didn’t have to follow the national governments laws. The
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