Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s plan was to convert unused land in Serbia and Kazakhstan into farming land. Yet‚ there were 3 main reasons why this project failed. Khrushchev had discouraged the use of the highly popular and efficient crop cycle and fallow land techniques. Furthermore‚ he did not provide these farms with the basic tools and materials to grow crops. He did not even provide them with fertilizer. This caused much of the farmland to be ruined and in 1960 half of all the farmland designated
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Why did the 1905 Revolution fail? Liam Hunt When looking at why the 1905 revolution failed‚ we must first consider the state of affairs leading up to the revolution. One key event in the state of affairs was the separation of the Social Democrats who became known as the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks in 1903. This was because some members of the what was to become the Bolsheviks‚ wanted to have a violent revolution‚ whereas the other members wanted to wait until the capitalist stage of the Marxist
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Achilles was the type of warrior who wanted to be better than anyone who had challenged him in a battle. He didn’t like taking orders by anyone who wasn’t doing anything that was the right way to do things. Like when Agamemnon had ask Achilles to help him win the war by joining his army‚Achilles had said no. Agamemnon had someone else convince him to help. Achilles wanted to be the best of the best when it came to battling someone. Achilles goes from not showing any type of feelings and only caring
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would have been unable to build our once-great empire‚ let alone to have defended it in the face of Peloponnesian resistance‚ for with them we were indomitable by land‚ and the power of our navy and our commercial machine was always available. We would not have withstood the frequent Spartan sieges but would have starved‚ cut off from our port. Thus‚ it seems that in order to return to our former excellence we will need new walls. But I urge you to consider whether that excellence was what its
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depended on slavery was the number one reason why they didn’t want slavery to be abolished. The Southern economy would go down the drain because they depended on slave labor. Without the slaves there would be no one to work the fields. The cotton economy would collapse‚ the tobacco crop would dry‚ and the rice would be profitable. They also said that slavery existed throughout history and that it was part of the natural being of mankind. Not only did Americans have slavery but also Greeks‚ Roman‚ and
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The ancient empire‚ Benin‚ became civilized because of record keeping on trade‚ the developed complex institutions and the leadership specialized workers. The Benin empire rose to power back in the 13th century‚ to about 15th century. The empire quickly became successful due to the modern trade routes. “...they became very wealthy by trading conquered people to the Portuguese as slaves in exchange for such manufactured European products as firearms‚ textiles‚ glass‚ and beads” (Hackey). Records were
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He is the one who discovered the continent of America. He is a navigator‚ colonizer‚ and explorer. He had four voyages to accomplish his goal‚ which was to find the new land that Europeans did not know. Since 1484‚ he suggested supports for many trips to kings or queens in Spain‚ England‚ Portugal‚ and France but all those plans got rejected. Later‚ he got supports from Queen Isabella and King Fernando from Spain. Christopher Columbus started to make treaty with them. He suggested to have ten percent
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resembled and differed in many ways. Although one would expect the same victorious outcomes that many European groups did result in while conquering different worlds‚ these operative strategies did not always work for all. Different countries and civilizations clearly have different views and beliefs on the world around them; therefore when the Europeans did not account for this‚ a cultural collision‚ when one or more cultures are integrated into one environment causing disruption‚ was produced.
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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race and religious and political views. One main reason why he was persecuted by Europeans was because he was trying get rid off all those blocks that prevented the black race from striving. Another reason he was persecuted was because people from America were claiming that they were owed money from the UNIA-ACL. During the period around 1930 black people couldn’t vote because in order to vote you had to pay your property taxes. This is an example of what whites were doing to the blacks in Jamaica
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