Imagine living in a world with little hospitals‚ dirty water‚ small amounts of transportation routes and little technology. Before Europe came to America‚ Asia and Africa there were not hospitals‚ schools‚ roads‚ railways or ports. European imperialism had a positive effect on the modern world by bringing improved living conditions‚ the spread of culture‚ and infrastructure to America‚ Asia and Africa. Europe also constructed hospitals and schools therefore improving health and education. Christianity
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On April 6‚ 1917 America officially joined the war‚ with a vote of eighty-two to six in the Senate and three hundred seventy-three to fifty in the House of Representatives (social). America went from neutrality to war within three years. When America claimed to be neutral‚ they also accounted neutral rights to fund either side through loans. The Allied powers ( Britain‚ France and Russia) borrowed two point five billion dollars‚ while the Central powers only borrowed twenty-seven million dollars
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Imperialism: Europe’s Quest to Conquer the World Imperialism: the establishment of a policy extending control or authority over foreign entities in a political‚ cultural‚ and economic way as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. This is either through direct territorial conquest or settlement‚ or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. Some takeovers were brought upon by rivalries‚ while others would do it to boost the imperial nation’s
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The main reason World War I started was because of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Many countries were in this war. The countries were either in the Allied Powers‚ Central Powers‚ or neutral. This war lasted four years‚ from 1914 to 1918‚ but the United States didn’t enter until 1917. The United States was right to enter WWI because Germany was sinking America’s ships although they were neutral‚ the U.S. was being plotted against by Germany‚ and Germany would’ve won the war. Germany was
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events of world war one the main European powers had made a series of alliances. The Triple alliance included Germany‚ Austria Hungary‚ Italy(later switching sides once the war starts) and the Ottoman empire. The Triple Entente included Britain‚ France‚ and Russia (1914-1917). These Alliances stated that in the event that one nation would be under attack‚ the other nation would aid them. These alliances systems set the groundwork for the events that would follow effectively dragging all European nations
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Europeans got the "science" of how to make spirits through the advanced civilization/culture Cordoba‚ the capital of Arab Andalusia. Texts that had to be translated were works from Greece‚ India and Persia that were being translated into Arabic‚ as well as Arabic works being translated into Latin. This helped lift the spirits of learning in western Europe. New principles of chemistry were created in Europe. Distillation was perceived as to have miraculous healing powers and was made from magic.
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people think that Germany started world war I. If you google who started world war I you will see many websites and papers that agree with this statement. Although‚ no one country stared the war and all of the involved parties are partly to blame. It was Austria Hungary that was mostly to blame. Austria Hungary started World War I by using war to distract form internal problems‚ delivering a harsh ultimatum and expecting an answer in three days‚ and declaring war after all of the demands in the ultimatum
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America entered the First World War on January 31‚ 1917‚ when the German military leaders had brand new submarine weapons in the Atlantic. This became a problem for the United States because they had planned to send vessels for France‚ Italy or Britain‚ but this would have destroyed the plan by sinking them. Woodrow Wilson was not angry but sad about this‚ because he knew this meant war‚ and he did not like wars‚ in fact he disliked them. The Germans called out the United States in a newspaper by
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Justin Gebauer Shaw W3 February 13 Colonization: A Good Thing? At the beginning of the 19th century‚ European countries began to take interest in non-westernized countries throughout the world. With the beginning of the industrial revolution on the verge‚ factories in Europe had a demand for materials. Many of these countries went to other countries to gain the resources they needed. In the process they tried to impose their culture on the natives. The natives lives were destroyed
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1. Of the explanations for European conquest that were discussed‚ I found Hoffman’s argument to be the most convincing. His argument‚ like Chase’s and Parker’s‚ hinges around the idea that faster military and political development allowed Europe to conquer the world. However‚ Hoffman’s argument differs from Chase’s and Parker’s in that it explains the outcomes of parts of Eurasia other than western Europe and China. In Hoffman’s tournament model‚ the conditions necessary for military and political
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