Prompt: DBQ Analyze attitudes toward and evaluate the motivations behind the European acquisition of African colonies in the period 1880 to 1914. Prior to the European takeover of colonies in Africa‚ Europe had been going through the Industrial Revolution. While European nations had been focusing on building up themselves to become stronger‚ they began sending missionaries and explorers such as Stanley and Livingston deep into central Africa. European nations soon discovered that there were
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INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN CULTURE Gas from a burner I. Influence on the work James Joyce is born on February 2nd‚ 1882 in Rathgar‚ a suburb of the South of Dublin‚ in a catholic family. The exuberant and unstable personality of his father‚ John Joyce‚ alternately medical student‚ champion of rowing‚ singer‚ comedian‚ politics fanatic‚ secretary‚ worker and tax inspector‚ big drinker‚ contrasts with her mother‚ Mary Jane Murray‚ especially worried to stay up her lodging house and
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china and European countries The traditional world order of china benefited of the tribute system placing it in the middle of the civilized world. On the other hand‚ to recognize china’s progression‚ permissions were given to different states which allow them to trade with china. China was central world order in 1517 which European vessels came overseas to it to trade. The Chinese observed that the European vessels are just the same as any vessel came from Japan‚ Siam‚ and any other way. The European
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?Why did Northern European humanists study and learn Greek? -Because of the idea of humanism‚ it influenced their society to study Greek because they studied the classical texts which were mostly in Greek/Latin. (Humanism was a cultural movement that promoted the
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The Great Depression The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States‚ the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929‚ which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years‚ consumer spending and investment dropped‚ causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies
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The World War I began in 1914 after Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot by a Serbian revolutionary. This assassination influenced the start of a world war between great European powers that lasted for four years. In 1917‚ the United States of America joined this war‚ to assist its allies‚ France and Britain. It was clear that these states were exhausting their military resources and they needed help. In addition‚ German submarines had attacked American ships leading to the loss
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conditions for the adoption of the euro as their single currency. During the same period‚ the members of the Executive Board of the ECB were appointed. Our story begins two years later‚ when Greece becomes accepted as the 12th member of the eurozone countries. In the recent past‚ a number of EU members‚ including Greece‚ Ireland‚ Portugal‚ Spain and Belgium‚ shook the global financial markets with their sovereign debt crisis. In this paper‚ we will primarily focus on financial crisis in Greece‚ discussing
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With this in mind‚ the Great Depression influenced the 1930s by setting the international socioeconomic foundations for decades to come. The 1920s was an era known by many to be boisterous and blithe‚ without a trace of assiduousness. Never were Americans more determined to have fun and “eager to enjoy the good life” to reap all of the benefits that the American economy could give them (Feinberg 15). The post-war recession‚ which was the remnant of the First World War‚ was forgotten when Americans
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is known as one where advances in European mathematical‚ political and scientific thought occurred. A “founding father” of the scientific revolution was a polish scientist by the name of Nicholas Copernicus‚ whose conclusion that it was the sun‚ not the earth that lies at the center of the solar system‚ was a direct contradiction to the church‚ which strongly believed the vice-versa or the Geo-Centric theory. (Merriman‚290) It was this initiating step that led other scientists to further question and
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Starting around 1870 imperialism amplified and is a major cause of World War I due to the actions and emotions associated with imperialism. Imperialism was the practice of one or more nations trying to control another nation or people‚ thus reducing or even eliminating their sovereignty. While not all the Great Powers and Serbia hold equal blame‚ each country felt or stimulated imperialism from 1870 until 1914. To start‚ England believed that the sun never sets on her empire‚ thus she believed in
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