Alexander the Great‚ king of Macedonia‚ accomplished much in his lifetime. He added many new lands to his vast empire including Asia Minor‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ Sogdiana‚ and part of India. He became the conqueror of the world he knew. Alexander the Great was the son of Princess Olympias of Epirus (Cinderella) and King Philip II of Macedonia (Popovic). His parents hated each other and had an unstable marriage (Cinderella). Philip’s relationship with Alexander was also poor. He once
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Alexander II Nikolayevich became emperor of Russia in March 1855 after the death of his father Nicholas I. Regarded to many historians as the ‘Great Reformer’‚ Alexander II was believed to have transformed Russia and to because one of the greatest reformers in Russian history. He managed to emancipate the serfs and bring about reforms in education‚ military‚ justice‚ censorship and the economy. Despite all of this Russian society was unsatisfied‚ ultimately leading to the assassination attempts that
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sHow successfully did Alexander III suppress opposition? Alexander III was the Tsar of Russia from 1881 to 1894 and during his reign‚ Russia became somewhat stable‚ and Alexander himself opposed his father’s reforms and stamped out any opposition to his rule. His father‚ Alexander II had allowed reformers to be present in the government. This allowed instability and opposition at times when Russia was not in its better stages. Revolts and rebellions has plagued Russian History and opposed the
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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3‚ 1847 in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. Working through numerous experiments in sound and advancing his father’s work on Visible Speech for deaf people Bell acquired his education.To continue his study about the human voice he opened a workshop. He also did important work in communication for the deaf. Throughout his life he held more than 18 patents. Bell was one of the primary inventors of the telephone. Through many years of experimentation with sound waves he created
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Alexander II became Tsar of the Russian Empire in 1855 following his late father Nicholas I. By the time of Nicholas’ death‚ Russia was in desperate need of change‚ as Russians’ way of life “differed very little from what it had been at the end of the fifteenth [century]” (Lincoln‚ 1990). Alexander was conscious of Russia’s situation and knew he needed to take action as soon as possible. But he was also firmly dedicated to maintaining the autocracy and his position as Tsar‚ a notion that was installed
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When we think of Alexander the Great‚ we think of an outstanding war hero. When we think of Napoleon Bonaparte‚ we think‚ again‚ of an outstanding war hero. If a random person were asked who either of these rulers was‚ their first response would be a fact about war. Alexander and Napoleon share similarities in their warfare‚ and how they used it to conquer and establish new lands. Alexander the Great’s strong perseverance and incredible battle strategies led to increase his power over his empire
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land cannot produce‚ and even for material to build their earthen homes. The Good Earth begins in the humble home of the Wang family on the wedding day of Wang Lung‚ when Lung is introduced to his wife‚ O-lan. Throughout O-lan’s lifetime she has been both a street-beggar and a slave. Having experienced such roles‚ O-lan is equipped with a plethora of skills which benefit the Wang family. O-lan assists Lung in the fields‚ makes the family’s clothes‚ ministers to Lung’s elderly father‚ prepares all of
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presents the intense debate between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang in terms of a series of reforming policies conducted by Wang. Essentially‚ the debate is denominational: Sima‚ an advocator of Confucius‚ represents the conservatives‚ and Wang represents innovationists. Wang and Sima were in fact good friends and both were erudite central government officials‚ yet they held very different political stand. Sima highly emphasizes the conservative Confucius philosophy‚ and Wang is a progressive and strive to
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How successful were Alexander reforms in transforming Russian Society by 1881? 24 marks Alexander came to power in 1855‚ but before he became Tsar Alexander witnessed the shameful defeat against Britain‚ France and Turkey in the Crimean War in 1854 This had given him the opportunity to observe some of the problems which Russia faced; Alexander believed that changes had to be made towards modernisation. The population of the Russian Empire was 74 million
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How successful was Alexander III in tackling the problems of the Tsarist regime? Tsar Alexander III was forced onto the throne after his father’s assassination in 1881. He had fears of maybe having the same fate of his father‚ therefore leading onto him making changes to the Tsarist regime bringing it back to a doctoral style of government. Alexander wanted to ensure that all power was again entrusted to the Tsar and to do this he had to restrict the zemstva’s power as the zemstva meant the power
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