Lecture 2 Early Civilization Characteristics: high populations‚ centralized political and economic authority‚ regional states‚ stratified societies (hierarchies – political and economic – most people with least power at bottom)‚ complex architecture‚ higher learning - Why did they develop? Larger populations needed intensified agricultural production - Simple agriculture replaced by field agriculture - Hydraulic Hypothesis Irrigation on such a large scale thus “causes” the emergence of centralized and hierarchal political
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#3 ATP: The Revolution of 1800 Edward J. Larson analyzes the pivotal presidential election‚ sometimes referred to as a revolution‚ of 1800 that established two disparate political parties‚ challenged the United States Constitution‚ and threatened the nation’s unity. Because this was the first time in American history that partisan campaigning was distinctly apparent‚ it was a significant piece of the election of 1800. When establishing the opposing campaigns of 1800‚ the article states‚ “…divided
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Women participated in the American Revolution in many different ways both to help with the war effort and to undermine the war effort. They sewed for the army‚ boycotted goods from England‚ made weapons and ammo‚ were camp followers‚ fought disguised as men in battles‚ were spies for either side‚ and ran the farms while their husbands were away. The war allowed women to fulfill new roles and explore their own political beliefs and to act upon those beliefs. A majority of the women involved in
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A common misconception is that the American Revolution was a war fought to gain independence from the tyranny of King George. The American Revolution was no such thing‚ but it was a political movement that wanted change. The American Revolution included all things from the Boston tea party to the intolerable acts. These acts brought out a dramatic change in the colonies. The American Revolution brought about tremendous change by transforming the colonists who were no longer subject to the crown‚
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The major changes during the struggle for independence and years after gave a “period of revolutionary significance” (Jones‚ 1995‚ p. 58). However‚ the American Revolution was not the same as the French Revolution of 1789 or the Russian Revolution of 1917 as it had no major changes in economic or reorganisation of the government. The Americans fought not to seek to establish a radical new social order but it was the first successful war of national independence in the modern period in which it ended
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Before the Industrial Revolution‚ man produced the products they needed by hand or by basic machines. This meant that production took a much greater time for construction and that the individuals that made certain products had to be specifically trained to master that skill. This would all change by the mid 1800s with the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. “Industrialization refers to a process that transformed agrarian and handicraft-centered economies into economies distinguished
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In the time period between 1775 and 1830‚ African Americans start to gain more freedom in the North while the institution of slavery expanded in the South. These changes occurred due to the existence of different point of views. The North did not need slavery and acknowledge the cons of slavery while the South’s want for slavery quickly became a need. After the American Revolution‚ The North slowly started to rid itself of slavery while the South implemented slavery into their daily lives. Slaves
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Document 1 These excerpts are from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson. Dickinson was a Pennsylvania political leader who served in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765. Later in his career‚ he served in the Continental Congress‚ and later still‚ in the Constitutional Convention. In the following statement‚ Dickinson condemned some of the new taxes being imposed by Parliament. There is another late act of parliament‚ which appears to me to be unconstitutional‚ and ... destructive to
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The French and Russian Revolutions: Similar? Or Different? Owen Sokoloff Period 4 Ms. Repollet 1/18/11 The French Revolution and the Russian Revolution were the same in many ways‚ but were also different in just as many ways. A king who believed in absolutism‚ just as France was before the revolution‚ led Russia; the kings didn’t accurately represent their people‚ nor were they close to them; the middle class (bourgeoisie‚ in France‚ Duma‚ in Russia) wanted recognition; and in both cases‚
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Townshend revenue Acts‚ so that they can impose taxes on many items imported into the colonies. Furthermore‚ they published the Tea Act to make British East India Company the only company allowed to import tea into the colonies and in 1775 was published the American Prohibitory Act‚ which was an order to trade embargo and tells the British’s powerful navy to seize any ship trading with the colonies (Doc
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