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    Once the fighting ceased and the Americans had gained independence‚ citizens would question how revolutionary the war actually was. The American Revolution was in fact revolutionary because the battles and treaties between the two nations led to the American people getting their independence as well as inspiring another revolution. The American revolution was actually revolutionary because the battles allowed for a complete shift in power to occur. The battles themselves led to the destruction of

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    The french revolution and Russian Revolution are the same yet different in many ways. The are the same because they have separate groups‚ However they are different because they both occurred in a different time period and in different locations. The french revolution occurred in ___________. The russian revolution occurred in russia. The first difference between the 2 estates is that their social life was very different. The french had 3 estates where as the russian only had 2 groups The church

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    my thesis statement!! The Scientific Revolution lasted between 1540-1690. Although in 1453 the Ottoman Turks invaded the city Constantinople‚ scholars fled west bringing ancient knowledge just in time as Europe started to challenge Aristotle’s physics. Advancements in many fields of science were made. Astronomy was the highest developed field advanced during the Scientific Revolution. A majority was relating to work from Aristoles. Until the Scientfic Revolution many theorised that the earth was the

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    World Studies 16 January 2014 The Same Revolution?: The Russian and Chinese Communist Revolution Many question the many similarities and differences between the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Communist Revolution and how they may have been the same historical rebellion. Using Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of a Revolution to compare and contrast the two revolutions’ stages‚ there might be an answer to the debatable question. While during the Russian Revolution‚ they started out united‚ a new government

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    The American Revolution was an extremely important event that helped shape the modern world‚ however‚ it was not a true revolution. According to Richard Price‚ a British Unitarian minister‚ "A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of the old order and transfers power from a ruling elite to new social groups." (Digital History ID 3222) During the 1700’s‚ the American colonies had already been engaging in a form of self-government in their localities‚ which they largely fashioned

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    The Haitian Revolution was one of the most successful slave revolutions of all time. During the period before the Haitian Revolution‚ Haiti was one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere: fueled by slave labor. Slaves were forced to work as long as the sun was up and they often spent all day chopping or hacking at sugar cane with a machete. If the slaves refused to work‚ they were shot or beaten. This upsets me because people of color were treated like lesser beings because of their skin

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    Astronomy Study Guide 1. Know and be able to list the differences between terrestrial and jovian planets. a. Terrestrial Planets i. Mercury ii. Venus iii. Earth iv. Mars b. Characteristics of Terrestrial Planets v. Small vi. Rocky vii. Very close to the Sun viii. Have few moons ix. Have no rings c. Jovian Planets x. Jupiter xi. Saturn xii. Uranus

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    The Scientific Revolution was a time period in Europe that lasted from 1550-1700 that refers to the historical changes in thought and belief as well as the changes in social and institutional organization. The scientific revolution began with Nicholas Copernicus who had the idea of a heliocentric cosmos‚ heliocentric meaning “sun-centered”‚ all the way to Sir Issac Newton who founded universal laws and a mechanical universe. The scientific revolution was based on a belief in core transformation from

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    The French Revolution The American Revolution was not as revolutionary as the French Revolution. The French Revolution was mostly about having basic facilities and independence provided to all the people. All of this began because the monarch was not looking after his people properly. So the people wanted to remove the king from his position. This revolution was also about the people demanding for justice and equality‚ while the American Revolution was about driving the British away from their country

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    world from a medieval to modern age‚ the Scientific Revolution was the most fundamental. The medieval age was a dark age that revolved around the church’s decisions. People relied on only others to make the decisions and to tell them what to believe. There was no independence or individuality. The Scientific Revolution was able to change the method of how people thought and how people viewed the world. In about 100 A.D. before the scientific revolution‚ Ptolemy came up with the geocentric theory. The

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