resistance for the soldiers‚ when they try to take over the trench. How important the artillery attacks were is especially shown at the battle of Somme in 1st July 1916‚ where the Germans bombarded the French trench system for seven days. Another new invention‚ were poisonous gases‚ which got used first by the Germans at the Second battle of Ypres in April 1915‚ even though it was banned in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. At the beginning chlorine gas got used‚ but later on more efficient gases
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would play a part in influencing other cultures as well as modern civilization. They were the first to create city-states‚ develop a sophisticated system of writing‚ a basic sense of mathematics‚ and also a more in depth religion (Adler‚ et al). The invention of these were able to be passed down to the successors of the Sumerians and were able to be advanced even further. Let us take a more in depth look into these fields. Sumerians were the first to create the first large cities‚ the largest of which
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10dh71090 Topic: In the history of human beings‚ many inventions have greatly changed human’s life. Write some of the inventions which have brought some changes in our life. One of the most prominent features of the present century is the progress of science and its effects on almost every aspect of social life. Nowadays‚ more and more new things invented to make our life more comfortable and convenient. It is difficult for us to point out which inventions changed human’s life the most‚ but in my opinion
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Rock n’ roll and 20th Century Culture According to Philip Ennis‚ rock n’ roll emerged from the convergence of social transformations which resulted from World War II (Ryan 927). Despite its pop culture origins‚ rock music is arguably one of the strongest cultural factors to develop in this century. Artists such as Lennon‚ McCartney and Dylan defined the emotions of a generation and‚ in the last decade‚ it as even been acknowledged by members of the establishment which it hoped to
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contributed a lot during the civil war‚ the revolutions‚ and basically they had a very important impact during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Because of this women’s roles have changed quite a bit from the early 1800s to the late 1900s. Spain experienced an economic and political transformation during the Spanish Revolution of the early nineteenth century‚ 1808 and 1843. Men in Spain were giving birth to a new gender idea that took down women’s participation in the social and political transformations
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson‚ the best baseball player in the twentieth century‚ was the first African American to play in the Major League Baseball and opened up the generation for colored people to play baseball. He courageously changed and challenged the deeply rooted custom of racial segregation in both the north and the south. He also gave the African Americans a different focus for life then just stepping back and letting them get walked all over by the words form the whites. Jackie proved
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Up‚ Up‚ and Away - The Invention of the Airplane The airplane is not only one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century‚ but also the most wonderful scientific creation of the human history at large. Flying higher and higher‚ floating deep into the air like birds‚ and moving from one place to the other within a jiffy in order to mitigate the distances had always been one of the most astounding dreams of human beings since the beginning of time. Several experiments had been conducted time and
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Ancient Chinese Inventions It is well known that China has an ancient and glorious history‚ from the feudal periods ending in 222 BC through the three Imperial and Intermediate Eras‚ up to the Modern era – over 4000 years of dynastic reigns. It may also be well known that China is the source of many wonderful and useful inventions from spaghetti to gunpowder. This list‚ however‚ will take a slightly different slant of the topic: Chinese inventions and developments that were not known to or adopted
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INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE Mankind’s interrelation with manufacturing systems has a long history. Nowadays we see manufacturing systems and their applications as systems in which goods are produced and delivered to the suitable places where we can obtain them. We are conscious of the fact that everything we consume or obtain is produced at some facilities. We are also aware of the fact that many components involve at these processes such as laborers‚ capital‚ and machines. Nevertheless‚ majority
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The Invention of Paper in China Introduction Have you ever thought what life would be like without paper? Have you ever considered how many uses there are for paper? What about who came up with the idea for paper and where paper came from? Paper is one of those objects that we just take for granted. For our lifetimes it has always been around. We have never knows what it would be like to have to document something on anything but paper. Prior to the invention of paper‚ what was used to record
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