“Petrarch expressed in 1341: The period stretching from the fall of the Roman Empire down to his age‚ a time of darkness. an era that was ‘dark’ because it was worthless not because it was little known.” This statement is true in many ways‚ yet misleading and completely wrong in others. Two opposite ends of the spectrum are Charlemagne and the Barbarians‚ one created feudalism‚ art‚ weapons and battle tactics‚ creating a kingdom that was a beacon of hope‚ while the other was a wave of death and destruction
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The time for a leader to show his or her true worth is when they are faced with their greatest adversity. To me there are few better at this feat than Winston Churchill. For a leader to be followed they must lead. One of my favorite quotes about leadership is “A leader without followers is a man taking a walk” (Unknown). This uncredited quote is highly propagated and gets to the heart of leadership. Sir Winston Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice
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The year is 2007‚ My Chemical Romance is all the rage‚ angsty teenagers with raccoon eyeliner and skinny jeans that cut off their circulation unironically scream “teenagers scare the living shit out of me they could care less as long as someone’ll bleed”. They tease their hair like 80’s groupies‚ buy all their clothes at Hot Topic but they aren’t mainstream and superficial they are deep and philosophical they skim Dostoyevsky and make pilgrimages to Baltimore to see the shrine that is Edgar Allan
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Key: Sources for the period THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY (404BC TO 371BC) Sparta’s role at the end of the Peloponnesian war: Sparta had promised Persia the Ionian cities for its help in defeating Athens. This was a traitorous bargain‚ which subjected Ionian Greeks to Persian rule‚ and negated the victories of the Persian wars Sparta suppressed democracies within the Greek city-states and replaced these with oligarchies. This was done with force Lysander‚ a Spartan‚ was the hero of the Peloponnesian war
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studied. In this poem lord Alfred Tennyson is describing the event in the Crimean war when a cavalry regiment of around 650 horses and 650 men misheard an order “to attack the guns” meaning to get back the guns for the Turks that the Russians were stealing‚ in one valley. But the order was misleading as there were two valleys one which the cavalry could see and another of which the generals wanted the cavalry to go to which was hidden from the sight of the regiment. So they assumed that to attack the
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religions to practice their own faiths. Although the success of their military techniques was the main role in the growth of both empires‚ the Ottomans focused more on the use of gunpowder‚ while the Mughals’ growth was centered more on their cavalry tactics. The Ottoman Empire began its rise to power with the rule of Osman in 1300. It started off as a small kingdom‚ but he began to build the empire. His successors expanded it by buying land‚ forming alliances‚ and conquering others. The Ottomans’
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Kyla England Mrs. King English 7th Hour 18 January The Battle of Camden What was The Battle Of Camden? The Battle Of Camden was a lopsided victory for the British during the American Revolutionary War. Despite the proliferation of dysentery among his men‚ Continental General Horatio Gates chose to engage British commanded by General Charles Cornwallis’s force on the morning of August 16‚ 1780. This battle had many leaders‚ events‚ effects and causes that made it such a page stopper in history
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American Indians have been around for more than 15‚000 years. Although Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492‚ there were already people living in what is now called the United States. During the 1800s‚ American Indians had to deal with all the immigrants from Europe “invading their land”. The Native Americans tried to resist relocation due to the Westward Expansion‚ but because of reduced population through disease and warfare and assimilation with the immigrants‚ they didn’t have much
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The Daily Lives of Soldiers: The Union vs. Confederacy In 1861 the civil war raged out across the country. It continued until 1865. As the southern states (Confederates) tried to succeed from the northern states (Union)‚ they realized that the North had it much better. The Union had many more people‚ much more money‚ and more of pretty much everything. The only thing that the South had more of was farmland and tobacco. In both armies there were pros and cons and many differences. In the end it
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The Romans confined Acragas with four legions guided by both consuls L.Postumius Megellus and Q. Mamilius Vitulus in 262 BCE‚ and the Carthaginians endeavored to cover their ally‚ they were beaten and the city got sacked. The rough handling of Acragas portrayed to the city-states on Sicily what Rome was competent of. Segesta was again loss to Carthage‚ the city was conlusive to join the Raman cause in 263 BCE. Small level engagements came down without any conclusive result‚ and Acragas was terminated
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