realm and to some extent for the peasants. After his death Karl Knutsson became king of Norway and Sweden as he was the Swedish anti-king before. Denmark instead chose Christian I. of Oldenburg in 1448‚ who had the support of the Hanse and led to a collapse of the Kalmar Union. A time of war and chaos followed as Denmark fought against Sweden from 1451 until 1456 and a rebellion awakened in 1464. The fighting continued until Denmark and Sweden came to a peace treaty in 1473 – again signed in Kalmar
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First‚ the Sino-Japanese war caused the collapse of the tributary system‚ the Qing government lost the leading position in the East Asia. Tributary system had a long history in China and could be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. The tributary system was a reciprocal relationship between superior and inferior comparable to the Three Bonds that kept China’s domestic society in order. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty‚ the Zhou emperor established a “feudal” network‚ enfeoffing (fengjian 封建)
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The Weimar Republic started in 1919 to substitute the German empire. The name came from the city of Weimar. The Weimar Republic had faced a lot of problems through those fourteen years such as not continuing their alliance with the winners of the First World War‚ hyperinflation‚ and political extremists. They had also stopped some of the demands of the Treaty of Versailles. The Reichstag Fire Decree was basically the start of the Communist revolution which led to the elimination of the constitutional
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Why did Tsardom collapse in 1917? In February 1917‚ all were stunned when what started off as a demonstration regarding shortages of food and fuel‚ escalated into a protest attempting to overthrow Tsar Nicholas II. However‚ nobody could have predicted what the result would have been‚ as when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated‚ there was nobody to assume the position of Tsar‚ and so 300 years of Romanov rule came to an end. Although it came as a surprise‚ the failure of the tsarist regime happened for
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ever‚ its mighty stature crumbled to the ground. Although there are many people who think that Rome just collapsed overnight‚ the reality is that the Fall of the Roman Empire was a long slow process over many years that snowballed into the eventual collapse that we know of today. There are many reasons that the glorious Roman Empire fell‚ however there are a few that stand out more important than the rest. A few important contributions to the fall of the Roman Empire were overexpansiveness‚ the invasions
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the majority in the Eastern Empire‚ with Constantine’s power and position in the east. The century following Constantine’s rule also saw the collapse of the Western Empire. These two factors‚ the rise of Constantinople and the descent of Western supremacy‚ were major aspects of the evolving relationship between Church and State. The West was the cradle of traditional Roman values‚ birthplace of the Greek and Roman Pantheon. For centuries Rome had ruled the empire from the Forum‚ and the power of
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The Great Depression The Great Depression was a worldwide economic collapse that was caused by a number of things which include: speculation in the stock market‚ inequalities in wealth‚ bank failures‚ and drought conditions. It started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest and most devastating depression ever experienced by the Western World. Before the Great Depression‚ there were few regulations that controlled the stock market. Stockholders were able to speculate and
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Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse In the case of Enron‚ it comes down to pure greed and a lack of accountability. From the top‚ there was illegal activity with Ken Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow who raided the company as though it was their own personal bank. On top of that‚ the culture of the rest of the company was to make as much money as they could and employees were rewarded by the amount of profit they could make without questioning the ethical means to do so.
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Environment An Examination of the causes and effects of Building Collapse in Nigeria Vol. 9‚ December 2011‚ pp. 37–47 AN EXAMINATION OF THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF BUILDING COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA Oke Ayodeji Department of Quantity Surveying‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Akure 234034 Ondo State Nigeria Corresponding Author: emayok@gmail.com Abstract The research investigated the causes and consequence of building collapse in Nigeria using historical data from 1974 to 2006 and also proffers
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The Ronan Point apartment collapse occurred on May 16‚ 1968 in London. The woman living in flat 90 on the eighteenth floor of the complex lit a match to begin brewing a cup of tea‚ which caused an explosion that blew-out the exterior wall in her flat. This initial explosion led to a progressive partial collapse of the southeast side of the building‚ wherein the structure collapsed from top down due to the debris from preceding floors. The collapse tragically killed four people‚ and injured seventeen
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