Imagine you being an author and having to make a new mold for each of your book’s pages. During the Song Dynasty‚ a man named Bi Sheng‚ created a system called‚ Movable Type Printing. This system came in place when Block Printing was around. During the Song Dynasty‚ authors started writing long scrolls and books. If authors wanted to publish their scroll or book‚ they would have to invest a lot of money and time. How did the Movable Type Printing change all of this? When an invention is made‚ it
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Modern History Essay Assess the view that the collapse of the Weimar Republic was primarily due to the appeal of Hitler and the Nazi party. Although Hitler and his Nazi party were contributing factors in the collapse of the Weimar Republic they were not primarily responsible for the collapse of the Weimar Republic. A combination of the incompetence of the Weimar and Hitler’s formative influence on the population collapsed the Weimar. During the early 1920s‚ Germany was struggling with economic
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2000). By 950 AD‚ the Mayan Civilization had already collapsed. Apparently‚ no one seems to know exactly what happened. Different scholars and archeologists have come up with varied theories that are aimed at explaining what could have led to the collapse of the Mayan Civilization. The most notable ones are starvation and climate change. Archeologists have come to learn that the Maya people were in more instances than one subjected to a series of droughts which normally occurred when there was not
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Song Dynasty: The Almost Industrial Revolution Between A.D 960-1279 China entered a phase of economic and agricultural growth that was much larger than ever before. Revolutions in farming‚ ideology‚ and bureaucracy allowed the Song Dynasty to become the world’s first modern economy. This great economy resulted in high levels of urbanization and favorable conditions for technological development‚ commerce and a rural-based proto-industrialization.1 Despite the rich development and likelihood of
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useful and somewhat revolutionary‚ but both of them had somewhat different feelings of it. The Han dynasties attitude toward technology was that they thought it was very benefical‚ and they admired it. The reason this was because they though it to be very helpful in agriculture and construction purposes. Evidence of the positive effects of this can be seen in Document 4: History of the Early Han Dynasty which tells of a governer of Nanynay and as the very generous and loving person he was his policies
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longer be apart of Soviet union and they said they would establish a commonwealth and not be controlled by the Soviet Union. Once one of the most powerful and scary empires has fallen. There were a generous amount of reasons for the Soviet Union’s collapse and some of the most important were the Chernobyl disaster‚ Mikhail Gorbachev radical reforms and local nationalism. Those were
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When I was three years old I fell off my bike and broke my arm. Since then I have experienced numerous falls not all from falling off my bike. I think I may be considered a clumsy person but am still coordinated and good at sports. One time I led my softball team to the State Championships. We lost but it was a good game I threw a no-hitter and my Mom cried with happiness. I cried because the season ended. Anyway I fall a lot and lose my balance when in small or constricted areas one time I
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The Bernie Madoff fraud happened because of greed. All of the people involved wanted more and more money and eventually the system collapsed. On March 12‚ 2009‚ Bernie Madoff pled guilty to the largest Ponzi scheme in history. He successfully took $65 billion from investors that trusted him with their money. Why the fraud case was created Bernie Madoff had his investors believe that they were making a lot of money through his investment firm (Bernard Madoff Securities)‚ by creating false trade
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In 2010 a horrible rushing hurricane hit the small country‚ Haiti with the population of about 10.85 million. On January 12‚ many people were horribly affected. Houses were destroyed with winds up to 145 mph‚ and an earthquake magnitude of 7.0. There was also a storm surge included in the hurricane. Crops were pulled apart and no one ever saw it coming. The hurricane in Haiti was one of the most enormous and destructive ever there. In response of this hurricane‚ people were left displaced‚ had little
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Chilean Mine Collapse Over two months trapped underground waiting to be rescued their waiting had finally come to an end on October 13‚ 2010. Two months ago on August 5th‚ 2010‚ in the city of Copiapo‚ Chile‚ near the Atacama desert an underground mining had collapsed trapping 33 miners 2300 feet below the surface. Now‚ given under the circumstances that the mine had a history of previous accidents and deaths‚ this led everyone to believe that the 33 men underground
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