The Qin dynasty (also written as Ch ’in) was brief‚ 221 B.C. - 206 B.C‚ but much was accomplished during this 15-year period. It was the first dynasty whose emperor ruled over a unified China‚ following his defeat of seven warring states. One currency and a single system of weights and measures for the entire empire were created and a standardized Chinese written language was established. Construction of a national highway system and the Great Wall of China were begun. The name‚ China‚ even originated
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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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hundred and fifty years the Gupta empire provided political unity‚ good administration and economic and cultural progress in North India. The glories of the Gupta age are partly because of the Gupta art‚ sculpture and architecture. The Gupta dynasty produced a number of great rulers successively. They were great conquerors‚ patrons of art and science & they themselves were men of letters. Of them‚ one great king was Samudragupta‚ son of Chandragupta. After more than three hundred years of division
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The Aquino Family Servillano Aquino Benigno Aquino‚ Sr. (former Tarlac assemblyman); son of Servillano Benigno Aquino‚ Jr. "Ninoy" (former senator); son of Benigno Sr. Benigno Aquino III "Noynoy" (former congressman and senator‚ current president); son of Ninoy Agapito Aquino "Butz" (former senator); son of Benigno Sr. Teresa Aquino-Oreta "Tessie" (former Malabon congresswoman and senator); daughter of Benigno Sr. Paul Aquino‚ son of Benigno‚ Sr. Bam Aquino‚ (incoming senator); son of
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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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During the Han dynasty‚ a new philosophical age that would influence and become the center of Chinese thought‚ emerged. Confucianism‚ a philosophy that emphasized on the rightness of life‚ humanity‚ and nature‚ concentrates on moral actions and thought. There are many focuses within this philosophy‚ however‚ three major ideas present in Confucianism are the attainment of social harmony and respect‚ self-discipline‚ and later on‚ attaining an invaluable perspective for seeing nature as valuable. These
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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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Why did the Tsarist regime collapse in 1917? ‘By the beginning of 1917‚ tsarism was rotting from within.’(1) Romanov’s had ruled Russia since 1613 but people were unhappy and the Tsarist regime was due to collapse for and it was inevitable that it would happen soon‚ it finally did under Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. There were many factors as to why the Tsarist regime collapsed some of the most important were Tsar’s personality‚ political opposition ‚peasants and workers and The World War I. One of
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AD 1320. The nobles‚ who were tired of the chaos and confusion‚ raised Ghias-ud-din tuglaq‚ also called Ghazi Malik‚ to the throne in AD 1320. Ghias-ud-din Tuglaq Ghias-ud-din built a new city near Delhi‚ which was named Tughlaqabad‚ after the dynasty. He carried out military campaigns against Pratap Rudra Dev of Warangal who was defeated and his empire was annexed. Bengal was also invaded and some part of it was annexed to the empire. He introduced a few administrative reforms. He removed corrupt
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problems with the government‚ and a decline in military which made them vulnerable to any number of events that could occur. The Han dynasty over time regrew into various forms‚ while the downfall of the Roman Empire was never followed by the regrowth of the Roman civilization. The Roman Empire and Han China were once thriving civilizations‚ one reason for the collapse of both was social unrest which caused internal issues for both societies. Many things attributed to the social unrest of the Roman
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