Geographic Luck Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? According to UCLA biologist Jared Diamond‚ some countries grew faster than others because of geographic luck. It sounds like a simple theory‚ but there is a lot more to it. The lucky countries‚ like Spain‚ were lucky enough to have natural resources‚ indigenous plants‚ and animals that could be domesticated. With all of this at their fingertips‚ they were able to stop hunting and gathering and start farming. Farming
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The Progression of Women through the 20th Century March 24‚ 2014 HIS204 There has been so much history and so many changes to our country over the last 100 years. I will focus on the changes that women have fought for and helped in making positive changes in our country. “If one compares a woman in 1900 with her counterpart in 2000‚ the gains have been significant. There were the obvious changes‚ such as the right to vote and other governmental policies supporting women
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What did it mean to be modern in early twentieth century East Asia? In the early 20th century‚ East Asia went through a process of modernisation to cope with the challenges brought by the Western powers. This process of modernisation was characterised by numerous features‚ ranging from military‚ political‚ economic‚ industrial and technological reforms to changes in the legal‚ administration‚ diplomatic as well as education and women. There were long term socio-political and cultural impacts
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Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? People come up with crazy ideas all the time‚ many of which are torn apart by scientific evidence. However‚ some ideas are crafted so precisely and detailed that they are accepted as fact by millions of people. These alternatives to accepted history are known as conspiracy theories‚ and the people who create them are of a special breed. It is difficult to imagine having the time and passion to craft an alternative reason behind many of the world’s events
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In a cultural group in the 19th and 20th the western cultures started becoming more modern with technology‚ communication and military(). This modernization had given the western culture more political power and economic success in other cultures(). As the western cultures gained more accomplishments‚ other cultures were more pessimistic about the change and progression(). Non-western cultures were already set in their own ways with their own values. They were not ready to change or modify their
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Federalists‚ as founded by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton who persist in faith like there should be a strong central government and loose view of constitution. It means they regard anything not forbidden in the constitution is allowed for federalist government. Dealing with foreign countries‚ they prefer trading and communicating with Britain since they have one of the world’ most powerful navy which is convenient for import and export. They also raised up the idea of forming a national bank which
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Up until the end of the 19th century‚ the concept of homosexuality was a scarcely known or talked-about subject‚ due to social stigmatization. However‚ lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ and transgender rights have seen rapid progress throughout the 20th century‚ marked by gradual increases in acknowledgement and acceptance of homosexuality. In the United States‚ the concept of homosexuality remained unspoken for centuries. Often times‚ anyone who was discovered to have taken part in homosexual behaviors would
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Dehumanization is the best way to describe colonialism that took place in Africa from the 19th and into the 20th century. It has a long history of oppression and effects‚ and Africa proved to have been shaped by imperialistic powers that ruled over them during the 19th and into the 20th century. This era left ideological‚ political‚ social‚ economic‚ and psychological impacts of colonialism on the African continent‚ and the people living within it shows the byproduct of what foreign authorities manipulated
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How Far Was 20th Century British Relative Economic Decline An Avoidable Failure One of the most disappointing features of the British economy since the Second World War has been its failure to match the growth performance of the other advanced industrialised countries. This relative decline started in the late nineteenth century when a number of European countries began to outstrip Britain. Britain reconstructed her economy rapidly after the Second World War‚ and in the late 1940s was still
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anarchist and communist movements as well as the Labor Bund experiences. By the 20th century‚ many of the Jewish were already holding the leadership positions in the American labor movement. Jewish founded the unions that played an important role in left wings politics and after 1936‚ in the Democratic Party politics. And have been aligning with the Democratic Party ever since then‚ throughout most of the 20th century. However by the end of 20th century and early 21st century‚ initiation were made
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