The Cultural Revolution was lead by Mao Zedong‚ chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. He wanted to renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. He feared that China would start developing along the thoughts of the Soviet models‚ and he was also concerned about his name in History. Therefore‚ he led the cities of China into a agitated situation‚ a land full of protest. Mao wanted China to have peasants‚ workers and educated people working together. Everyone was of equal class status‚ no one was
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In the Industrial Revolution‚ humans—western Europeans at first—learned to exploit coal and steam energy to mass produce goods with machines and to sell them worldwide. The Industrial Revolution began with production of textiles and eventually spread to other areas of manufacturing‚ as well as to farming and food processing. In the later nineteenth century‚ industrialization occurred on a large scale in metallurgical‚ chemical‚ and electrical industries. Once begun‚ it could not be stopped. The Industrial
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2. Agricultural Revolution Warfare did not come about in a very typical manor. The Agricultural Revolution influenced warfare in a few different ways; some argue that it created war. The Agricultural Revolution turned the peaceful hunter and gatherer civilizations into the violence thriving cultures that were encountered. “Organized” violence has also changed a great amount‚ from little or no conflict at all‚ to huge large scale wars in which hundreds upon thousands are brutally murdered. The Agricultural
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507 BIBLIOGRAPHY Adam Hand Moodley K 1993 The Negotiated Revolution. Oxford University Press‚ Cape Town. African National Congress programme. (ANC) 1994 Reconstruction and development Umanyano Publications‚ Johannesburg. Alkalimat A 1996 The Fight for Freedom as a Public Debate: The Case of Affirmative Action in the United States. In: Nzimande Affirmative Action and Transformation. Band Mpumalelo S (Eds) Indicator Press‚ Durban. American
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Keeping History In the Past I can feel my palms sweating as I make my way to municipal office‚ I hope that it does not make the matches in my hand too damp. I start to second guess myself‚ but I remember that the government needs to be stopped because it is very corrupt. Once I reach the office‚ I take the gasoline jug and pour it on myself. After I take a breath‚ I light the match.––When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire outside of the municipal office in Tunisia‚ there was a wave of revolutionary
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Appalachian Mountains. The great majority of the 200‚000 Native Americans east of the Mississippi distrusted the colonists and supported the British cause‚ hoping to forestall continued colonial encroachment on their territories.[66] Those tribes that were more closely involved in colonial trade tended to side with the revolutionaries‚ although political factors were important as well. Although there was limited participation by Native American warriors except for those associated with four of the Iroquois
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The Industrial Revolution The Agriculture Revolution was a time when people worked the land by using simple hand tools. By the 1800’s‚ most people in Western Europe and the United States lived on farms. The nation’s economy was based on farming and the making of goods by hand and trading. They lived in rural areas in little cottages lit with firelight and candles. They made their own clothes and grew their own food. The system of making your own clothes was called the putting out system. The
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The Libyan Revolution BY: Rasha25 The Libyan revolution consider as the greatest revolution of the century after the French revolution because it is start with one voice‚ goal‚ and one demand which is the freedom for all Libyans across the country. From the dictator Gaddafi and his political system‚ which is based on killing‚ tutored people who refuse that he rolling Libya for 42 years. The revolution begun in the city of Benghazi on the 17th of February‚ when a group of young people‚ goes
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The Neolithic Revolution The anthropologists found evidence in which the scholar divided the prehistory in two ares‚ the first one was called the old Stone age or the Paleolithic perio and the Neolithic period in which people made important advances in technology. Early modern humans were nomads and they lived in groups of 20 or 30 people‚ the survived by hunting and gathering‚ generally the men hunt and the woment gathered for fruit‚ grain and seeds. They made tolos from Stone‚bone or wood ‚they
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Although many think of the American Revolution as a conflict between the righteous colonists and the villainous British‚ the situation in the colonies escalated by the fault of both parties. Americans acquired much wealth during the period of salutary neglect from 1713 to 1763‚ but the British had accumulated a massive national debt during the Seven Years’ War at the end of this period. In order to reduce the national debt‚ Britain began taxing the prosperous Americans. Thus began the first of three
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