A result of Gandhi’s spinning program and the boycott was that the sale of British cloth in India dropped sharply. Twelve million people were forced to move according to the two new countries‚ Hindus to India‚ Muslims to Pakistan‚ in one of the greatest migrations in history. Both groups moved because they feared the fact that they could be ruled by leaders of the other faith. Their journeys were often long and tedious. Many people were forced to leave their possessions or trade them for food
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had a great effect on Earth and its inhabitants. The impact included three main stages: the change of pathway which lead the asteroid towards earth‚ the fall of the asteroid and the effects caused. First stage The first stage of the Chicxulub impact was the change in space which lead the asteroid on its path to Earth. In order to get a better understanding of this event‚ we should first discuss the origin of the asteroid. The exact cause of an asteroids existence is not yet known for certain.(2) Many
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I would say that the first event that lead to the Watergate Affair‚ was the break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters‚ at the Watergate apartment complex‚ in Washington‚ D.C.‚ in June 19721. The break-in was lead by five former employees of President Nixon’s reelection committee‚ and to this day‚ no one knows for sure what the burglars were actually looking for. The police would end up being called‚ and all five members were arrested1. As their trial proceeded in 1973‚ two investigative journalists
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During the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ the world was undergoing a key component of history‚ the age of exploration. The age of exploration marked the beginning of a globalizing world‚ and emerged as a key component of European culture during this time. Many lands that were previously unknown to the Europeans were discovered‚ though many of these lands were already inhabited by those indigenous to the nations. European missionaries and traders sought to accommodate themselves
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strategy that he used at the Battle of Alesia. I am going to start this essay by giving a short summary of Caesar’s life‚ since he is kind of important to this paper. Gaius Julius Caesar‚ a descendant of Trojan Prince Aeneas‚ was born on either July 12 or 13‚ 100 B.C.‚ in Rome‚ Italy. Now I shall tell you about the battle of Alesia. No‚ not Caesar’s strategy yet‚ just a little about the battle. The Battle of Alesia took place in‚ you guessed it‚ Alesia during 52 B.C. This battle was between the Romans
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the Roman Empire had always been based on invasions‚ and the Empire’s economy was increasing with the exploitation of the new colonies. How could Rome fall? The fall of the Roman Empire was terrible and it took Western Civilization nearly ten centuries to recover and modernize a world which could be the rival of the civilization of Rome. Historians’ ideas of the fall of Rome ranges from theories that the population was subject to large-scale lead poisoning to the notion that the empire simply grew
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“How Disco Changed the World” Disco got its start when Djs at gay Manhattan dance clubs started spinning black music in the early 70s. With such obvious homosexual and black roots‚ it is no wonder that‚ considering the time of its emergence in the mid 1970s‚ less than a decade removed from the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and only a few years after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the Stonewall riots in 1969‚ faced a hearty opposition from some Americans. On the warm summer night
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opportunities and freedom. They moved because of the difficult life conditions they had in Europe. They had little money and homes‚ but most of all they couldn’t worship God how they wanted to. The Great Famine also happened which was when all the potatoes got a disease so no one could eat them which led to starvation and death. They were fascinated by the story books they read about America and decided they wanted to move there. Some didn’t leave by choice‚ though. Others were forced to move to
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To the east of Europe was Eastern Christianity‚ the biggest of which was the Eastern Orthodoxy‚ which moved to Russia after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. To the West was Western Christianity which consisted of Catholicism and Protestantism‚ but that was not always the case as Protestantism was not much of an idea until Martin Luther a monk and priest in 1517 wrote his archbishop a letter. In which was the beginning of the Protestant Reformation
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life of India was‚ however‚ gradual. Till 1813‚ they followed a policy of non-interference in the social and cultural life of the Indians. Yet‚ changes were taking place in these fields (the social life of Indians). These changes related to education‚ the condition of women‚ the caste system and various social practices. In the 19th century‚ certain social practices like female infanticide‚ child marriage‚ sati‚ polygamy and a rigid caste system became more prevalent. Women were discriminated
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