Absolutism was the most significant cause of the French Revolution because it forced a weak leader such as Louis XVI to have the power to ruin a whole country. Absolutism is a form of government in which the king or queen has absolute control over the land and people. King Louis XIV‚ an absolute monarch and heir‚ inherited the French throne at his grandfather’s death in 1643. He was only 5 at the time he started to rule. Louis XIV has been perceived in history as someone who is lazy‚ shy and awkward
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INTRODUCTION 1. What change did Philippe Aries describe in his work Centuries in Childhood? 2. Why MIGHT it have occurred? Cite 2 reasons (p. 369) The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce. 1450-1650 A New Spirit. 3. How did Petrarch’s writing in the early Renaissance differ from most writing from the Middle Ages? The Italian Renaissance. 4. The word “Renaissance” means “rebirth” and describes Europe‚ esp. Western Europe‚ from 1300 into the 17th and 18th centuries. Why did Western Europe need
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the Soviet Union. Both rose to power within the 1920s and 1930s to discover their countries in economic despair. Ruthless dictators‚ Hitler and Stalin achieved their positions of power differently. The people of Germany appointed Hitler whereas Stalin competed with others to aquire the role of a deceased predecessor. Both Germany and Russia had never experienced a war as sophisticated and far stretched‚ as World War One and were financially unprepared. World War One was the world’s first venture
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I. The Civil War Begins a. Confederates Fire on Fort Sumter i. Fort Sumter was a southern fort that remained in unions control ii. Lincoln declared her would neither reinforce Fort Sumter nor abandon it. 1. Next Jefferson Davis chose to attack Sumter which started the war a. Fort Sumter fell b. Virginia seceded b. Americans Expect a Short War iii. Union and confederate Strategies 2. The Union had
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involved in the war in the first place was to stop the domino theory and to prevent vietnam from becoming communist. The war went on for many years and in the end‚ vietnam still became communist. Unpopular for presidents President of American Nixon became very unpopular because of the Vietnam war. A lot of american soldiers were drafted and dragged into the war. American civilians also saw what the American soldiers did to the vietnamese civilians. No press censorship The American war in Vietnam
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1917 During the Russian Revolution in 1917‚ a successful party called the Bolsheviks came to power. The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia’s social democratic party led by Vladimir Lenin. The Bolshevik party obtained power by total drive of character and the support of the disappointed soldiers‚ sailors‚ peasants and factory workers who were organized into Soviets. They grabbed the support of these various social classes by making promises such as: giving land and power to the peasants and they
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unknown author of the Secret History‚ as quoted by Paul Ratchnevsky‚ wrote‚ “When Genghis Khan broke these proud men‚ he destroyed the leadership of the Jurkin clan and made the Jurkin people his own servants.” (Ratchnevsky‚ 55) In his pursuit of power‚ Genghis Khan removed any threats‚ big or small. This was the cost of Mongol unity. In 1198‚ Toghril created tension with Temujin by raiding the Merkits without his participation. Additionally‚ the Kerait leader shared none of the raid’s spoils‚ which
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the Scientific Revolution many great discoveries were made such as J. Kepler’s and Galileo’s findings on plant placement(1609)‚ Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion(1680)‚ and the Telescope(1609)‚ but which of these discoveries lead to greater finding of the Scientific Revolution. With the telescope J. Kepler and Galileo could continue their research on plant placement . In fact I can prove that the telescope was one of the greatest discoveries/inventions of the Scientific Revolution because of the
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a terrible thing in Europe and all it did was kill people. If you dig deeper you realize that the Black Death wound up having a positive effect on Europe’s economic future. The lasting legacy of the Black Death should really be the good it did for Europe’s economy and how it enriched lives of generations of Europeans. The first way the Black Death helped the European economy was that it led to the fall of feudalism. Feudalism was a burden on the European economy’s growth because it made it where
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition from a handicraft economy to one dominated by both machinery and factories. It started in 1760 and ended sometime between 1820-1840. One reason it helped to contribute to Britain’s expansionism was the construction of factories and thus its increase of production. Factories were located near power sources such as water or coalfields‚ and would then concentrate production in an area. This meant that many products could be mass produced. As more products
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