In the year 218 BCE‚ Hannibal and his military travelled across the Alps‚ leading his greatest weapon – war elephants‚ something no one else had accomplished. Hannibal had overcome the impossible‚ training elephants who have sensitive hearing‚ to become powerful weapons during battle. Hearing the plans of Gaius Flaminius‚ Hannibal a followed‚ eventually overtaking the Roman troops. After Hannibal and his army‚ who he lead through the extensive Alps‚ earned victory during the ’Battle of Trebia’; the
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Russia Listeni/ˈrʌʃə/ or /ˈrʊʃə/ (Russian: Россия‚ tr. Rossiya‚ IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen))‚ also officially known as the Russian Federation[7] (Russian: Российская Федерация‚ tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya‚ IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈrat͡sɨjə] ( listen))‚ is a country situated in northern Eurasia.[8] It is a federal semi-presidential republic‚ comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast‚ Russia shares land borders with Norway‚ Finland‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Poland (both with
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originally called Gaius. He grew up in a camp as a favorite of his father’s soldiers. The troops nicknamed him "Caligula" after the small military boots he wore in camp. His childhood was not a happy one‚ spent in an atmosphere of paranoia‚ suspicion‚ and murder. Uncertainty over the succession of power from the aging Tiberius‚ led to a series of personal tragedies. His famous father Germanicus‚ his mother Agrippina the elder and all his brothers were either killed or starved to death by order of the
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When creating his plan‚ he created the 3 R’s. Relief was aimed to help aid unemployed Americans and make their lives easier. An example of this was when FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration which created jobs for the unemployed
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Jefferson and His Slaves Thomas Jefferson our President‚ put in the Constitution that "all men are created equal." Before‚ while‚ and after he wrote this‚ he owned more than 400 slaves. He said he wanted slavery to be abolished‚ but he has put no action into his words. He believes slavery is the biggest threat to the new America‚ and that slavery contradicts the laws of nature. Receiving 175 slaves from his inheritance‚ Jefferson has only freed seven of his slaves. Although he has bought
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“His childhood was harsh with a drunken cobbler father‚ who beat both mother and child‚ and in school was bullied as a child‚ Joseph Stalin grew up to be a bully himself” (Klehr). These events in Stalin’s childhood dramatically influenced the later events as an adult. Joseph Stalin had caused social injustice in Russia through two wars‚ during the Great Purge‚ and in the Russian government. Joseph Stalin used social injustice during World War II and during the Cold War. During World War II‚ Stalin
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held scholarly view maintains that Shakespeare did indeed write his work‚ a small but rather vocal group have questioned this conventional belief and brought forth this important question; was Shakespeare truly the author of the work we’ve attributed to him? In order to answer this question‚ it is important to first gain a basic understanding of what is currently known about Shakespeare. William Shakespeare‚ born and baptized sometime during the year of 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare‚ was brought
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After Hannibal had lead his army through the Alps and Apennines Mountain ranges and finally set foot on Roman soil‚ there was the small matter of the impending battle to deal with. Part of Hannibal’s demise was that he hadn’t accounted for the number of soldiers‚ elephants and equipment that he would lose along the route to Rome‚ and the infantry numbers of Rome itself. The quincunx was the deployment of legion infantry in segmented lines defined by weapon and the class of soldier wielding. This
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this‚ that student is ready to move on to essay writing. For a student to write an essay‚ all a student needs to do is take what was learned to write an effective paragraph and apply those same principles to a bigger scheme. Where are you? 1. How well can you write a paragraph? 2. Can you effectively write a paragraph that addresses a question or theme? 3. Do your paragraphs always have at least an introduction‚ body‚ and conclusion sentence? 4. Can you construct an introduction sentence
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this respect Columbus was just another European voyager caught up in the discovery mania. This had taken over maritime life in Spain and Portugal in the 15th century. In fact.‚ although Columbus came before vasco da gama‚ da gama’s activities and plans seemed. More practical and more fascinating to people at that time. Columbus was looking for the long -lost world of Marco polo while da gama was building upon the tradition of African missions‚ while Columbus was proposing something completely new
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