Alexander The Great? A leader‚ a god‚ powerful‚ strong‚ cunning‚ and great; Alexander of Macedonia was all the above‚ but is he influential to the current day‚ evolving culture? Alexander was at his peak in conquest over 2000 years ago‚ so does he really still hold an impact to life and culture today? Controversy has followed these questions and many ideas have surfaced defending the belief that culturally Alexander was not that great. Alexander was deemed great because he conquered territories
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Why was Hitler able to Dominate Germany by 1934? World War one had left Germany in an unstable state. Large amounts of the state budget had been spent on war pensions‚ one of the factors contributing to Germany being virtually bankrupt. The war had deepened divisions in the German society‚ many workers were bitter because of restrictions placed on their wages. Germany could not start to recover and gain power again because it had reparations to pay due to the treaty of Versailles. The Weimar republic
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ISLAMIC EXPANDTION early Islamic Empire expanded due to conquest. As stated from Al-Biladuri‚ “The Battle of the Yarmuk (636)” “Muslim forces took control of Syria in 636 CE when they fought the Eastern Roman Empire (which included Greece)...” The Muslims were able to expand to/conquer Syria after the battle against the Eastern Roman Empire. Another way that the Islamic Empire expanded due to conquest is that many of conquered non-believers began to turn to the Islamic Religion. As stated from
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Was the Inca Empire an Early welfare state? How did the Inca government compare with that of the Aztec? The small group of Quechua-speaking people‚ known as the Inca grew to be the largest imperial state along the entire spine in the Andes Mountains. A welfare system provides assistance and help to their people normally taking care of their health and necessities. The argument made by many historians of the Aztec Empire being an early “welfare state” is true due to the care they gave
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Why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin The first reason why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin was because Stalin had an important position of General Secretary. He used his position as secretary to put his supporters on the Central Committee of the party and dismissed Trotsky’s. This helped him establish control over the party and this lead to him building a powerbase in which he was in control. Having mostly his supporters in the party helped as there were few members
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WORKING PAPER N° Mots clés : Codes JEL : 1 Was the Great War a Watershed ? The economics of World War One in France Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Matisse) and DELTA (joint research unit CNRS-EHESS-ENS) This paper has been prepared for a book edited by M. Harrisson and S. Broadberry on The Economics of World War One‚ forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. Abstract This paper presents a broad‚ quantitatively documented‚ overview of the French economy
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Rome was one of the greatest empires to ever exist. It’s accomplishments and advances in science‚ architecture‚ and government set a template for all future civilizations to follow. Rome had many great leaders that helped it become the thriving country it became‚ but one leader in particular influenced it more than others. Augustus Caesar was arguably Rome’s greatest ruler. He was the one who impacted Rome most and made it an empire that stood out in its day. But he came about in a time of great turmoil
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19th Century Tsars The nineteenth century was filled with a variety of tsars. There are two that deserve a great amount of focus: Alexander II and Alexander III. Alexander II hoped to change and resolve Russia and their social and economic problems. His son‚ Alexander III‚ was more conservative and wished to undo everything his father did. Alexander II ascended the throne at the age of thirty-seven. He was tsar of Russia from 1855-1881. Alexander II was referred to as the “Tsar Liberator.” One
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Able‚ Not Adulterous In the timeless novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the scarlet letter “A” is meant to be a symbol of shame and punishment given by the Puritan elders of Boston to Hester Prynne for the crime of adultery; when the story opens‚ the identity of her lover is unknown‚ but it is revealed later to be the Reverend Dimmesdale. In the Puritan society‚ the townspeople shun Hester for her sinfulness. The letter on Hester’s clothing intended to publicly humiliate and shame
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Roman Empire. Each one entwined with the other. In my opinion the biggest contributing factor to the fall of the Roman Empire was political. The Roman Republic government was replaced with emperors. It became a government run by a select few. Only the rich could become magistrates. Wealthy individuals could buy senate seats. Tax collectors were corrupt‚ extorting money from the poor and keeping it for themselves. The government needed these funds to pay for the costly wars. It was the effect
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