Discussion Forum Question Unit 5 What were the outcomes of the second Punic War? The second Punic war was caused by the growing rivalry between the two great powers that were struggling for supremacy in the western Mediterranean (Morey‚ W.C.‚ 1901). In the Second Punic War‚ the great Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at the hands of Rome’s Scipio Africanus in 202 B.C. which left Rome in control of the western
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horrific war start? What was the final straw? Tensions arose throughout Europe years before World War 1 actually began. A number of alliances involving European powers‚ Russia‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and other parties existed for year. The political instability in the Balkans threatened to destroy these agreements. The last straw was drawn when Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ was assassinated along with his wife Sophie on June 28‚ 1914. They were killed by the Serbian
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Mesopotamia and Harappan societies have long been compared throughout the history of archaeology. Mesopotamia‚ also known as‚ ’the land between the rivers‚’ was named for the triangular area between the Tigris and the Euphrates river‚ (Nov. 7 lecture). In recent use‚ it covers a broader area referring to most of what is now Iraq. This adds ancient Assyria and Babylonia to the scope of Mesopotamia (Schultz and Lavenda 1995:310). Parts of Mesopotamia were not inhabited at all until approximately 8000
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lasted 36 years. It all began with Colonel Jacobo Arbenz. During Arbenz’s term‚ he made it so that communists controlled key peasant organizations‚ labor unions‚ and the governing political party. Many people‚ including the Army did not approve of what Arbenz was doing. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas from Honduras invaded Guatemala in 1954. The Guatemalan army refused to back up Arbenz‚ which caused Colonel Armas to take over their government. Colonel Armas was murdered on July 26‚ 1957. Following
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caused an outburst of questions of the Japanese internment camps. During 1940‚ before the United States entered World War Two‚ they secretly helped the Allies‚ mainly the United Kingdom‚ through the Lend-Lease Act by transporting army supplies which were a hefty help for boosting morale. A year after‚ Japan aircrafts surprised attack Pearl Harbor and eventually lead the United States to join World War Two. On February 19‚ 1942 the Executive Order 9066 was put into action which made internment camps
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This American essay will show that the reasons for the American Revolution were rooted in economics. The people of the thirteen colonies that made up the then United States resented the British Government’s levies of tax without representation. The Revenue Act of 1774 was primarily the reason for the rift between the colonies and the Crown. It was the phrase ’taxation without representation’ that brought the colonists together to rise against the mother country. Often this revulsion against the tax
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pushing the world into chaos. The three main underlying causes of WWI are nationalism‚ alliances‚ and militarism. In the years leading up to WWI‚ nationalism was gaining popularity. However‚ the group to stand up for their nation‚ setting off WWI‚ were Slavic peoples in Herzegovina and Bosnia. They wished not be part of Austria-Hungary‚ instead striving to
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boycotts. Seven battles occurred in relation to the Revolution spanning from (1775-1781). The colonists finally realized they deserved independence which caused the revolution to officially start in 1776. Were the American Colonists reasonably able to declare war upon England? The american Colonists were justified in waging war against England because of the
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The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the
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What were the radical changes that King Akhenaten made? Introduction Akhenaten was known as a “heretic” pharaoh due to the radical changes he made during his reign as an Egyptian pharaoh. The people of Egypt had been worshipping many different deities all the time and Akhenaten was the first pharaoh to break the tradition by introducing monotheism‚ which was the worship to only one god. Other than reforming the religious beliefs‚ he also introduced arts of different styles to worship the Sun god
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