Consider the implications to the throne of England in your answer. If I was Queen Mary I would of have had my Protestant half-sister Elizabeth executed in the Tower of London. This is because I would be doing what is good for England. When I was in power the country was under my rule and therefore that meant that my citizens had to follow my religion which is Catholicism. I executed an estimation of 300 Protestant. If I had executed my sister England wouldn’t have become a Protestant state again
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Alexander I Alexander I of Russia was born December 23‚ 1777 and died December 1‚ 1825. He served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825‚ as well as the first Grand Duke of Finland. Soon after his birth on December 23‚ 1777‚ Alexander was taken from his father‚ Paul I of Russia‚ by his grandmother‚ Catherine the Great‚ who greatly disliked Paul and did not want him to have any influence on the education of Alex. Both sides
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World War I commonly known during the time it started (Jul 28‚ 1914 – Nov 11‚ 1918) was a war in Europe known as “The Great War”. It was called the Great War because it was greater than any war that had happened before. Approximately over 8 million died‚ over 59 million troops mobilised‚ and over 29 million were injured. They also called it the “War To End All Wars.” Obviously this wasn’t correct since a certain person with a weird looking mustache who was also in this war resulted the Second World
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The Cause of World War I The presence of increased nationalism‚ imperialism‚ and militarism were the main factors resulting in World War I. Although‚ the sudden cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in 1914. The rise of nationalist views caused a divide and rivalry between various European nations. Nationalism is a dangerous form of loyalty to a country. It started with the Pan-Slavist nationalism movement‚ in which the Slavic people of Bosnia
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World War I. In this essay we are going to talk about World War I and its causes. World War I —also known as “the war to end all the wars”— was a war that started in 1914 and ended in 1919. It began in Europe‚ giving as result the blood of thousands of innocents and people implied in the war. Besides the many human losses‚ there was little loss or win of land‚ which doesn’t matter much compared to all the damages given by it. This war began with the assassination of the archduke of Austria‚ Franz
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outbreak of this war. Mainly‚ it was the expansion form of nationalism & the alliances system. Other issues played a major part too‚ such as imperialism‚ the industrial revolution‚ naval race and domestic factors. One of the main long term causes as I said before is Nationalism. Nationalism is the patriotic feeling when people believe passionately for their countries. The extreme feeling of nationalism is called ethnocentrism and it leads to fascism. Nationalism also‚ promoted the war because nationalists
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A Persian ruler was installed over every city-state that they conquered. It was this action that eventually provoked the Ionian revolt which marked the beginning of the long confrontation between the Greek and Persian empires. About BC 550‚ Cyrus I‚ emperor of Persia‚ conquered the territory of Ionia (the west coast of Modern Turkey). For all of their advances in science and mathematics‚ these well-established city-states seemed the most prominent in Greece. The people of Ionia‚ were discontent
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World War I was the result of chain-reacting events; originated from the Crises in the Balkans which led to the Collapse of Bismarckian Alliances. The creation of The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of the war. Increase in international tension‚ caused by the division of Europe into two armed camps‚ provoked fear of war and prompted military alliances and an arms race. The system maintained the balance of power in Europe after the
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In the poem Glory of Women Sassoon finds fault with women’s behaviour during World War one. Do the women in Cannan’s poem make the same mistakes as the women Sassoon describes? 700 – 1000 Both of the poems are about World War one‚ and describe the author’s thought on how women fit in the war. Sassoon writes very negatively about women‚ while Cannan is very positive. There are many reasons for this. Keep in mind that Sassoon is a man‚ who fought in the war and got wounded and treated in a hospital
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The conflicting national interests in western and eastern Europe drove the major countries to form protective coalitions‚ even with nations that had once been bitter enemies. Smaller countries were forced to choose sides‚ and by 1914‚ Europe was separated into two heavily armed camps. Any spark would have been enough to ignite the war everyone expected. That spark was touched off in Sarajevo‚ the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In an attempt to ease tensions between Austria-Hungary and
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