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    Fall of the Ottoman Empire

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    Adnan Khawaja 1EP-5 4/2/12 (Super Awesome Title) The Ottoman empire; one of the greatest empires in history. The Empire‚ at its height‚ ruled most of the land around the Mediterranean. It contributed much to culture‚ science‚ religion‚ war‚ politics‚ and the world. Its monumental fall will be known throughout history. How can the swift decline of the Ottoman power be explained? Perhaps the best way to understand how important this event was‚ there needs to be a brief explanation of the history

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    Byzantine Empire

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    CPUSH (Unit 1‚ #3) Name _____Maria Salazar ______________________ British Colonization in North America: Southern‚ New England‚ & Middle Colonies I. Settling the British Colonies A. Unlike the Spanish & French‚ the British colonies were not funded or strictly ______strictly____________________ by the king: 1. ______________join stock________________________ companies were formed by investors who hoped to profit off new colonies 2. Once a _charter_________________________

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    German Krupp Empire

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    of Krupp From the beginning of the German Empire during Otto von Bismarck’s legacy through the young Kaiser Wilhelm II legacy many improvements to the political‚ economic‚ and social level of the empire were rising. From 1815 to the rise of Hitler the industrial rise in Germany was one of the greatest behind Great Britain in Europe. So the book I chose was “The House of Krupp” by Peter Batty. For thirty years Germany was in a struggle with Britain to be the leading industrial power in all of Europe

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    Mongol Empire

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    parties; and it is a member of the United Nation. I decide to interview a Mongolian‚ because as a Chinese‚ I have never been familiar with this neighbor. My interviewee is called Anka‚ she is my good friend‚ a financial major student‚ we know each other for three years‚ and I often play basketball with her brother. Anka was sent to a Chinese school when she was 6‚ she learned Chinese for almost 12 years‚ so her Chinese is perfect. In Mongolia‚ Chinese school is very expensive. Her father think learning

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    Empire Tales

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    thought that they will marry but this never happens because the Englishman laid her. 2. The narrator awakes our interest in Lispeth by saying that she was very beautiful‚ not like others. He is describing her different from the rest and prettiest. He says that she possessed eyes that were wonderful; she was‚ for her race‚ extremely tall‚ etc. 3. In Lispeth’s opinion | The Chaplain’s wife acted… | Dishonestly and unforgivably | In the narrator’s opinion | | Dishonestly | In her own opinion

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    assess Gillborn’s (2008) claim that race trumps social class and gender in explaining the level of educational attainment in Britain. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to to fish and you feed him for a life time.” This ancient proverb illuminates the importance of education in our daily lives. Education teaches students the basic norms and values of society‚ assisting them to develop their individual identity and knowledge. In Britain‚ formal schooling is seen as a necessity

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    Demise of an Empire 07300The Demise of an Empire The Demise of an Empire Edward Gibbons‚ author of the esteemed novel The Decline and Fall of Rome‚ once cleverly wrote “the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long." The Roman Empire lasted over 500

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    European Empires in the Americans: By using the oceanic way‚ the Western Europe’s places expanded among the Americas‚ and it conquered most of the lands by the mid-19th century. British‚ French‚ and Dutch‚ which dropped out‚ are examples of colonies in the North America‚ and Spain and Portugal were colonies in the South America. The European got benefits from the movement towards the Americas. Their Atlantic states were well placed that they could straightly reach the Americas‚ which were beneficial

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    Rise Of The Mongol Empire

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    Perhaps no other empire has risen as successfully as the Mongol Empire. Prior to the empire’s rise‚ multiple tribes lived at the Mongolian steppes‚ these tribes will later unify to establish the powerful Mongol Empire by Temujin (Genghis Khan). The tribes consisted of Turkic and Mongol-Tungusic tribes‚ around 1103 B.C a dominant tribe emerged from the steppes known as the Mongols. The Mongols defeated neighboring nomads and unified the tribes before setting on their conquest of Eurasia and Iran.

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    Angevin Empire Dbq

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    UKHistory - Mateo Vinagre The Angevin Empire [pic][pic] *Source: www.newworldencyclopedia.org // eulogos.blogspot.com 1. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE 3 SELECTED ARTICLES A) Hollister‚ C. Warren ‚ Keefe‚ Thomas K.‚ 1973 “ THE MAKING OF THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE” Journal of British Studies .Vol. 12‚ No. 2 (May‚ 1973)‚ pp. 1-25 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British Studies This article

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